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- to The Bee.) How would you
I j I like to own an KK.vptlan
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pure prlnctHs, peihups 2,000
yitarn old? I was offered one
t the Ulzr.fi mudcum today. The price
was JuBt In i:anh, and accompanying
It was a certificate showing It was not
made In Germany. The excavations which
re now going on In the valley of the
Kile rn.ro audi that the museum has mum
mlea and relics to sell. Hundreds of the
ancient dead have been shipped to all parts
of the world, and the ghoul-like officials
are now adding to their revenues by dis-
jKjwlng of their surplus bodies of nobles
who lived and ruled ages ago. In con
nection with the mummy offered me was
a certificate giving Its probable age. The
lady lay in the clothes in which she was
buried. She was wrapped around with
llnon as yellow as saffron, and her black?
face appeared to vmlle as I looked. Bhe
liad been put up in spices, and It seemed
to me that I could almost smell the
lumes with which she was cured.
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heard
1'lck.llnw the I'haruoha.
During my stay in the museum I
much of the thousands of mummies which
have already been found and of those
which are now being dug from the desert.
A vast number have been discovered In
addition to those nf the l'haraohs, ami the
actual bodies of the greatest rulers of an
cient Egypt are now on view. Muny of
these were so treated by the embalmers in Egypt, had him embalmed and the Bible third considerably loss.
of the past that they are In excellent con- says It took forty days to properly cure Other authorities relate different methods
Ultlon today. hint. It also relates that when Joseph died of mummification. The most of the mum
Take old Kameses, the king who built the Egyptians embalmed him and put him mles discovered, however, have been pre
Thebes, Karnak and other great cities. He "way la a coffin. Herodotus, who was one served by means of gums of one kind or
was the man who oppressed the Israelites, .
although not the one whom the l.oid af-
fllctod with plagues and thereby caused
the exodus. This Kameses was the Alex
ander of Egypt, the Napoleon of the Nile
valley of 3,000 odd years ago. He liad con
quered the countries about him and wa.
rollliig In wealth. He was as great In tin
minds of the nations of that time as Theo
dore Uoosevelt Is today, and his blood
t lowed as freely. He now lies here, with
uoue too poor to do him reverence.
And, still, he is wonderfully preserved.
His Iron Jaw Is as firm as when he ut
tered his commands In his capital, the
hundred-gated tity of Thebes. Hid enor
mous nose 1m still prominent, and his white
teeth have lasted these 2,000 years without
the use of a dentist. He has his original
hair, a little faded, perhaps, and his neck,
shrunken to the slxe of my wrist, shows
an Adain'a apple as big as a golf ball.
Near the casket Is one containing cll 1,
the phuroah who preceded Kameses, an
other great warrior and emperor, who is
aald to have made a canal from the Nile
to the Ked sea; ami nearby is the mummy
of Meneptah, the pharoah who hardened his
heart against the Israelites and would not
let them go. rtl "es In his coffin ff.h Ills
black arms crossed and his black head
cushioned on yellow grave clothes. His fea
tures are as peaceful as In life and lie ap
eurs to sleep well.
Some Feuijilv Mummies.
How would you American girls like to
wear one suit of clothes for 3.0.0 years?
That has been the fate of the well pre
served ladles of this Egyptian museum. The
tnost of them are clad In fine gauze much
like linen or silk, and lu some cases, this
looks as fresli as when it was made. It
was wrapped around their limbs after hav
lsg been properly treated Willi spices and
pitch, Hiid It clings to them mure tightly
than the hobble skirt of today. I noticed
one queen with a necklace of beads and an
other who has a shawl arojiml her head. A
third lies ut full length in her coffin witli
the mummy of her baby at her feet.
Another princess stands upright against
the side of the wall. Her face is plated
with gold and her mummy clothes are em
broidered. She Is wrapped round and rixnnl
with cloths, and one might w rap up a gli I
of today and make a similar bundle. An
other of these mummy ladies has hair
w hich apears to have been done up in curl
papers, and, strange to me, the hair is as
red as my own.
Ooraeovs tuff 'as.
Many of the mummy caskets are splen
did. They are made o fine woods, painted
Inside and out with pictures describing the
life of the owner. Hume are covered Willi
carvings and some with heads which may
have been likenesses of those who luy
within. It costs much to die now. It must
have cost more to die then. The expense
of making a mummy was Sl.)U), and money
was then worth ten times what it is now.
