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How the Women Pa«* Their Time
—Entertaining Onests.
You ask if there is auy home-life in
Egypt, that old, old land of science,
legend and superstition, of sensuous
colorin g, of semi-barbaric splendor, of
Isis an d Osinis, of Cleopatra the mag
nifleent, and the mysterious pyramids
—is there any hime-life there ? No.
certainly not, as we understand it. Of
oourse, the people there must eat, drink
and sleep, in obedience to the inexorable
laws of our common humanity, but there
can be no domestic life where there is no
woman at the head of the household.
and the Egyptian women are mere nulli¬
ties. There is no middle class, so that
they are divided into the two class ex¬
tremes of high and low.
The high iifeis that of the hareem, as
they call it, and not harem, and is much
better known throughout Europe than
that of the lower-class Egyptian women. fre¬
During my residence in Cairo I was
quently admitted to the hareem upon
«ie invitation of the mother ot the
viceroy of Egygt, Ismail Pacha, father
of the present pasha. Ismail was the
viceroy, or second in distinction to tho
sultan, of Egypt. The pasha that was his so
afraid of being poisoned and for that
mother cooked all he ate,
purpose she accompanied him where
ever he went.
Poisoning is the favorite method iu
that country in getting rid of an obnox¬
ious person. It is much more speedy and
infinitely less expensive than a state trial.
With the exception of the viceroy’s
mother I never know a woman of high
position to know anything at all of the
culinary art. I used often to spend a
whole day in the harem and never saw
any of the women doing anything useful.
They are very seldom taught to read or
write. Conversation is generally carried
on with a foreigner in French through
the aid of an interpreter. I soon picked
up enough Arabic to converse with them
without aid. They live imgfcat splendor
and total idleness. They have no pic¬
tures in their palaces and possess no for¬
eign or native literature. They never
sew, nor even embroider, and their only
recreation consists in seeing girls dance
and in listening to some barbaric music,
or to stories told them by an old woman
in true Arabian Night’s style. The
Egyptian women arc fully developed at
the age of thirteen and old at thirty. Their
forms arc usually most exquisite until fat—
that bane of both men and women in high
life—de troys the delicate beauty of their
outline. The upper portion of their faces,
eyes, brows and forehead are wondrous
ly lovely, but the lower part, below the
nose, is ugly, badly formed and heavy,
as a rule. Fortunately for them, they
are enabled to conceal these defects by the
veil they weai. So far from being dis¬
contented with their lot, the women of
Egypt have the utmost pity for their
civilized sisters, especially in matters of
heart. They say our husbands can care
nothing for us, or they would not allow
other men to look upon our faces, and
think that civilized women possess no
modesty to go unveiled. To amuse
them, I told them once of the great sur
plus of female population in the New
England states—largely maiden—and of
the struggles so mauv of our girls there
aud elsewhere are ob.iged to undergo in
order to earn their own living. They
laughingly quoted a proverb answering
to ours of half a loaf beiug better than
no bread at all, aud declared that the
fractional possession of a husband was
better than no husband at all. They
were surprised, even indignant, that we
should call ourselves civilized and yet
make laws cempelliug a rich man to
have but one wife, when he might main
tain fifty or more, and so husbands and
support for our hard-working single
women would be provided.
As men do the' cooking and the main
t^see^why^hem^s' Wept no "employ cases,' ment* 1 for
women. iu rare their to
telligence does not exceed that of an
American child tew or twelve vears of age.
much s‘Xr; stm °h»ve Wd™'*"
indispensable adjuncts of the contmu
ance of the race.
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. half in height. They sit like r lk f r/out dolls
.round them on cushions. The old, in
active and fat, once down, have to be
pulled up. They serve but one dish at
a time, and that la a 'ar/e eirciffpr sal-
vci* o» ’ -:** or Fotjit 6 r •<
,
They hav * no forks, knives or spoons
but each dins two finders o —i the ri-dit
hand inlo tho dish and take, o:,t
the meat having been cut into small
fffeces in the kitchen.
If they wish to particulaly distinguish
a visitor they select a dainty piece ami
place it in her mouth, it would be au
insult to betray any feeling but delight
at such a mark of favor. A great dish
for a feast, and one which few Christian
women have ever tasted, is that
of a lamb roasted whole. After the
manner of a nest of Chinese boxes, e ch
smaller than the other, the iamb is stuffed
with a whole turkey, the turkey with a
chicken, the chcken with a pigeon, the
pigeou with a quail, the quail with abe
cafica, the smallest bird known except
the humming bird. It resembles our
reed bird in taste and makes just a
mouthful. The lamb is roasted over a
slow fire until it is cooked to shreds and
melts into one, as it were. The Egyp¬
tians have no systematized way of eat¬
ing, continual no set time for meals, but keep up a
they have munching of sweets, of which
a great variety unknown to
us, and all sickeningly sweet to a Euro¬
pean palate. They use honey for sugar.
