The Sphinx, Vol. 14, No. 202

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December 15, 1206.
THE SPHINX
THE ENGLISH WEEKLY
SOCIETY PAPER
ESTABLISHED 1892
Printed and Published in Cairo during the Season.
Editor G. I. SWANSON Business Manager W. E. Walton.
Contributions (of a non-political and non-controvers-ial nature) should be addressed to The Editor, "Sphinx’ Offices, Khedivial Buildings, Boulac Road, Cairo, by whom they will be gladly received.
All business communications and applications for advertising space should be addressed to The Business \ Manager at the same Offices.
Subscription for the season P. T. 25 in Egypt and P. T. 40 abroad, post free.
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LONDON CORRESPONDENT’S OFFICE:
36 New Broad Street.
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PRINCIPAL CONTENTS.
Lady Cromer’s Dispensary..........
Society Gossip....................
The Water of the Nile.............
Fresh Discovery of Papyrus........
The Nubia’s Maiden Trip...........
The Panamahat of Omar Khayyam......
The Sub-Target Rifle..............
A Summer Idyll (by Alys Hallard)..
Visitors’ Lists...................
Our Library Table.................
Fashions of the Moment............
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Egypt Exploration Fund.............. 23	;
Tolstoy on Shakespeare.............. 23
An American Experience.............. 23
Cairo Model Workshops............... 24
El Kiswet El Mahmal................. 25
Royal Army Temperance Association 26
Cape to Cairo Railway.
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London Society Letter.,............ 28
Humorous Tit-Bits.................. 29
Information for Visitors........... 30
SHEPHEARD’S HOTEL.
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The following programme of music will be played on the terrace of Shepheard’s Hotel this afternoon from 4 to 6 p.m. by the band of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons under the baton of Mr. Prosser.
Two Step	Ben Bey	Jeodogus
Suite de Ballet Coppelia		Delibes
Waltzer	God und Silber	Lehao
Selection	Madame Butterfly	Puccini
Pfeif Lied	(Come my Love & Dance	
	With Me)	Strauss
Incidental	Music From Henry VIII	Sullivan
Selection	The Belle of Bohemia	Englander
Mazurka	La Gipsy	Gamme
Regimental March. — Khedivial Anthem. God Save the King.
THE SUB-TARGET RIFLE.
The Sub-target rifle, a full description of which will ibe found on page 9, can be seen any day at Messrs. Thos. Cook and Sons’ engineering office in the Bab el Hadid.
LADY CROMER’S DISPENSARY
Though only started last spring Lady Cromer’s { Dispensary for Sick Children is doing such an ! enormous work that another branch is already contemplated.
The present dispensary situated in the poor quarter of Boulac, not far from the Cotton Mills has become a busy centre in that poverty-stricken locality and from day to day there is an increase in the number of its patients. Children of varyng shades of colour and every nationality are brought to its doors and no case is turned away. Surgical and infectious cases as well as the hundred and one diseases prevalent among children in this country are undertaken and attended, and it is impossible to estimate the amount of good that has been done under its auspices.
The number of visits paid from month to month is almost incredible: during September for inst ance no less than 2,684 visits were recorded against 70 during the first month of working; and although, naturally, this does not represent the same number of patients, over 500 new cases were undertaken during the latter months.
As is well known, the dispensary owes its existence primarily to the personal interest and efforts of the Countess of Cromer, .and never had she an happier inspiration.The scheme has also received the support of a number of Egyptian ladies as well as those of the European community, whose contributions and assistance have been of the greatest benefit to it. But naturally more support and more monetary contributions will be required as the initial scheme develops and other branches are opened ; and it is hoped that when the importance of the work is more fully realised funds will be forthcoming to establish it on a firmer basis. Money flows freely in this city of princely fortunes and princely expenditures ; visitors give plenty of backsheesh to those that clamour louldly for it,—it is our part to implore backsheesh for the babies who cannot clamour for themselves.
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PICTURE EXHIBITION.