The caskets were mure expensive than any
of the coffins wtt have today, and they were
looaaed In great sarcophagi of stone or
Excavations Unearthing
wood, tome ulnffle ones of -wWch rnuat hav of the beet travel writer of alt time, de
cent fortunes. . In the Olzeh museum there scribes how embalming was done and tells
Is one room caUed the Hall of the Caskets, all about the making of mummies. He says
It covers. I Judge, about one-fourth of an the art was carried on by a special guild,
acre, and It Is filled with coffins and can- whose members were appointed by the gov
kets. There are enough sarcophagi In It to ernment and who had to work at fixed
form watering troughs for the largest of prices. The bodies were mummified In
the Chicago stock yards, and many of them three different ways. In the first and most
h hen rut out nf solid blocks of red or costly method, the brains were extracted
Ki - av granite, the sides being so smooth that
ycm can see your face In them. Others are
covered with hieroglyphics, and all are con-
structed with an art equal to the finest
Btonecuttlng of today. Plm wine. They were covered with aro-
matlc gum and set aside In Jars. The cavity
How Momiulea Were Made. Qf the body was now filled with spicea, ln
I have aitked the archaeologists here as to eluding myrrh and cassia and other fra
how the Egyptians made the mummies grant substances, and It was then sewn
which are now being dug from the earth, up. After this the body was soaked In a
Their reply was that the desire for mum-
miflcatlon came from the religion of the
ancient Egyptians, who believed In the
transmigration of souls. They thought that
the spirit wandered about for several thou-
sand years after death and then came back
to the home It had upon earth. For this
reason It was desirable to keep the body
Intact, and everyone looked to his muminl-
hood as his only chance of re-creation here-
after.
When the art of embalming began no one
knows, but it is supposed to date back
to the time of the pyramids. We know
that Joseph, when his father, Jacob, died
Bunch of Cupid Romances
.Never Too Late to Wed.
HE marriage record for the last
twenty-four hours of Sep
tember 22 in New York and
vicinity included the follow
ing: John S. Lyle, 91 years old.
T
was married in Yonkers to Miss Julia
U. Haiuion, a trained nurse, who has
Just passed her 20th birthday. The
bridegroom retired from business nearly
forty years ago with a fortune estimated
at $4,000,000. Miss Hannon attended him
during a lecenl illness.
August Blankenhorn, 73 years old, of
Brojklyn, whs married to Mrs. Bertha
Bond, a widow of about 50. The groom
Is a well-to-do merchant. "I have been
on the point of asking her for eight
years," he said, "but I knew I was no
beauty and every time I started to pop
the. question I got scared."
At (Stamford, Conn., J. Henry Smith,
78 years old, married Miss Amanda Wil
liams. 48.
In a Ivong Island suburb, Marcus Ull
man, 78, married Mrs. Leah Fleischer, a
widow of 45. It was a case of love at
first sight, as the pair met only three
dys ago at the home of friends.
lirldraroont Tried to Klee.
Pleading he. was merely a substitute
for the real wooer, relates the Phila
delphia Record, William Crawford of
Amhurst, Neb., was arrested at Blooms
burg, Pa,, charged with attempting to de
sert ills bride of a night, Sadie Emery,
daughter of K. 8. Emery.
Crawford argued that he had done his
duty, and tried to console the bride with
the assurance that the man who had
really wooed her, the genuine Crawford,
would be in In a few days, the romance
having been a mail affair, during the
progress of which the correspondents had
never met.
District Attorney Small, Justice. . Ja
cohy nd Constable Betz were routed
from their beds, and before the town
clock 1. ul struck six Crawford was under
arrest. In this predicament he declared
his former statement that he was not
Crawford was untrue, and that he really
was the man of the young girl's dreams.
