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EOViT, In dUuia with England,
hai been one Dior at tit fucui
of world ittoutluQ, it ibi bin
bin many timet In tin ility
couturlM that niukt up uoit of known
history.
American who visit Egypt know th
country chiefly from tin city Hind
point Thry so through the eyet "f
tin Mtremcly Jillte dragon.an who
escort them about tfii streets of Cairo
or Alesandrla, The man who iwtnti
In tin iuu on bit tiny farm la an n
tlrely different crenture. HUl seal of
living li of th men iictt.
Th peasant population huddle In
vllliiKo within th counuee of four
mud walla, nomei which literally do
not furnUh them wttb roof over their
brads 'wretched, cabins Improvlaed
out of Nil mud wlndowles at well
M roofless. No modern pott and
pane, nn of th rontrlToncel and
ihlfti of modern timet that go to
ward rendering l)fo caay and comfort
alio, and which 'enabl th foreman of
a taction gang bn an American rati
ronu to b better wanned, lighted,
nd rvd wltlr new than wai Queen
Elisabeth of England,
W ar accustomed to think of
Egypt In tenna of eymholi th
Bplilnx, Oalrla, th ryramtds. Tin
country bat been happy hunting
ground for .th arcbeologlste. and
their revelatlone turn ua back tlirough
th atiyitni of tlm to th contempla
tion of mysterious figure of th paal,
whether a tacred bull or King Tut
ankhamen. A country of wonder, no doubt:
but th wonder of wooden It not th
nclent relict dug from th earth, nor
th mighty work of ' man'a bandt
reeled upon III lurfac, but th anil
Itself that longiih atrip -of green
fringing th tllrer Ml for th better
psrt of on thouinnd tulle.
Nature hat dealt In niggardly fuah
Ion with th land of Kgypt. Th coun
try poaneiM't no copper, no Iron or,
no f ureal a, no precloue minerals, and
no good ileum con I. It I fairly exact
to remark that th country lacks all
th prim prerequbtlte of modern In
dustrialism. Agriculture la virtually
th aol aoucce of , pnilnnnl Wealth,
Sut even In tlili field th country la
txtremcly limited.
Only Strip of Habltabl Land.
Egypt la .praclletill mlnleaa and
only ono-ti4r flflh of th Innd Is
capnhl of ctHvaUon. These fertile
regions er anntiwtotied In between th
Arabian and Libyan deserts. Whit tn
area of Kun't.'iiM rnclmltng th 80
dnn, la 8.'ii.iiiii'aMoilli-a oriwhont
eight time (be slto of the (tut of
lvnnajlvsnl. bnlr a llttl mora than
12,010 square.) mile ar capable of
cultivation. . t
Over tlila relatively (mail atrip of
habitable Inucl.lhe population swarms
torn 1,1(10 M pi Kutr mile, where
th population, of Itelglum, th dent
est In Europe, Is C"2 to th iquar
tn 1 1 a. let, desiilt all Uila, Egypt I
' probably th niot perfect and exten
air farming lbomtory thai th world
ha yet seen.
from an tgrlcuhurnl ttondpolnt,
th country present t iectacl of
three uniformities climate, toll,
molstnr. Except for th region near
th north const, th country It rsln
lest and frosta art unknown. The
toll It th in m, formed by th tcdl
ment from Jlt water.
Now, uniformity I precisely th
thing which .Mh Amorlcnn furmer
lacks, Th' main factor In crop yield
I th weather, and th weather It
alwayi th unknown quantity. Th
Egyptian ioIvm hi farming . equation
by knowing th valu of It before b
ttarta, , . ' ' -.
With th American furmer, agricul
ture la more or lea of a gamble with
nature, whereas the Egyptian farmer
bet on ceatnlnly. Farming, there
fore, In Egypt comes nearer to being
tn exact tclence than In any other
Iniportnnt country In th world.
