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CAIRO THE LEADING CITY IN THE MOHAMMEDAN WORLD. ALL ABOUT EGYPT'S GREAT METROPOLIS AS IT IS TODAY. (Copyright, 1!?7. by Frank O. C?rp?nter.) CAIRO. Egypt. STANT> with m* on the Hill of the citadel and take a look over Cairo. We are high al>ove the River Nile, and far above the minarets of mosques "which rise out of the vnat plain of houses below. We are as hl?rh up as the tops of the Pyramids, which stand out upon the yellow desert away off at the left. The sun Is blazing, and there Is a smoky haze over the Nile valley, but It Is not dense enough to hide Cairo. The city, which lies right under us, is the larg est on this continent, ar.d one of the might iest of the world. It now contains a mil lion Inhabitants: and. in size. It Is fast ap proximating Hellopolts and Memphis in the height of their glory. Of a.l the Mohammedan cities of the world. Cairo Is now growing the fastest. It already has only WO.OOO l>-s? people than Constantinople It Is four times as big aft Damafnia. > igt:t times us big as liagJad ami fifteen or twenty tlmea the size of either Mer a or Medina, where the Prophet M? ammed was born and died It has inure than do;i1>led Its population since 1 lust visited It and with my giasa I can now hi- tin ? iffoldlng about the new buildings which are rising here and there over the plains. The town now cover? an area equal to fifty quarter-section farmrf; and Its bulld lr^s are so crowded together that they form an almost continuous structure. The only trees to be seen ire those In the new French quarter which lie6 on the outskirts Mohammedan Cairo. The most of the city Is of Arabian archi tecture It Is flat roofed, and is made up of yellowish-white buildings so crowded along narrow streets that they can hardly he seen at this distance. Here and there, out of the field of white, rise tall, round ?tone towers with galleries running about them. They dominate the whole city, and under each Is a mosque. Those mosques are the Mohammedan churches There are hundreds of them In Cairo, and not a few have been recently erected. Every one has Its worshipers, and upon every tower, five times a day. the shrill-voiced Arabian priest calls out for the people to come to prayers. There is a man now calling from the mina ret of the Mosque of Sultan Hasan, which Is Just under us. The mosque Itself covers more than two acres, and the minaret is ? bout half as high as the Washington Monument. The priest Is standing on a gal lery. with scaffolding above and below htm. His mosque is being repaire<J, and $200,000 will be spent upon It when the present plcns are completed. Just r.ext it is another mosque, recently begun, and all about us we can see evidences that Mohammedan Ism is by no means dead, and that these people worship God with their pockets as well us with their tongues In the Alabaster mosque, which stands my back, fifty men are now praying, anjl In th" courtyard a score of others are washing themselves before they go In to make their vows of repentance to God and the Prophet. Not far below me I can see the mosque el-Azhar. which has been a Mohammedan university for more than a thousand years, and where something like H.UUU students are now learning the Koran and Koranic law. During my stay in Tunis the Mohamme dans were celebrating their I.ent or Rama dsn. and not a one of tho vast population of Tunisia, who believe In the Prophet, would take a bite to eat from sunrise to sunset, and the more devout would not even swallow their spittle. Here at Cairo I have seen the people preparing to take their pilgrimage to Mecca. Vlch and poor starting out on that long Journey into the Arabian desert. At present many go part of the way by water. The ships leaving Alexandria and Suez are crowded with pil grims. and there Is a regular exodus from Port Sudan and other places on this side of the Red sea. They go across to Jeddah and there lay off their costly clothing and make their way inland, clad only In aprons ap.d a piece of cloth over the Ipft shoulder. This is so of the rich and the poor. Many of the former carry gifts and other offerings for the sacred city, and such gifts cost the Eg)ptlan government alone a quarter of a million dollars a year. Not only the khe Anecdotes Concerning Well-Known People The Burden. "The late Senator Pettus." said a Selma man. "came to view with a little alarm In his latter years the immense and unre stricted Immigration to our shores. "Walking one evening with him, I point ed to a foreigner marching along at the head of his family. Tfce man was tall, erect, robust, a superbly handsome fellow. " 'There,' I said, 'Is a fine figure of an Immigrant. See how ho carries himself.' "Senator Pettus laughed bitterly. " 'Yes,' he said, 'and see how he lets his wife carry everything else.' " Billiards Defined. John Morgan, the champion pool p'ayer, told at a dinner In St. Louis u billiaid story. "Milliards Is a tame atntisement beside pooi, Mr. Horgan began. "Two Hindoos wciv once discussing the game in Calcutta, and 1 think that their Idi a of it was pretty near the right one. 