The difficulties were adjusted, and the
couple left for their western home, where
Crawford claims he is a. man of prop
erty.' The romance had its inception when
the bride read in the national newspaper
of the Seventh lxiy AdventlsU. & reli
gious sect with which she Is identified,
that William Crawford of Amhurst. Neb.,
'as not averse to taking unto himself a
second Ufa. he being a widower of 41,
with a 6-year-old sua. Miss Emery an
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through the nose by means of an iron
probe, and the Intestines were taken out
through an Incision made In the side. The
Intestines were then cleaned and washed in
solution of natron, a kind of carbonate of
soda, being allowed to He In It for a couple
of months or more. It was then taken out
and wrapped In fine linen so smeared over
with gum that It stuck to the skin, when,
the mummy was ready for burial,
The second process was cheaper, but It
took about the same time. In tliiB the
brains were left in and the body was so
treated In the solution that everything
except the skin and bones was dissolved.
There was a third process which consisted
of cleaning tho corpse and laying It down
In salt for seventy days. The first process
cost about $1,200, Die second $100 and the
swered, and her letter brought a fervent
response. That was seven months ago.
The correspondence was kept up and
photographs exhanged, with tlfe result
that she finally accepted his proposal of
marriage.
Slipper Wins Husband.
Some time this fall a dainty slipper will
be thrown after Mildred Mermelsteln of 21i
East One Hundred and Thirteenth street.
New York, for double good luck. It won
her a rich husband, and Samuel Nowuiau
got a wife In a way that makes the bride-to-be.
a real up-to-date Cinderella. Except
for the slipper Newman might have lived
for years a lonely bachelor In his home, In
610 Wendover avenue, the Bronx.
Three weeks ago Miss Mermelsteln went
to a dance with several girl friends. The
strain of dancing broke the strap on one of
her little satin slippers, and she was forced
to use a common, unromantlu pin to repair
the break. Afterward the girls returned
home In a trolley car, which Miss Mermel
stein was the last to leave. She had Just
placed one foot on the pavement when she
felt the pin snap and the satin slipper gave
way again. She called to the conductor to
stop the car, but too late. lie already had
given the signal to the motorman, and the
tar sped on, carrying the slipper and leav
ing Miss Mermelsteln standing in the road,
flushing with dismay. With her friends
shielding her from the gaze of curious per
sons she managed to get home, deeeply
grieved at the loss of the slipper and not
suspecting the incident would prove a turn
ing point In her life.
In the car was Samuel Newnuui, 24 years
old. but already tiring of a Urormbacholor
hood. He noticed the tiny slipper as he was
about to leave the car and remembered the
young woman who got off the car a few
seconds before. Putting the slipper in his
pocket, he hurried to the block where Miss
Mermelsteln alighted, only to find that she
and her companions had gone away. Then
he decided to take the slipper homo, and
the next day he put an advertisement in
several newspapers, offering to return the
slipper to its original wearer.
Miss Mermelsteln read the advertisement
and answered with a brief note to Newman,
giving her address. The man did not even
send an answer by mall, but hurried to the
young woman's home. There, as the slip
per fitted Miss Mermelsti'ln'g foot, and she
had the mate, he was assured he had found
the rightful owner. But that Is only the
begtnning of the story.
Newman felt that, his acquaintance with
the young woman ought not to end there.
He followed the usual method In such cases
of finding an excuse to call again, and
thereafter he found many more excuses for
the same purpose. The acquaintance
SUNDAY HKK: OCTOBER
another, and - by pitch- and carbonate oi
orla. The mummies with gums are usually
green In color and their skins look as
though they were tanned. They break
when they are unrolled. The mummies
pickled with pitch are black and hard, but
the features are preserved Intact, and It If
fa Id that such mummies will last forever.
In those preserved by soda the skin Is hard
and rather loose, and the hair falls off
when It Is touched. The pitch mummy us
ually keeps Its hair and teeth.
Mammies of 4 hlldrrn.
There are mummies of children In this
Egyptian museum. There are some also
in London, but I know of none anywhere
else. The children were embalmed for the
Bame reason as the grown-ups, the parents
believing that they cftuld have no union
with their little ones without they met
them again after the resurrection In their
original bodies. The faces of some of these
children are gilded, and the pictures upon
the bandages represent the child offering
sacrifices to the gods. Above the feet may
be the funeral boat showing the little child
lying upon its bier, and upon the other
parts of 'the coffin are tiny little people
who seem to be engaged In propelling the
boat. This probably represents the ferry of
the dead to Its tombs in the mountains on
the banks of the Nile. In other cases the
caskets of the little ones are beautifully
decorated and In some they are plated with
gold. I
't he Book of the Dead.
One of the most Important records of the
customs of the Pharaohs In regard to the
dead has been taken away from Egypt.