The first picture exhibition of the season, and one which it will be hard to rival, save, perhaps, in the number of paintings on show, is that of Mr. A. O. Lamplough, A.M.S.K., which was opened last Monday at the National Hotel. Of the many artists who now visit Egypt none have been more happy in reproducing in water colours the wonderful and fascinating atmospheric effects of this country. His early morning and sunset paintings are perfect representations both in colouring and general effect of the most beautiful periods of the Egyptian day, from the picturesque point of view. In his present exhibition the picture which he has entitled “Between the Lights”, a beautiful early morning scene from the bank of the Nile near Kous, shows a wonderful delicacy of colouring, as does his larger painting “On the Nile Banks at Assouan”. For warmth of tone the “Pyramids from near Helouan”, in which one can see in the dim distance those wonderful monuments of Sakkara with a delightful stretch of deep-coloured sandy desert as foreground, would be hard to equal, and with this we would class the “Afterglow in the Desert” and “An Arab Village.” His “Fisher Hut on Lake Qurn” with its foreground of cornstalks is also especially fine, and we were very much struck by the faithfulness of his painting “Entrance to the Temple of Karnak”, the colouring of which is so truly realistic. Mr. Lamplough’s street scenes, too, have been most highly appreciated and, indeed, deservedly so, for he imparts to his pictures with remarkable effect the innumerable colourings which are so characteristic of Egyptian streets.
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Truth, the well-known London weekly journal states that there is no foundation whatever for the rumour that the Prince and Princess of Wales will visit Egypt this season, and that at present they have no intention of leaving Europe during the winter.
The Earl of Kingston is staying at Shepheard’s Hotel. He is the ninth earl and is a descendant of Sir John King, who was granted the lease of the Abbey of Boyle, County Roscommon, by Queen Elizabeth, and the drowning of whose son in the Irish Sea called forth Milton’s well-known poem Lycidas. The first baronetcy of the family was conferred upon Robert Kingston, P.C., M.P., and in 1748 the fourth Sir Robert was created Baron Kingsborough, and his brother, who succeeded him Baron Kingston and four years later Earl of Kingston. The second Earl was noted as Member of Parliament for County Cork, and the third Earl, who married a daughter of the Lord Mount Cashel, was the father of the author of the still well-known book on Mexico The vis-countcy of Lorton and barony of Erris were granted to the second son of the second Earl, and reverted to the elder branch of the family in 1869. The present Earl was born in 1872 and succeeded his father ten years ago, and in the following year he married the youngest daughter of Sir Andrew Barclay Walker. He is a very large Irish landowner, his estates covering 38,000 acres: his Irish seat is at Kilronan Castle, Carrick-on-Shannon.
Viscount Villiers, who is staying at Shepheard’s Hotel, is the eldest son of the 7th Earl of Jersey, whose ancestor, the father of the 1st Earl, distinguished himself in the Civil War. The third Earl of Jersey married a daughter of the Duke of Bridgwater, who was descended from Mary, Queen Dowager of France and sister of Henry VIII. The Earl of Jersey succeeded Lord Carrington in 1890 as Governor of New South Wales and was succeeded three years later by Lord Duff. From 1875 to 1877 the Earl of Jersey was Lord-in-Waiting to the late Queen Victoria.
Viscount Villiers’ mother, who married the Earl of Jersey in 1872, is a daughter of the late venerable Lord Leigh. Lady Jersey is famous in Society and her garden parties at Osterley have been described as rivalling the Duchess of Northumberland’s at Syon House. She is devoted to children and is the leading spirit of the Children’s Happy Home Association, whose pathetic object is to teach the children of the disinherited how to play. Before she married Lord Jersey she published some beautiful children’s hymns, and she has written several children s plays, notably The Sleeping Beauty. Lady Jersey is an admirable platform speaker and has travelled a great deal. Both Viscount Villiers and her second son are still bachelors, but her three daughters, the Hon. Mrs. Rice, the Countess of Longford, and Lady Dunsany, have made her the proud grandmother of three boys and three girls.
Sir William Ewart, another visitor to Shepheard’s Hotel, is the second baronet of that name, and is chairman of the well-known Belfast firm of merchants and linen manufacturers, William Ewart and Son Ltd., and also chairman of the Great Northern Railwa)r in Ireland. He is a Master of Arts of Trinity College,. Dublin. In
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