'What Is this white man's game of billiards that I hear so much about?' said the first Hindoo. 'l>on't you know?' said the second. No Tell me ' Well.' said the second Hindoo, 'bil- i llards Is a very simple game. Two men armed with long sticks poke at a bud en a green table, and one says "I> " while the other says "Hard lines".' " Hannibal's Mean Man. "Coming home on the Minnetonka," said n S' Joseph girl, "we took up a collection for the widows and oiphans of sailors, and Mark Twain prefaced this collection with u talk on meanness. He urged us to be generous In our offerings?not to be like a certain mean old man from Hann'.ba!. " 'The meanest man I ever knew.' he said, 'lived In Hannibal. He sold his son in-law the ha'f of a very fine cow, and then j refused to share the milk with the young f> low on the ground that he had only sold him the front half. The son-in-law was also Compelled to provide all the cow's fodder and to carry water to her twice a day. Finally the c ow butted the old man through a barl>ed-wlre fence, and he sued his son in-law for damages.' " A Cool One. Senator Albert J. Hopkins was praising the Imperturbable coolness of a young Chi cago politician. The boy reminds me." said Senator Mop k.tis, "of one of the great Disraeli's col leagues. "This man. In the course of his maiden spe> . t m parliament, paused to yawn ?" 'He'll do, said Disraeli, chuckling." 1 An Oath's Value. Clarence S Darrow. the lawyer and es sayist. discussing the Haywood trial. In which he played a prominent part, said the other duv: "Some of the evidence in that trial was so transparently fals^- that it reminds mo of a case that came off in Alabama a few j ears back. "One of the witnesses in this case was an extremely ignorant man. As Ills testi mony progressed his ignorance became so shofkingly evident that the Judge, looking sternly down at him. said: " T.ook here. sir. are you acquainted with the value of an oath?' "The witness answered anxiously: " 'Jeilge. I hot* I am. That thar lawyer on vol left hand gimme six dollars to sw'ar agin the othej sid *. Thet's the correct value of an oath, ain't It, jetlge?' " dive, but the Mohammedan rulers of the Sudan, send gifts, and I understand that the new railroad which has been recently completed from far up the Nile to the Red sea is now giving special rates to pilgrim age parties. It is by no means safe to look upon Mohammedanism as a dead re ligion. A Religion of the Lips. And still 1 sometimes wonder whether this Mohammedanism is not a religion of the Hps rather than of the heart. These people are so accustomed to uttering the words of prayer that they forget the sense. The use of the word God1 1b h?ard everywhere in the bazaars. T e narrier who goes about with a plg upon his back.Angling his brass cups to announce his business, cries out. May &d recompense me'." and his customer re plies as he drinks by giving him a copper in ?h. name of the Lord The emonaae p^ flier who carries a glass bottle as Dig as S TS. 5KTK .'.Tro'uV^vi ' star -Aiiih learned two f jve ^ee enough which mean: _ May <^> * pesters mo gffi=3?3&s5| and goes awaj. through Cairo and The tourist who passes througn ^ that ?tays at the big hotels is ap (.