This is a papyrus manuscript which Is now
in the British museum. It is known as the
Book of the Dead and contains 200 chapters.
It Is written in hieroglyphics, but many of
tho passages have been translated. Ac
cording to it, every man was believed to
consist of seven different parts, of which
the actual body was only one. The others
related to the soul and its transmigration,
and It was believed that upon the preser
vation of the body depended the bringing
together of these seven parts In the fu
ture. It was on this account that corpses
were mummified, and for the same reason
that they were hidden away in tombs under
the desert and In the great pyramids which
their owners believed would be Inaccessible
to the men of the future.
This Book of the Dead contains also
Boine of the Egyptian Ideals of right 11 v-
ripened speedily into friendship, and yester
day came news of tho engagement, whicli
will be announced formally on next Sun
day. The marriage of the couple will take
piaco early in the fall. '
Public lAfve-iUaklng.
The lovcniaklng of upper class Mexico
Is perforce done lor all to see. It is prac
tically impossible lor lovers to have
speech quite ulone, uud less so If they
are engaged, llia.ii if their passion is un
declared. An uvowedly enamored couple
must be under constant supervision, re
ports tho Delineator. A girl may not
receive callers of the other sex save
in the presence of a suitable chaperon,
and this does no( tend to make calling
a favorite pastime with the men hard
put to it though they are to fill their
days. Except for the chances oc
casionally ottered the eyes must tell
what the tongue may not.
And all this has given rise to customs
affording unmixed uelight to the stranger
wiio for the first time observes them.
Those which are known as haclcndo del
oso (playing the bear), and pelando la
pava (plucking tiie peacock), are respec
tively talking through barred windows or
strolling up and down beneath an inac
cessible balcony. But it is flechando
which uwakens a yet greater sense of
amusement. Literally translated It means
"daring arrows" cuplds . darts, by in
ference. But it Is nothing more or less
than staring one's lady love out of
countenance with eyes which express de
votion in inverse ratio to the number of
times they wink. This form of court
ship is chiefly resorted to In the plasu
.or In the theater.
To the central plaza the Mexican girl
t,ues upon those evenings when the band
piays Here she locks her arm in that of
a friend or relative of her own sex and
begins to walk along the broad pave
ment which surrounds the bandstand. Be
fore long there is a steady, unbroken
stream of femininity moving in one di
rection and one of men, equally steady
and unbrukcu, moving In tiie. other.
It Is extremely rare for a man to Join
the wonsen for more than a moment, and
even this moment Is not habitually seized.
The whole satisfaction is derived from
passing the beloved time and again, ex
changing with her a meaning glance.
While the band Is not playing tiie
women seat themselves upon the benches
which line the promenade. Thereupon
an ardent suitor Is expected to station
himself opposite, and at once set about
flechando.
I'nlafrd Paragraphs.
A cheerful man is a pessimist's idea of a
fool.
Life is a grind, but the world is full of
cranks.
We once heard of a man who loved to
pav his debts, but we have forgotten his
address.
Considering what most people are willing
to do for money it's a wonder there are not
more millionaires. Chicago News,
L 1910.
Ancient Kings in Egypt
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inff, reminding one of the -Psalm which,
according to Rouse's version, begins: ,
"That man hath perfect blessedness C
Who walketh not astray
In counsel of ungodly men,
Nor stands In sinner's way.
Nor sltteth In the scorner's chair;
But placeth his delight
Upon God's law and meditates
On that law day and night.
The Book of the Dead reads.
"1 am not a plunderer; not a niggard;
nor the cause of others' tears. I am not
unchaste, nor hot in speech. ' I am not
fraudulent. I do not take away the cakes
of a child, or profane the gods of my lo
cality." Immortality of the Gsjrrptlnns.
There Is no doubt that the Egyptian be
lieved In the Immortality of the soul. They
thought man would live again, and gave
the soul the name of Ba, representing It in
the form of a human-headed hawk. They
Gossip About
Murdoch and the Town Bully,
HEN Victor Murdoek," the beacon
light of the insurgents, dropped
Into Newark, N. J., to give a
monologue on Joe Cannon, he
tariff, conservation and the high
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cost of living he said he wanted
most of all to see a friend of his boyhood
days who was living here, reports the New
ark Star. Here is Mr. Murdock's descrip
tion of the friend:
"A husky, freckle-faced little devil, as I
remember him, in short pants. We used to
rob birds' nests and pilfer apples together
out In Kansas glorious state, Kansas and
get into all sors of deviltry. Kred that's
his name was the terror of the country
side. I suppose he's the town bully now.
