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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams 



WHERS ELECTRICITY DISPELS THE ILLUSION OF" ARABIAN NIGHTS 



The balconies of Lahore suggest love feasts and intrigue ; but the shops below are 

 devoted to prosaic, though often eloquent, commerce, and the electric light now spies on the 

 incognito wanderings of the modern Haroun al Raschid. 