<hr.a>:an one. the cltv is fast becoming a Christian hI Is told that the Urltlsh are Its real gov Be 18 lolu i up drives over asphalt Streets Umd wUh the fine buildings of the m?nv forpifinors lie finds theni & rutiful S or It may b. in apartment RIVALRY OF AR FOR THE F *? Institutions For Protection of Young Girl Students Supported by Rich Society Women. - Special Correspondence of The Star PARIS, August 23, 1907. AN American girl can study In Paris without danger. The perfected means exist. Four great concerns, called American girls' clubs, will take the lamb, house her. feed her. tend her. watch her. r"..r - -"... t:.';?1" ? ??? must be sustaining wealth behind it. Why, the every-afternoon high teas alone would dissipate the profits of a business *nter P T^e old-established Girls' Club of the Rue de Chevreuse has always been sustained by Mrs Whltelaw Reld. Its present man ageress Miss Moffett, a delightful maiden lady from New England. Is her sole repre sentative. When the garden s photo graphed, she sends a copy to Mrs. Reld "Would Mrs. Reld like this?" "Mrs^ Reld would not approve of that!" The Chevreuse is a perfect realization of Mrs. Reld's Ideas. Once It was a great hotel. You see how two wings form a court. B^h old trees behind, two stone pillars and a high Iron grille give entrance to an old-world garden. Here the lambs sport of afternoons, to the perfume of buttered toast, samovar tea, waffles, layer cake?what do 1 know. Tea Strong enough to make them go out saucy. Latin Quarter Clubs. Mrs. Whitney Hoff-daughter of the late Detroit millionaire, and wife of a Standard Oil magnate In Paris-dominates in the j same way both the Young Women's Chris tian Association of the Rue de Turin and the Students' Hotel of the Boulevard St. Michel Both the Rue de Chevreuse and the Boulevard St. Whel are In the Latin Quarter, but the Rue de Turin can count as Montmartre. the graduation quarter ci art students become painters, a very up-to-date locality. | The fourth of these great concerns is Holy Trinity Lodge, in the Rue .Pierre Ni cole, beyoifa ine Pantheon-agaln the Latin Quarter?conducted by the Holy Trlnty t Episcopalian) Church of the Avenue de i 1'Alma. . . . - The Rev Dr. Morgan, cousin of the finan cier years ago gave up banking for the priesthood, and as Mrs. Reld and Mrs. Iloff dominate their respective girls; clubs, so l)r Morgan dominates his church and lambfold. Indeed, the latter Is called a parish house and has something of a con ventual touch. Recently they rented from the French republic a confiscated shady earden that, until the nuns' expulsion, had belonged to the Carmelites of the Rue Val de-Grace. In one corner, beneath lordly trees is a mysterious stone trap, it gives entrance by shivery winding stairs, down down into the earth, to an ancient under ground Chapel, dating from the time of St. When the girls have tilled their visitors with cake and tea, they will light houses such as would not be out of place iii any city of Europe or of the United States. He does his shopping* In modern stores, and gradually conies to the conclu sion that the Arab city Is fast passing away. This Is not so. Cairo Is a elty of the Egyptians. Not one-tenth of Its Inhab itants are Christians, and It Is the eight or nine hundred thousand natives who make up the life blood of this municipality. They are people of a different world from ours, as we can see If we go down and stroll through the city. They do business In different wAys, and they trade much the same now as they have been trading for generations back. Their stores are crowded along narrow streets which wind this way and that, so that one might lose himself In them. Every branch of business has Its own section. In one place there are nothing but saddlers. In another only shoemakers, and in another the workers In copper, sliver an-1. brass. The booksellers and bookbinders have a street of their own; and so have the clothiers and tailors. Nearly every store Is a factory as well, and most of the goods offered you are made in tho shops. I have been In most of the grfat ba zaars of the world, and I know of none more Interesting than those of Cairo. In them thousands are buying and selling, and each narrow street has a stream of color which flows back and forth all day long. From the top of one's donkey this stream is red and white upon a bed of black and blue. The red is the Ibz caps and the white is the turbans, while the blacks and blues are the gowns of the people below them. The sides of the streets are bright with the goods hanging out of each little shop, and the whole is like wandering through a world's fair in which the exhibitors are dark-faced, turbaned. long - gowned men. who sit cross-legged on earpets. with ull the . treasures of the orient piled about thpm. Although the foreigner and his inn ova- _ IERICAN GIRLS' < AIR INMATES, ^ TEA IN TI candles and take you down to dream of bygone things. Dietetic Repartee. If there seems much cake and tea, remem ber It Is free. When the Rue de Chev reuse began giving hot muffins, the Rue de Turin replied with waffles. The parish house went them one better with a