Why, I remember" and then followed a
long list of daredevil boyuth episodes in
which Murdoek and friend Fred played
stellar parts.
Fred to be exact, Frederick W. Eewis
of 600 llldge street lreard that Murdoek
was In town and went down to renew ac
quaintance with him. They fell on one an
other's necks and swapped yarns for ten
minutes. Then Murdoek told, all over
again, to an attentive group the taleB of
Fred's escapades. When he had finished
ha asked:
"By the way. Fred, what are you doing
now?"
"Why, I am pastor of the Forest Hill
Presbyterian church here," was the answer.
Murdoek collapsed.
A Weary Celebrity.
When Mrs. Roger A Pryor was a young
woman living In Charlottesville, Vs., visit
ing authors seldom reached the beautiful
university town. "Thackeray, Dickens and
Miss Martineau passed us by," says Mrs.
Prior In her book entitled "My Day Remi
niscences of a Liong Ufe."
, But Frederlka Bremer condescended to
spend a night with her compatriot Baron
Scheie de V'ere, of the university faculty,
on her way to the south.
Scheie de .Vere Invited a choice company
to spend the one evening Miss Bremer
granted him. Her works were extremely
popular with the university circle, and
everyone was on tiptoe of pleased anticipa
tion. When the waiting company eagerly ex
pected her the door oened not for MIhs
Bremer, but fop her companion, who an
nounced; "Miss Bremer, she beg excuse. She ver'
tired and must sleep. If she come she gape
In your noses."
Newspaper Maa for (ioveraor.
In the year 183 H. D. Fisher of Florence,
Wis., owned several, mines and a newspa
per, relates J. A. Watrous In the Rccoid-
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had their own Ideas of heaven, and one of
their pictures of the future stste repre
sents it as follows:
"In heaven the dead eat bread which
never grows stale and drink wine which
Is never musty.. They wear white apparel
and sit upon thrones among the gods, who
cluster around the tree of life near the
lake in the field of peace. They wear the
crowns which the gods give them, and no
evil being or thing has any power to harm
them In their new abode, where they will
live with God forever."
According to one opinion, the Egyptian
heaven was situated above the sky. It
was separated from the earth by a great
iron plate, to which lamps were fastened,
thesei lamps being the stars. According to
another theory the heaven was In the
delta, or In one of the oases, and a third
idea was that the sky was In the form of
Noted People
Herald. He knew how to manage the
mines, but couldn't run tho puier, and
asked me to send him a likely newspaper
man. I sent him a young reporter on the
Milwaukee Wisconsin, it wasn't long'oe
fore he owned the paper and was the most
popular' man In Florence. Ale edited his
paper, the local and political pages, was
his own solicitor, did Job work and when
the apprentice was on a vacation swept t lie
Office. A few years of good management
put $15,000 In his pocket. Then he bought
the Sault Ste. Marie News and some city
lots and an interest In an iron mine. Then
the young newspaper man stepped across
the line into a' state reputation as an ora
tor of unusual power, a writer of much
force and a business man of exceptionally
good Judgment.
ilis party narrowly escaped nominating
him for congress and then made him state
game and fish warden. In 11M) he -was a
leading candidate of the republican party
for governor. Fur several years he was
railroad commissioner. He lias retained
an interest In two or (liree papers, has
been president of the State Press associa
tion and lias made hundreds of campaign
speeches, and all of the time has ad. led
to his wealth by fortunate investments.
Some years ago he bought, for a small
price, a mining property on Moose moun
tain, Michigan. His friends told him he
was throwing away money In that pur
chase, but he hung on to the mine. Not
many months ago lie sold an interest in It
for $.').0O0. He still owns enough of it
and other property to make him. If nut a
millionaire, very well-to-do.
But that is not so much to rejoice over
as the fact that lie Is a manly man, whose
example and good work have been of value
to all about him.
The more I see of that young reporter
of 1W3 the better pleased I am with my
choice of a man to take charge of H. I).
