Matrimony In Egypt

As yon look ont of your hotel window in Cairo, youwill see a native nmsician satinteriDg by, twanging the Inte of the country ; then a sound like the tinkling of baby cymbals informa yon that the sherbetly is going his round, with hia hnge glass jar slung at his side, from whioh he dispenses (to the nnwary) sweet, sticky drinks of licorice jnice or orange sirnp in the brass sancerswhich he perpetnally clinks in his hand. Late at night the sounds of eastern life invade yourpillow. The distaut throbbiug of the naggarah tells yon that a wedding prooession is making its tonr, and if yon have the curiosity to get up and sa'lly out yon will be rewarded by one of the characteristic sights of Cairo, in -which old and new are oridi biended. Probably a circumcision is combinedvith the wedding to savo expense, and the prooession will be headed by the 'barber's sign, a wooden frame raised aloft, folio-wed by two or three gorgeously oaparigoned camela - regular stage proporties hired ont för such occasions - carrying drummers, and leading the way for a series of carriages crammed with little boys, each holding a neat white handkerchief to his month to keep out the devil and the evil eye. Then comes a closed carriage covered all over with a big caehmere shawl, held down flrmly at the sides by brothers and other relations of the imprisoned bride ; then more carriages and a general crowd of sympathizers. More rarely the bride is borne in a cashmere covered litter swnng between two camels, fore and aft ; the hind camel must tuck his head under the litter, and is probably quite as uncomfortable as the bride, who runs a fair chance of seaslckness in her rolling palanquín. In the old days the bride walked through the streeta under a canopy carried by her friends, but this is now quite out of fashion, and European carriages are rapidly ousting even the camel litters. But the cashmere shawl and the veil will notsoon be abandoned. The Egyptian woman is, at least in public, generally modest. She detecta a stranger's glancewith magical rapidity, even when to all appearance looking the other way, aud forthwith the veil is pulled closer over her mouth and nose. When she meets yon face to face, she does not drop her big eyes in the absurd fashion of western modesty. Shecalmly tnriis them awav from vou. It is much