Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1885 — Egyptian Women on the Nile. [ARTICLE]

Egyptian Women on the Nile.

The only primitive costumes we’ saw was on the first day after leaving Assouan on the left bank—the country of •the Kalabseh—where the young ladies simply wore round their loins a fringe composed of thin leather stripes. The married ladies were clothed to the feet Curiously enough, the women on both banks hate or dreads being looked at through a glass. One I saw run away, screaming as hard as she could; others at once cover their blanching faces with their hands. It is a fact not generally known that dark-skinned ladies blush white. Others again anathematize you according to a fashion extending all over the East and even among the Greeks of Constantinople, by holding up their hand, palm outward, and jerking it toward you. This, I Untold, means, may five devils seize you. If they wish to emphasize the spell, they put up ten fingers. Others sAy this is a protection against the evil eve. At some villages, encouraged f>y the soldiers who flung biscuits from the decks, lads and -girls ran frantically along the banks screaming for them, to the great indignation of the land owners, over whose crops they ran riot. In vain these colored gentlemen stood in the way, flinging mud and stones at them. They scrambled by, and continued the chase its long as biscuit was flung, or until dead beat. — ~' 1 —As jfe* SHE wmjt to the roller-skating rink. And put the Hilders on; A strap or two about her "hoe. And then she’s off and gone. She slid, she slode, she gild, she giode, Unheldby fear or fetter. But at test the gentle maid whs “throwed," And the roller-skates upset her. Wk accidentally overheard tho following dialogue on the street yesterday: Mftn. Smith, why don’t you stop that disgusting hawking and spitting? Smith. How can 1? You know I am a martyr to catarrh. J. Do as I did. I had the disease in it* worst form, but I am well now. v' N. What did you do for it? J. I used Dr. Huge's Catarrh Retfiedy, It cured me and It will cure you, i tj,; S. I’ve heard of it, and, by Jove, Til tryw. ; J. Do so. You'll find it at all the drug stores in town. “What did you say your friend is, Tommy?" “A taxidermist.’' “What’s that?” “Why, he’s a sort of animal upholsterer.” - ,®W.-