Fisher's paper. His name? Chase S. Os
born, the republican candidate f.ir gov
ernor and doubtless the next governor of
Michigan. As boy and young man Mr.
Usborn did not have half as good a chance
to succeed In life as have thousands of
boys and young men who will read this
brief sketch of a man who has succeeded
becuuse he earned success on his merits.
Mtroaa- on Uugth,
Richard Carle lately engaged as" cook a
SwediMi giantess, who proved unsatisfac
tory, un departure she asked for a written
testimonial and Mr. Carle presented her
with the following:
"To whom it may concern: I have lately
had In my employ Hulda Swunson. who
was engaged to cook fur a family of three
and do such other tilings us would oe pos
sible when not cooking. I'nder this hi-ad
might come a little dusting snd dishwash
ing and answering the door bell. Taking
all these things into account I wish to say
tli at Hulda Is absolutely the tallest Look I
vcr saw." success Magazine.
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a cow. and another in that of a woman,
the legs of the enw and the head and feet
of the woman being the cardinal points.
As to creation, that began with tho ris
ing of the sun, which was brought about
by a god, and men and women came from
the tears which dropped from the eyes of
that god. This is somewhat better than
the old Chinese tiaditioii of the world's
making. According to the latter, the god
Pwanku chiseled out the universe and was
18,000 years on the Job. At the end of that
time he died, and his head turned into
mountains, his breath became wind and
his Voice the thunder. From his flesh
came the fields, from his beard the stars
and from his skin and hair tho trees. All
minerals originated from his teeth and
bums. The rain is his sweat, and, lastly.
man was created from the Insects which
stuck to his body.
The Origin of tbe Golden fair.
In examining these gods of the ancient
Egyptians as shown in the relices which
came from the tombs it Is easy to see
where the Israelites got their Idea of the
golden calf. Their oppressors from whom
they were fleeing, revered curtain animals.
They looked upon hawks as emblems of
the sun, moon and stars and at their death'
often turned tliem to mummies. The cat
was sacred to one of their gods. They
had also statues of cows, and tho cow was
considered emblematic of Hathor, the gui
des of beauty, love and joy. You may see
her statues scattered up and down the
Nile valley. Sometimes she is depicted as a
cow and at others as u womun wearing
cow horns with the sun hung between
them. There is a carving of yucen Cleo
patra di.ncd up in that way.
In l'.w a remarkable cow goddess was
excavated from the tomb of Deir-el-Bahi i,
not far from Thebes. I saw the placu
whence It came and talked to the men who
dug it out of the earth. The cow is of
white limestone about four feet in height
and perhaps six feet In length. It has a
red tail, u black face, and Its head l
crowned with lotus flowers and lotus
stalks hang down each side its neck al
most to the ground. There is a king kneel
ing under the cow in the attitude of prayer.
That statu,' was probably worshiped at the
time the Israelites were working in the
valley of the Nile, ami it may have been
from one like her that they molded thuii
calf of gold.
Tbe Jewels of the Egyptian.
And this brings me to the Jewels of which
that calf was made! if you will look up
the Bible records in Exodus you will see
that Moses adVlsed the Israelites that every
man'should burrow of his Egyptian neigh
bor and every woman of her neighbor
Jewels of silver and Jewels of gold; and a
little farther on it Is staled ttiat they did
so, the paiagraph coin Imllug as follows:
"And the I-oid gave the people favor in
the sight of the Egyptians, so that they
lent unto them. Ami they Boiled the
Egyptians."
in these museums here in Cairo you may
see pints anil quarts of Jewelry such as the
Israelites borrowed and took with them into
the wilderness to melt down to make that
golden ealf. There are many sucli in thu
museum of Cizeh In a room known as the
Hall of the Jewels. This place Is filled with
great eases containing ornaments of gold
and sliver taken from the tombs. Home
date back almost to the time of the pyra
mids and many were in use before the
Israelites left Egypt. Among them are
bracelets of gold much the same as our
girls are now wearing. Some are golden
snakes with spring colls so that they will
fit any arm and others are solid rings of
massive gold. I saw armlets to be worn
above the elbow, golden girdles for the
waist and a chain or gold with a goose
head at either end. Borne of the finest of
these ornaments were owned by a queen
who lived li B. C, and whose mummy
came from a tomb not far from Thebes.
FRANK O. CAR PEN TEH.
