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| A BEDOUIN WOMAN OF THE DESERT - The Syrian
woman at the left was one of the unfortunates who were detained in
Chicago on account of the commercial failure of the Wild East
entertainment of the Society Hamidie, which, after attempts in the
old ball park at Wentworth avenue and Thirty-fifth street, in the
Garfield Park horseracing grounds on the West Side, and in a stockade
at the west end of Midway Plaisance, went into the hands of Mr.
Catlin, and, later, of Mr. Byrne, as Receiver. By the Receiver's
efforts, the starving and suffering Arabs were paid enough money from
the sale of Arabian horses and animals, to get
them back on the Nedj,
where, it is said, all Chicagoans will be roasted in a fire pit, if
they be ever caught crossing the Arabian Desert. We elsewhere show
pictures of Bedouin women in the upper
classes, and may note that
wild and pastoral life does not emancipate the race from caste and
class difference.
A HINDOO JUGGLER - There was, on the faces of the Hindoos, an
expression of reserved pride, and the celebrated Maharajah of
Kapurthala, who was so long at the Fair, bore almost exactly the
facial appearance of our juggler. He was one of several who had
their little house in a conspicuous position at the northern entrance
to the street from the viaduct of the Illinois Central Railway. This
"Sahib" lost caste by coming to Chicago, but as Mohammedanism is
gaining ground in India, and the English are breaking down caste
laws, the penalty will be nothing that backsheesh will not pay. |