In an Egyptian kitchen there is a total
absence of what a civilized cook would
consider indispensable in the way of
cooking utensils and appliances. There
is no dresser upon which to arrange the
dishes; there is no sink nor running
water, nor anything like our cooking
stove or range, but upon ine side of the
kitchen there is erected a structure of
masonry which resembles a great square
shelf with deep drawers, the openings to
which arc on the top. This queer objectis
the Egyptian range—the openings are
charcoal furnaces, and as they are dis¬
connected, a cook can have a dozen fires,
or only one, as he desires. I have often
been astohished at the excellence and
delicacy of a dinner cooked upon one
of these rude ranges .—Rote Eytinge, in
Neu> York Star.
The Progress of Storms.
The way to learn about storms is to
study the weather maps published and by here the
signal service at Washington,
are some simplified examples for you to
begin on. To make a special case, let
us suppose that you live in Western New
York.
The first diagram shows the condition
of the weather Friday morning. New
York is at that time covered by a clear
sky, except in the west, where the thin,
high cirrus streamers, that run before the
storm, have made their appearance, and
the winds are very gentle, with a touch
of east in their origin. But at the same
hour the observers in the Ohio valley re¬
port cloudy weather, with southeasterly
winds, and in Iowa and Minnesota there
is rain and snow. The storm is there¬
fore already on its way from the far
West, following the common winter
storm track over the Great Lakes toward
us. Moving with an ordinary express
train rate of about thirty miles an hour,
the edgo of the cloud-disc spreads over
us by afternoon, and the area of snow
fall, enlarging as evening sets in, reaches
us during the night with increasing
strength in its easterly winds; m the
meantime, the high cirrus clouds, run
ning ahead of the storm, have advanced
over the Atlantic coast,
On Friday morning the storm-centre
was in northwestern Iowa; in twenty -
four hours it has moved six hundred and
fifty miles to the east-northeast, and on
Sunday morning it will be found in
Maine, having progressed nearly a thou
sand miles on the second day of our ob
servation. As the centre advances, it is
accompanied by the whole system of
shifting winds, clouds, rain and snow,
and it is on the knowledge of this
i general principle that weather predic
tions chiefly depend. ‘lai^^
and
weather make their appearance on the
j “mSppi
have a tine Saturday afternoon for sleigh
d“f;th while we in New York are still un
r now.cloua r
.
finow ^as ceased falling there, although
...tinupn in Maine aud the lower
DuringSaturday nifW .be
.- “‘““'“VieTe n j 0 _ ft clear, cold sky bv
,torm moves in its way
far northeastward across the Atlantic to
ward Iceland.— Youth's Companion.
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Fire has not left the hearthstone of one
farmer in Georgia since it was kindled
with flint and sfeel in 1842.
_ I eter , the Greats boots, the ., original . . .
model of the ‘‘Wellingtons,” are still
exhibited as curious relics in St. Peters
burg,
Blinders, which are a torture to horses,
are said to have been invented for the
English nobility to put their coats ol
arms on.
Intense thirst is satiated by wading
in water, or by keeping the clothing
saturated with water, even if it is taken
from the sea.
A Washington correspondent has just
discovered that the Father of his Coun¬
try was particular about his dress, and
had the initials “G. W.” cast on some oi
the brass buttons which adorned liia
coat.
A peculiar black paper of Siam and
Burmah, made from the bark of certain
trees, is used very much as slates in Eu¬
rope and America. The writing on it
may be rubbed out by the application ol
betel leaves, just as slate writing is
erased by means of a sponge.
In some parts of the African coast the
■hark is still worshiped and offering!
of poultry and goats are made. Once a
year a child is sacrificed to propitiate
it. The little victim is bound to a post
in the sands at low water, and, as the
tide rises* mingles its shrieks with those
of its mother until devoured by sharks.
Tobacco used to be regarded prescribed as a val¬
uable medicine, and is yet by
f/hvsicians in occasional cases. Before
the discovery of chloroform it was used
in strangulated hernia to where give complete
relaxation, and in courses mercury
was the chief medicine it was added to
avert the after effects. As an ingredient
in asthmatics, cigarettes, with bella¬
donna, stramonium, etc., it is entitled to
a part of the credit of the remedial re¬
sults.
Forecasting Tornadoes.
