. The rulers of the Mediterranean. arf and thelong tassel streaming out behind. As they yelland bellow, donkeys and carriages and peoplescramble out of their way until the carriage theyprecede has rolled rapidly by. Only princessesof the royal harem, and consuls-general, and theheads of the Army of Occupation and the Egyp-tian army are permitted two sais; other peoplemay have one. They appealed to me as muchmore autocratic appendages than a troop of life-guards. The rastaquouere who first introducesthem in Paris will make his name known in aday, and a Lord Mayors show or a box-seat ona four-in
. The rulers of the Mediterranean. arf and thelong tassel streaming out behind. As they yelland bellow, donkeys and carriages and peoplescramble out of their way until the carriage theyprecede has rolled rapidly by. Only princessesof the royal harem, and consuls-general, and theheads of the Army of Occupation and the Egyp-tian army are permitted two sais; other peoplemay have one. They appealed to me as muchmore autocratic appendages than a troop of life-guards. The rastaquouere who first introducesthem in Paris will make his name known in aday, and a Lord Mayors show or a box-seat ona four-in-hand will be a modest and middle-classdistinction in comparison. These camels and sais are but two of the thingsyou see from your wicker chair on the marbleterrace at Shepheards. The others are hundredsof donkey-boys in blue night-gowns slit open atthe throat and showing their bare breasts, andwith them as many long-eared donkeys, renderedeven more absurd than they are in a state ofnature by fantastic clippings of their coats and. m CAIRO AS A SHOW-PLACE 119 Strings of jangling brass and blue beads aroundtheir necks. There are also the women ot Cairo, the en-slaved half of Egypt, who have been brought,through generations of training and tradition, tolook upon any man save their husband as theirenemy, as a thing to be shunned. This hasbecome instinct with them, as it is instinctivewith women of Northern countries to turn tomen for sympathy or support, as being in someways stronger than themselves. But these wom-en of Cairo, who look like an army of nuns, arevirtually shut off from mankind, with the excep-tion of one man, as are nuns, and they have notthe one great consolation allowed the nun—theyhave no. souls to be saved, nor religion, nor abelief in a future life. There was a young girl married while I was inCairo. The streets around the palace of her fa-ther were hung with flags for a week; the gardenabout his house was enclosed with a tent whichwas worth in money twenty t
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