transcendental species of jam-puffs. And the Students' Hotel took up the gauntlet by offering cocoanut layer cake from Margaret's. Next Holy Trinity I^odge astonished them all by opening a dispensary with trained nurses. Let any English-speaking girl fall sick In Paris? and se need but notify Holy Trinity I.odge. Now. you do not know Mrs. Wnitney Hoff if you imagine she would not have some prompt answer t"b the dispensary. "What, my girls be forced to traverse half Paris to bog for a hottle of pare goric?" she exclaimed. And within thirty days the Young "U omen's Christian Asso ciation was endowed with a visiting doc tor, and the Students' Hotel set up one of the best-equipped dispensaries in all Paris. Indeed. Mrs. Quimby, of Frank Leslie's, who is something of an expert on these matters, declares there is not a smarter little hospital even In New York. Mrs. field was naturally bound 13 fol J 4 1 UV.T* IN CjX W>Vp name/d "California" AND JiTS- v3A"DT)L"EL Nurr&T^-R^WA^" 07 X" tions are almost everywhere In evidence, native Cairo Is much the same now as it was in the days of the Arabian Nights^ These people believe the same as they ciia then: they wear the same costames, the women are as olosely veiled, and all the characters of the days of HaroJn A1 Raschid are to be seen. Here die vision ary Alnascher squats In his narrow, cell like store, with his basket of glass before him He has d long water pipe In his mouth and is musing on the profits he will make from peddling his glass, grow ing richer and richer, until the khediye will be glad to offer him his daughter In marriage, and he will spurn her as she kneels before him. We almost expect to see the glass turned over as it was in the story, and his castles in the air shattered with his kick. Next to him is'a turbaned Mohammedan who reminds us o. binbao the Sailor, and a little further on is a Barmecide, washing his hands Htth in visible soap In Invisible water, and ap parently inviting his friends to ^orae and have a great feast with him. Here two long-gowned, gray-bearded men are_ sit ting on a bench drinking coffee together: and there a straight, tall maiden, robed in a gown which falls from her l:e;td to her feet and with a long black veil cov ering all of her face but her eyes, looks over the wares of a handsome young Syrian reminding us of how the iiouris shopped in the days of the past. Oriental Cairo is a city of donkeys and camels. In the French quarter you may CLUBS IN PARIS /HO LEAD LIVES IE QABDtN OF "THE RUE DE CHE1 MBS. WHITELAW BEID. low; so that now a sick English-speaking elrl in Paris has this advantage over her well sisters, that she is not asked to pa> her board. ? Hospital Competition. . In a word, the competition to 1111 up those flower-decked white spread cases, with their bright new thermometers, barometers, gas ometers. is eo keen that they have actually been known to take In a drooping English governess after she had attempted suicide! tfy this time the rivalry was open and /declared. . ... Mrs. Hoft had bought outright the build ing of the Students' Hostel. She could alter It at will. "I want the parents of my girls to know they can get all the advantages of Paris within the four walls." she is reported as saving- and part of a third-floor wall was torn out to make the north light of a vast atelier for drawing and painting. Here artists of reputation dally criticise girls work, as in the academies. Models, etc., are gratis. Everything is gratis. So it stood at the close of the spring; but I hear that, with the autumn, all the four American girls' clubs-not forgetting the old-established but slightly difT?rent Amer ican institute of Mrs. Smedley-wUl be giv RESULTS BENEFI OF LUXURY Of iv\m^ have a modern cab for 15. cents a ride, or you may Jump on the electric street cars and go a long distance for from 2V4 to 5 cents, or you may even hire an auto mobile to carry you over the asphalt. The streets of the native city are too narrow, for ?uch things, and you are crowded to the wall again and again for fear that , the spongy feet of the camels may tread upon you. You are grazed by loaded donkeys, carrying grain, bricks or bags on'their backs; and the donkey boy who is trotting behind an animal ridden by some rich Egyptian or his wife calis upon you to get out of the way. The denkey is the best means of getting around through the native city and the f heapest. You may hire one for two hours for 20 cents, for a half day for 50 ot 60 cents, and all