Life — February 28, 1901 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Egypt, 1900. Nato streets and turbaned Arabs Veddlii Where Mo mmedans religious Beg and pray with zeal prod Mighty pyramids, tremendous, Monuments of t Obelisks and wi Monarchs once, stupendous ; od mummies, poor, dry dummics at's Egypt! Rui As to thrill the m Sphinxes, marred and mutilated, Rameses’ statues broki Donkey boy All one's alert and smiling, y cash beguiling ; ery soul for bucksheesh pleading, urists wisely little heeding. That's Egypt! Villages of mud, poor hovels, Quaintest water-wheels, queer shovels, Everything, in fact, so curious One feels either fond or furious. That's Egypt! O'er the fi e's Vast network, Domes and minaret Of the call to prayer resoundi Hieroglyphics, strange inscriptions, Writt ‘Telling of their Or, perchance, of Ra or Isis 1 by those old vl Osiris, That's Egypt! Power and greatness long since vanished, Progress from its borders banished ; Just enough of ancient glory Left there still to tell its story. That's Egypt! Teabelle H. Ferry. USHER : I can write a novel in a month, but I can’t sell it in five years. Bicueap: Perhaps if you reversed the process you might succeed. If you wrote a novel in five years you might be able to sell it in a month. IN HOME. SUCHE WAY AS Tits, UDGE WATERMAN, of Chicago, lately remarked from the bench that though women are undoubtedly on a higher moral plane than men, they are not as reliable as men on the witness stand. They are re imaginative than mon, he thinks, and tend to believe as true, and stick to, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, things that at first they only imagined. The Judge does not like to rely on the testimony of women alone, unsupported by other evidence. There is nothing very surprising about Judge Waterman's conclusions abstractly considered, but his indiscretion in exposing such opinions in open court is astonishing indeed. Chicago seems hardly the place for him. He should move to China where he might be safo, or else to Kansas where ho might be useful. comicbooks.com