They seem to be always in sight, from everywhere, those airy, graceful, inspiring things.

But masts is not the right word, for masts have a perceptible taper, while these minarets have not.

They are 142 feet high, and only 8 1/2 feet in diameter at the base, and 7 1/2 at the summit--scarcely any taper at all.

These are the proportions of a candle; and fair and fairylike candles these are.

Will be, anyway, some day, when the Christians inherit them and top them with the electric light.