day for a dollar. Every riding animal is numbered. My donkey of today was nraied "California," and the number on his saddle was 077. Some Queer Citizens. The characters of these bazaars are odd to am extreme and one must havo an edu cated eye to know who they are. Take that mail In a green turban, he Is looked up to by his fellows. Your dragoman will ,}ell you that he has a sure passport to heaven, and that the turban is a sign that he has made the pilgrimage to Mecca and thus earned the right to the colors of the prophet. Behind him comes a fine-featured, yellow-faced man in a blue gown wearing a turban of blue. You ask your guide who he may be and are told, with a sneer, that he Is a Copt. He Is one of ttie Christians of modern Egypt, and has descended from the fanatical band which Charles Klngsley describes in his novel "Hypatla." Like all of his class he is intelligent and like most of them we'.l dressed. The Copts are among the shrewdest of the business Egyptians, and with the prosperity now common in the valley of the Nile, they are growing tfREAUSE." ing gratuitous vocal and Instrumental music lessons. All for $5 Per Week. I say gratuitous, but I ought to say in clusive. In all these girls' clubs board and loding, including washing, begins at $5 per week; and as washing is Included, so are the afternoon teas, the dispensaries, the drawing and painting ateliers, the music lessons and the use of bath tubs. L>o not snoer at this last detail. Learn that elsewhere, in all Paris, bath tubs are ex clusive. extra. A girl student who wants to keep clean must learn to take a bath in her wash basin?or go out with a hand satchel to a puiblic bathhouse and follow, perhaps, the last French party who took a bath on a doctor's order. Five dollars per week for everything In Paris! Here we strike the,question of a student girl's expenses. I will tell you how a girl kept house during two years, cultivating her voice and taking stage lessons. She is now somebody In American operette. She had two scarcely furnished rooms and a kitchen for $H0 per year. Smartening them up with odds and ends, she rented out one room to a girl friend for $3 per month. So" she was almost rent free. Her expenses for provisions, which she cooked herself, with her coal and petro leum, did not exceed $2 or $3 per week. She did her own washing in the kitchen. But They are money lenders and hL ^ speculators. Many of them have offices under the government, and not a few have amassed fortunes. Some of ^"dim6 yery religious, and some can recite l'l hca.rt ,They are dlfferent from their neighbors In that they believe In hav , ing only one wife. th?, crowd lp these streets Is by no I means all men. There are women scat tered here and there through It, and such women! Talk about your peek-a-boo walsu! ?VII v I? K Is have Peck-a-boo veils. All !r? wl,h.,he exception of their eves are hidden, and one has to look close through the silts In their veils to see whether their sklnj are white, black or brown. They are by no- means good looking of th*yh*7Z lhrough the streets. Those hi,.!0^ U glasses are clad In cloaks of b ack bombazine made so full that they hide every outline of the person. Some have their cloaks tied In at the waist and u^in ??k 'black bed",lckB walking off v^ .i .V ?er.e ?"e raises her skirts, and which fall tn'h? has ?n ?>uave bloomers wmch rail to her ankles; they makn me hv f? 0t, t,he /?urteen-yard breeches worn wear ?5wns?of i?ier8' The women wear gowns of blue cotton, and a single gown and veil make up a whole costume Some of them carry babies astride their hips or their shoulders, and the babies are often as naked as when they were born. Not a win ?tv, Ia~.les have eunuchs to go about hit nl!1"' latter are as black as my tif i .US FOUr as ,he Sphinx. They, are ? ?L 1 Joting women from flirting as j they shop |n the bazaars. "'rung, as Nearly all of the women have their faces covered In the oriental quarters vou will Wasanfs f1"' th* v">' "?weA "fThe ? ''as not a long veil of black crepe six inches wide reaching from lust below her eyes to her ankles -rhil . ion>r' wl'lch covers the bridge of the CIALLY 1 $5 PER WEEK Munificence of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid and Mrs. Whitney Hoff Provides For Fair Students. teasha'nnn?