C. A. budget campaign at the meet
ing at. the Service Center last even
ing it was found that but $32,596 ha
heen secured. As it was felt that
this was due to the inclement weather
that had hindered the campaigners
and the great amount of illness it
was decided to continue the solicita
tions in a quiet way In an endeavor
to bring the total up to the desired
$62,000. The association girls and
boys who use the Service Center on
Barnuxn avenue brought in $3,66 6
and the greatest single gift was that
ot $500 from Mr. and Mrs. Charles
S. Sanford.
The fellah of Egypt, for centuries
the, most ignorant and improvident of
serfs, have ridden into prosperity on
the tidal wave of reconstruction, and
with him his long suffering wife.
Still, as to the days of Christ, one
may see him on his way to market,
bestriding a donkey, while his wife
with her heavy burden on her head
trudges behind. Yet there is a real,
if invisible, change in their rela
tions. Through the sudden rise in the
price of cotton from $20 to $100 a
kantar since the beginning of the
war, the housewife has been enabled
to make long neglected . purchases
and been enabled to display her na
tive shrewdness in bargaining and
financial matters. It is she who mar
kets all the products of the farm
In an interesting paper recently
read before the Cairo Geographical
Society by William Willocks, says the
Detroit News, is described how many
cf the fellaheen's wives have profited
by the rising tide of agricultural
prosperity, to start a little money
lending on their own account, and
not infrequently to their husbands.
