Tut-Ankh-Amen, he of Egypt thousands of years ago, has created more of a stir as an exhumed entity than probably he ever did as an enthroned one. The weekly illustrated papers from Home are all busy adapting the ancient Egyptian style of things to fashion plates and schemes of jazz dancing, while in the United States his popularity is. even greater. There, we learn, he is referred to under the familiar title of King Tut, and what is more, the vogue in things curious is rapidly changing from an interest in Chinese and Japanese wares to. a-pronounced demand for' everything Egyptian. As a consequence word is said to have already reached China warning the purveyors of the usually favoured articles here to limit their exports. In these circumstances it is not difficult to imagine those shops in the vicinity of Shepherd's at Cairo, with their scarabs and other muck and truck, emptying themselves all of a sudden so that the American market may be filled, yet next day showing themselves replenished for the benefit of the countless visitors to the Land of the Pharaohs. Meanwhile "Old Johnson," "Moses" and lall the other of: those guides who used to tempt money out of the pockets of subalterns by addressing hem as captain, and calling majors brigadiers with similar intent, will ave a wonderful assortment of articles for sale. The Egyptian is a wonderful shopkeeper; he is equally a wonderful guide; and the man who has ever found either of nonplussed is the rarest of
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