>lei!'Ure- no daintiness, no smart eas, no cheery companions ready found lng house betn better off a board ^ rfrls Warding housess are not cheat) even when unattractive. I know ?f ??? day' ^rhev1? b?ai"d a"d lodK'R& f?r fl a AmerJan *irl \^rcely P!act-'s {?r a pretty ?lay ftl l, ,v h,'n you ?et W 8 francs a ?a>" *, , t there. you see, the price is up, and you have not much for your money. Potatoes and Spinach. I.hf.Ve' lndeed- v'lsit,'d a very correct and not disagreeable boiled-beef pension In the St. Sulplce quarter, fit enough for our girls and much patronized by knowing tourists -whose prices are slightly In excess of $1 per day; but first course soup and second course soup m?at go against the American stom ach, which craves other vegetables than po tatoes and hashed spinach. You see. therefore, where the girls- clubs come in. Where the cheap pension offers a measly box of a room, soiled carpet, rickety wood j en bed and moldy curtains, the girls' clubs brand new. entice the girls with airy, spa clous rooms, oear-tinted walls, brass bed [ steads, smart jvrltlng desks, big closets boudoir bureaus, lace curtains, screens chaises-lounges, waste-paper baskets and [running hot and cold water! If there were ^anything like this in Paris for men at $5 j per the present writer would quit keeping ! house In Neutlly! YdU see. now, how an American girl can j study In Paris without danger. Who said anything of danger? I I did not. I do now. Out of the girls" clubs there is danger to our girls in Paris STERLING HEILIG. ! The Frogs. From Life. j Proceeding with my studies of nature, I could not help but be struck with the j idiocy of the frogs. They were much alarmed by my approach, and leaped fran , tleally, but instead of leaping away from me, they leaped toward ine, many of them, and .even against me. | There was one frog, especially, who, in the most fatuous manner, hurled himself against my legs repeatedly. "Why are you such a fool?" I asked at j length. , "That Is easily answered," replied the frog, with admirable courtesy. "You are perhaps not aware of what Is nevertheless a fact, that American frogs, with the ex | ception of a few old families In New Jer 1 sey, are descended from the frog who would a-woolng go, whether his mother would let him or no. In other words our idiocy is hereditary." Is It not singular? If I Were President. , From the Broadway Mnffazlue. "If I were President of the United States." said the Politician as he button holed the Idiot on Broadway and tried to involve him In a discussion of the affairs of the nation, "do you know what I would do?" "No, I don't." returned the Idiot. "But i for the good of the country I hope you'd resign." n"f\, T!r ?r mr*H "r " *"m'n ?ro blackened with koh;. , lVf) ,M!( ^ 'lack eyelashes. and one ofirti Imagine* hem beautiful until The *lnd blows ,i?;n veil and you find out the contrary. The New Cairo. In striking contrast wlUi Egyptian Cairo ? s the new European flection which has grown up on Its edge. That part . f the fity H-having a boom. aftd lots whi h sold f"r 110 a square >ard tw? yoars ago are now bringing $.10 There nre Instance ,1,.? STi* ?n!.zuvlK^n t,n" * ruin* that the poorer EurapMni are movfiw out Into the suburbs, and this ciu promts. ? to have a suburban development Jum have about our American townI Kuropean Cairo Is a city of wld.- street, paved with asphalt. It Is a elt\ of elect flni. sanitary improvements It has W^th ?r m^7VUrrOU,ld'<1 hV ?'"--l. n.s ,111,.J tVr .for plants and trees. and its U t f ^fi ?'a,rry goods which would S u readily in Paris or New York On . can buy i most anything from anywhere In ?(,.? world at these stores. This Is esjw clally ? >f such wart s as are In demand bv the t'our d/erof anrt ""Vm do m"h,l?* cias,/ The ped dler of antiquities and fine china, of Jowelry and of oriental rugs ls also here in all Hs1 business" d"Hn* ,he " '??< r>o!?!r? '",18 niHny ,Joctorf and d ?ntl?t? T'ia ??- r'WWtsr ?f club" Ithl.?H ,u w'f,paP*rH libraries ami' It has its dally Journal'- in which .vou ca? read the telegrams In Fr?i?. English apd Arable; and it his lis lotid' ?*T^?r tor r'bo cr> ^ ,ets- M> shoes aro blanket! ??v??r v morning by a boy wearing a turban and his charge Is two cents a shine ' d airo has a jrood postal system witli a ur hundred's'of8^>oiiH' Um'al da" n una reds of policemen, both on foot ?.n/* center5?.^ A ,,ollcernan stands in tlia ,. / every street crossing to see that rliiht Imf'ih ,i" left Instead of thi' right, and there are enough poller in everv section to make life and pruperty .!?., ^ Cairo's Blgr Hotels. Calrp is one of the winter resorts of th? wHh E 'S ,hr?nged durin? ?he season with Europeans and Americans. There are thousands of our rich cltliens here every >ear and they leave millions of dollars In Egypt Thirty thousand tourists visited the valley of the Nile last winter and It iw?