Whsr Man lurpastsd Nature. '
In ordinary speech, ther I alwayi
a tendency. to peraonlfy onture, to
olnorve Hint nature 'oei this or that
or workt according to tome well
ordered p'an or design. While the
Plaided Steamer Coat
I Bids for Summer Favor
' The plaided rtcamer cont puis In "Its
bid for fnvor, supported by teverul of
the Important tiiitiiufiictururs, Id one
Inilauc, those large plulded conti
were unllned nud tdvocited.it an tx
tra casual type of Summer sport coat,
tultuhl for tny wnrdrohe, Itcporti
of smart out-of-door fashion from
.England persist In highlighting check,
Wo In coati, In sweaters and tven In
accessories.
on th Nil.
thought It not exact, we ran with
torn measure of truth ipeuk of na
ture's intentions about this plunet and
th life which nourishes upou It
aurfneo. For example, w may ob
s.!rv with trulb that nature never
Intendud Egypt, comparatively
tterllt and drought-beset country, to
support from III soil Its present popo
lallon of nearly 14,000,000 people.
The Ingenuity of man, however, bat
contrived by art to supplement tbt
gift! of nature. Nature ordnlneo! that
th Nile should overflow one a year
and flood the agricultural plulna of Ita
valley, beatowlug at once th twin
gifts of moisture and fertility. When
th flood ha passed end the wtter
bat tubalded, the furmer towt bit
aeed and growt bis annual crop. Tra
ditionally and historically. It la either
a feast or afamlne la Egypt Tor a
brief aeaaon tbt abounding flood, to be
succeeded for th balance of the year
by biasing suns ind killing drought.
Tbt Ingenuity of man hat harnessed
the great liver by holding back the
flood of waters during th freshet
enson tnd doling out these but-
banded tuppllct during the lean
moutha of the year. Through tola
device, streams of living water can
bt carried every month of the year
te tM roots of growing plant.
The "great ttone dam it Aswan la In
reality the keystone of modern Egypt
This hug rampart of masonry, which
retalna a 00 foot bead of water,
weighing 2K),0U0 tons, I pierced at
It foot by ISO elulce-gatea. Theee
gules, kept wide open when the in
nuul flood It coming down, late In tbt
iummer, ire gradually closed when
the crest of the flood hs basaed. By
January th reservoir It full and re
main to during February and March.
When th supply of water begin
to fall, In th lut spring tnd etrly
summer, sluices ire opened tnd stored
water added to the normal discharge.
Great barraget ire thrown tcroet
the Ml further downstream. These
are masonry obstacles laid across the
river's course to raise the water In
the stream to the level of the Irriga
tion canals. Tht Mlt barrage, a few
miles below Cairo, It capable of rait
ing tht water level for the Irrigation
of the entire delta by 11 much at 20
feet
Crept Requlrt Lot of Water,
I'erenulul Irrigation, as has been ex
plained, men 11s an all-year supply of
water to-the Egyptian firmer. Tbt
huge volume of water required for
Irrigating the porous tolls of the delta
under the blatlug semltroplcal tun
may be put it about 20 tons per icr
per dny at t minimum. Cotton-growing
require! about 23 torn of water
dally, wbll rice culture require 00
ton. '
Man and bla work lit Egypt bava
existed only by grac of the river.
There haa alwayi been something
mysterious about th annual rise of
th Ml. Buck a teemlngly flight
thing 11 a reversal of the winds that
aweep In summer across equatorial
Africa from tht Atlantic would cut
off the anuual flood and lay waste
the richest agricultural valley tn tbt
world. -
But while tht innual flood hav
varied from tlm to tlm In volume
they have never In recorded history
been entirely cut off. The apparition
of the annual rise of the Nile la on
of nature' certitude, is well estab
lished ind it universally accepted at
tht riling and setting of tht tun.