If the knowledge of tornadoes gained
by solar observation were combined with
that gained by the signal of service, a great
advance in the science meteorology
might be made. It may yet be possible
by combined effort to locate a tornado
path before the destruction occurs. The
only case in which the forecasting of a
tornado track would have been accurate
was that which destroyed Rochester,
Minn. Upon the previous appearance of
the same solar storm a train of cars was
9wept from the track not far from
Rochester. At the next appearance of
the sun storm by the sun’s revolution
Rochester was destroyed. tornado occurred Upon the
third appearance a to
the north of Rochester. But this coin¬
cidence was not sufficient to establish a
basis for locating tornado determine paths, al¬
though it may help to a
method .—Rochester Democrat- Chronicle.
From the National Capital.
The Washington Post says: We ad¬
mire the stand taken by numerous emi¬
nent physicians in changing the mode of
treatment of coughs and colds, and pub¬
licly endorsing Red Star Cough Cure
because it is efficacious, free from dan¬
gerous ingredients, and without morphia
or opium. This excellent remedy costs
but twenty-five cents.
Little boy, beware! The good, kind
lady who gives you gingerbread with to day, her
when you come over to play
little boys and girls, may be your
mother-in-law some day in the rosy
future. — Merchant-Traveler.
Young Girls about
are at a critical period when they are
maturing and developing into women. The
lack of watchful care at this time may result
in fixing irregularities upon delicate organs
and entailing a long list of “female weak¬
nesses." All this may be avoided, and the
young woman come through this period
clothed in all the beauty and strength of a
perfectly healthy organization by the aid of
Dr. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription," by pre¬
pared especially for female troubles one
of the most successful physicians of the day.
Chinese tea is cultivated in Desha county,
Arkansas.
dreadful disease catarrh, and used everyavaij
able medicine which was recommended to me.
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Miss Sarah Hitchcock, of New York, is set
i do- ~ wort h $12,000,000.
Relief is immediate, and a cure sure. Piso’s
Remedy for Catarrh. 56 cents.
th-fp d.eurrhi?’'** of Mr. IGr,*""- Ti-cM
Pt,„.U .1 U , A.fc tv K.VIi f«.« ?G >A. tr J
j is waU-known Russell operator 8age Wall street, who
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“ K« ne r a ^y considered as “up to snuff,
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called at his office and asked for a package ox
i) r . gage’s Catarrh Remedy. He discovered
his mistake, but he made no mistake in the
article called for. This Remedy, when op
plied with Dr. Pierce’s “Nasal Douche, wilt
surely and rapidly eradicate the most aggra
rated case of catarrh, with all its unpleasant
and dangerous accompaniments.
The last pitch-hole in life’s highway—the
grave.
j , wis __ commencing ^ MtMr the h for of Ely’s seven Cream year.
previous to months use It has done for
.balm, some five ago.
me what other so-called cures have failed to
do—cured me. The effect of the Balm seemed
like magic.—Clarence L. Huff, Biddeford, Me.
In London political circles liberals and con
seivativeh do not speak as they pass by.
Now is the time to prevent and core Skin
Diseases, and to secure a white, soft and beauti¬
ful complexion use “Beeson’s Akohatio Axu*
Sulphur Soap." 25 cents by Druggist, or by
mail. Wm. Dreydoppel, Philadelphia, Pa.
Fred Ward says bis living expenses in
Ludlow street jail are $40 per week.
Mensman’s Peptonized beep tonio, the only
preparation of beef containing its entire nutri¬
tious propei'iies. It contains blood-m&ldng,
force generating and life-sustaining properties;
invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, also, in and all forms of general debility;
all enfeebled conditions, whether tile
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over¬
work or acute disease, particularly if resulting
from/pulmonary Co., Proprietors, complaints. Now York. Caswell, Sold by druggist* Hazard d
Elizabeth Garrett, of Baltimore, has a fortune
of at least $12,000,000.
* * * * Male weakness and loss of power
promptly Dispensary cured. Boek, Medical 10 cents Association, in stamp*. otH
World’s
Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
Good company and good conversation are the
very sinews of virtue.
Why go limping around wifli your boots run
over, when Lyon’s Heel Stiffeners will keep
them straight?
Falsehood is a hood that covers many crooked
heads.
If afflioted with sor« eyes use Dr. Isaatf
Thompson's Eye Water. Drugging sell it.
It is stated that there are 13,000 policemen
in London
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The proprietors of Ely’s Cream Balm do
not claim it to be a cure-all. but a sure remedy
for Catarrh, Colds in the Head and Hay Fever.
It is not a the liquid or a It snuff, but relief is easily ap¬
plied with finder. gives at one*.
Sold by all druggists. Price 50 oents. By man
60 cents. Ely Bros., Owego, N. Y.
In Boston the richest lawyer is Sidney Bart¬
lett, set down as $12,000,000.
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