$o? 8ay that "?* le" upwards^ of SfvM ^'th 'JiT? ?aP"al and they pay b|? ldends. . Shepheard's, which N s.? known everywhere, has 400 beds Th? Savoy h^ 180. The Hotel Continental 300 guests aZtron?P?t'aCe ?a5 accommodate 400 guests at one time, and the \i*>na 5?S ,V UndSr the Pvramlds has l^ r^' ss^vka '*Asrift? 2?s^3? am no" tt^Sting^^ adjust the l? clo?edWand <?,nner. be?inB- I And the doors closed, and have to go to the grill room or five dnlftra f?r whntever 1 order Four vT dollars per person per day for room class Eevnt?Rnht, V*|Ual pric0 at lhe ,ir9t" ciass Egjptlan hotels, and this is no or v'Uley The'nri UP Bnd down ,h'? Nlls 4?i #&. prices are somewhat less dur ing the summer and fall; but at such times many of the hotels a? closed, he Zl\ of them running only during DecenVber January, February and March Uetember' , *ll?y People come here to spend the win have iTa"y ?nd !t 80 eold that they ha\e to leave. It seems to mc that the advantages of Cairo as a health resort have or" so8?haet,y Ifoverv,rate<I For "he last yel? r so the city has had an epidemic of fernKaUnd?there^kb0ne fC.Ver durln* the win chl'ld who h?L8 iC/rCe'y a mHn' woma" or better ttpW. ? FRANK O. CARPENTER. Humorous Stories About Popular IVTen A Press Crl-tlclsm. Lord Northcllffe. the English editor, re cently settled for 1250.000 a libel suit brought agralnst his newspaper by the Lever soan firm. Lord NorthcllfTe often visits America, and he admits that many of his( best .loumalistlc Ideas are the fruit of th<?a visits. to'rA,V?lfvarr,? Bald a New York edi tor the other day. "Lord NortholllTe Is a' severe critic of the American pr.-ss One of his strictures Is about our padding. He -ays that when something striking in the news way turns ud we Invariably print columns and columns about It. page after! day about U though In real- ' r . L ? we may onIy have enougli facts ror ten or twenty lines. "At the Press Club on Nassau street he ? ?ii?ne ni*bt a Btorv on this head, i . .vBa'lL l'iat a r?P?rt?>r came wenrily into the office and approached the city edl o fTTdeslt wi\h a disconsolate air. ?? J.'L-' 881,1 the city editor, eagerly, what did vou And out about Senator Blank s nlleeed divorce?' 'Nothing,* said the reporter. 'No facta whatever?' " |Not a single fact.' ." 'Denied everywhere?" 'Everywhere.' " 'Senator deny It?" " 'Yes.' " 'Wife, too?' " 'Yes.' " 'And no rumors?" " 'Not a blessed rumor.' "The city editor elghed. 'Well,' he said sadly, 'keep the story down In that case to three and a half col? umns.' " Nothing Doing1. Harrison Grey FIske discussed at a din ner In New York the art of acting. "I believe." said Mr. FIske. "In subtlety, and restraint. A nod. a shake of the head, a silent pause?these things are often more effective than the most violent yelling and ranting "Life is like that, subtle and silent. W hat. for Instance, could be more expres sive than this scene, a scene without a spoken word, that I once witnessed in tho country? "An undertaker stood on a corner near a noble mansion. He elevated hl? brow* hopefully and Inquiringly as a physician came from the house. The physician, com pressing his lips, shook Ills hesd decidedly and-hurried to his carriage. Then the un dertaker with a sigh passed on." No Nature Student. To Dr. John B. Wilson, professor of psychology at the University of Chicago, has been imputed the statement thut sea gulls have an actual language. , Discussing this statement the other day. Dr. Wilson laughed and said: "I have recently made a study of sea gulls, but I must admit that I nave not gone as far as Prof. Garner with his monkey?1 have not as yet compiled a gu.l dictionary, nor do T see much pros pect of my ever doing so. ? "But I have studied the g-ulls inti mately. and I have found the work in teresting and valuable. Is not nature study, indeed, always interesting and valuable? You know what happened to the big game hunter who neglected It? "Therg was a big game hunter out after lions. He found a lion, emptied his gun at it. and missed. The enraged beast gave chase, and tho poor hunlcr fled madly. "And as, fleeing, he reached the jun gle, he hesitated and said dubiously to himself: " 'Oh. why can't I remember if it ls a lion or a tiger that can't climb a tiee'." "This piece of ignorance, I regret to say, cost the hunter his lif?"