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...soldiers, commanded by Azmi Pasha, were starting for Cairo as an escort of the Holy Carpet, the immemorial piece of rug that covers the Kaaba in the Mosque at Mecca. Because of friction between Sultan Ibn Soud and King Fuad of Egypt, the Holy Carpet had not gone to Cairo for two years, but this year things looked better; the King of Egypt had a chance of being made Calif of Islam; the rug started on its journey, accompanied by the soldiers and followed by a brass band which blared out, with wandering horns and cymbals, an Egyptian marching song...
...heredity, had twisted the limbs and belly 'of the male child, 18 months old-had screwed the face of his sister, 3, into a last grimace. The woman, one Mrs. M. D. Tilman of Chicago, had finished the bottle herself. She lay dead, face down on a soiled rug, while the breath of a spring evening ruffled her skirt and played with the fringe of the curtain. Clutched in her hand was a copy of Ibsen's A Doll's House...
...from him 6-2 on the courts of the Red-White Club of Berlin and was ahead in the second set. Clearly, nobility must begin to play. Leering at the commoner who had presumed to confront him, nobility began to make loud sneers about lackeys who had exchanged the rug-beater for the tennis racket and would be more at home serving meat balls than rubber balls. Young Wetzel turned red. Nobility curled thick lips over lupine teeth; articulated his taunts very clearly, so that the gallery could hear him say that the club must be called the Red-White...
...been turned to an educational problem as old as Robin Hood-the schooling of England's 100,000 or more gypsy children. The Surrey County Council opened a peripatetic school, with a master and mistress, to teach them, besides the three R's, crafts like basket-weaving, rug-making, woodworking, gardening. The "school house" was pitched in open country near a large gypsy encampment and though attendance was distinctly voluntary, 40 pupils enrolled the first...
...LOVE OF THE KING?Oscar Wilde?Putman ($1.50). Oscar O' Flahertie Wills Wilde once meditated writing a novel "as beautiful and as intricate as a Persian praying rug." He would spend hours at the Middle Temple and in a punt on the Thames absorbing atmosphere from a certain distinguished barrister, a Mr. Chan Toon, whose "long and luminous" converse ran much on the exotic customs of his native country, Burmah. Mrs. Chan Toon was a childhood friend of the poet, and one day, having neglected to acknowledge a book she had sent him, he despatched to her, not a novel...