Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1892 — Better-Looking Girls at Home. [ARTICLE]

Better-Looking Girls at Home.

It is narrated of a distinguished American journalist that when he visited Egypt for the first time he rode out one morning to take a look at the pyramids Mounted upon a bony Assyrian mule, he had inspected these mammoth chefs d’ceuvre of the lost arts, when suddenly he was brought face to face with the sphinx. “Gosh!” said he, in tones of astonishment. “What’s this?” “That,” explained Hassan Ben Ali, the faithful Mameluke guide, “that is the famous sphinx, emblazoned in song and illumined in story.” “Humph!” said the journalist, after a critical review of the placid dame’s features, “so this is the sphinx, eh? Well, I don’t think she amounts to very much; we’ve got girls in our office one hundred per cent betterlooking than she is!”