Tht ancient Egyptians were con
tinually casting snout for in explana
tion of tht innual flood, but they
never succeeded In penetrating to th
heart- of tht mystery. There it no
longer tin tllghteit mystery about a
subject that baffled the Intelligence
of the ancient world. The Whit and
th Ulue Mle, meeting at Khartum,
form th great River Mle. The tourcet
of tlit Mlt ire, therefore, dual the
one constant th other varluhle.
The White Ml find a catchment
basin In a series of lake, of which
the greatest la Victoria, In equatorial
Africa. This las I soma 2,500 mile
by river from where the great ttream
debouches Into tht UedUorrnnean.
Clocks in Colors
Clocked ttocklng. In , which thn
clock art worked out In color, art
most attrnctlva and art popular with
many women. They serve to complete I
a costum well when th clock matche
torn color In It Tli shadow clock 1
again tought -after Hhls season be
cause of It subtle blending.
Face relit must match their hntt,
nys Paris. A greet turban adde un
usual charm to a act by a doit)
green veil.
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MSMTnaANIAN CftUISI
rraafc C. Clark, Ttasae M4g., N.T.
Tht More tht Iau
Editor (rejecting manuscript) Ton
ae. a ttory bit to b Just o to get
Into our magaxlne.
Would-be Contrib Well, what's th
matter with tblt one!
Editor It' only so-so. Boston Hag-
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If out It always tbt onderdog, he'd
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Engl'uh Women Lie
Longer Than American
Statistic (how that English women
live longer on the average than Amer
ican women. English men and Ameri
can men have about Hit tame ex
pectation of life.
Hollo Drlten, statistician of tbt
United Statet public health service,
finds that the expectation of life wblcb
decrease gradually the older tht per
son, Is higher for English women than
for American women at average age
between ten and eighty yeart.
Tht difference between tht two
countries In tblt respect ranges from
about four yeart In young woman
hood to lost than one year tt tht tgt
of eighty.
This meant that tht Englishwoman
of twenty may expect to live to bt
tlxty-nlne, while ber American titter
may expect to reach tn tgt of only
tlxty-four or tlxty-flve.
No attempt ta made by the public
health service to explain why this
difference In longevity exists between
the female populations and not be
tween tbt males.
Chance Brought Wild
Rice to United State
Illce came to America by accident In
the year 1004 a rice-laden vessel from
Madagascar bound for Liverpool put
In to Charleston harbor tn a raging
storm. Tbt captain, noting that tht
land and toll near Charleston resem
bled that where tbe rice wat grown,
gave tbe governor of the colony a
handful, trtjng btm that It might grow
If planted, relates the Washington
Star.
Tht governor planted tbt rice and
aevoral months utter harvested tbt
first crop ever grown tn America.
Since that time rice bat tteadlly ad
vanced until now tt la a leading prod
uct of tbt southern state. It first
spread Into Oeorgtt from the Caro-
llnaa, and -wttb tbt beginning of tht
Civil wr It entered Louisiana, now tht
leading rice (tat of tht Union. It
gradually found ttt way to Florida,
Mississippi, Alabama, Texaa and, final
ly Into Arkansas. Later Its cultlvt
Hon wot tried with toccett In Call
fornta,
That Kind
Harold Llttl girl, yon bava mad
me happy. Here is the ring.
rhylllt It that ttt Don't I get any
crackerjack with ttt
Bo live that yon will make anoth
er man glad that there in mors of
tbt human race besides himself.
.tltail i7DQHT vooj to a
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Sees J ax a Empir'$ Nero
Nero tnd bit fiddlt were no mora
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companions, according to Sir Henry
Coward, a prominent English divine.
Luxury and rnlgar pleasure seeking,
be taya, brought Home down Into tbt
dust, tnd jazz, bt declares. Is trend
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minds of th people away from tlgb
thinking and spirituality. Besides,
dark-skinned races that bold the
whites In awt will cease to think of
tbe European tt a superman, and
when that state of mind comet to put
England'i bold on Itt myriad subjects
In Asia and Africa will be broken one
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