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SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF ALL NATIONS
#35 - PERSIA
Size: 3" x 5"
Copyrighted: 1893
Lithographer: Kaufmann & Strauss
  
| "COPYRIGHT" Text Variations |
| There are three varieties (that I know of) in the
"COPYRIGHT" text which appears on this
card, as shown below. In all three cases, the text
appears in the lower right corner of the card. |
Text reads: "PAINTING COPYRIGHTED 1893 ARBUCKLE BROS."
and is 28mm long. This is the more common wording that appears on
the cards in this series. |
Text reads: "PAINTING COPYRIGHTED 1893 ARBUCKLE BROS."
and is 30mm long. (This is the variety shown on the
full-size card above). |
Text reads: "COPYRIGHT, 1893, BY ARBUCKLE BROS.N.Y." This
is a less common wording that's only known to
appear on a limited number of cards in this series. |
| (For an overview
of the copyright variations in Sports & Pastimes, click
here.) |
| Reverse - Text |
Left section:
GRIND
YOUR COFFEE AT HOME
Right section: |
| PERSIA. |
| THE
Persians of to-day are not as
warlike as their ancestors were,
but love pleasure equally as
well. Their climate is most
charming and one seldom needs to
be immured within doors. |
| Hawking
is the chief sport of the country
gentlemen. A nobleman often rides
abroad with a falcon on his
wrist. The right hand is covered
with a glove. The hawk is taught
to perch upon the wrist, and is
held by small leather thongs
noosed around its legs The party
ride over fields promiscuously,
and as a quail or other bird is
started, the hawk is let fly and
darts in an instant on his prey,
grasps it in his claws and begins
to devour it, but a servant
gallops up, seizes the game, and
throws merely the heart to the
hawk. When the hawk fails of
taking the game, he flies away in
apparent mortification. But a
small bell attached to his legs
reveals his retreat. He is lured
back by throwing up a chicken
kept ready for the purpose, this
attracts the hawk, and when he
begins feeding on the bait he is
easily retaken. |
| A
common mode of antelope-hunting,
as pursued in Persia, is with
hawks and dogs. Two hawks are
flown while that game is still at
a great distance. Guided by their
keen scent, they soon reach the
deer and harrass it by striking
at its head. This annoys and
interrupts the flight of the
animal so effectually that the
dogs are enabled to come up, soon
followed by the hunters. |
| Among
the peasantry, buffalo-fighting
finds the greatest of favor. The
Persians have a trick of making
them drink to excite their
pugnacity, for these buffalos are
peaceable brutes by nature. |
| The
bath is a never-failing source of
delight and a joyous place of
meeting to the Persians of
cities, as a rule, these baths
are fitted up luxuriously. |
| The
mendicants of Persia are
picturesque wanderers, who
generally find monkeys useful in
coaxing alms. |
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NOTE: To see non-Arbuckle usage of this
supposedly copyrighted Arbuckle illustration,
click  here.
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