Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-09

sacred beetles carved in ancient syca- moro wood which she forth with ex. hibited strung on her plump arm and fastened with clasps of gold. The story of the gift becoming common property where all gossip is exchanged this season at an evening, not an afternoon tea, 1t has since been favorite diver sion to inspect tho really remarable col lection of this recluse Egyptologist when by gift of especially large and fragrant roses-her only other hobby the younger people can secure an invi- tation.
 She is very elender of figure, white haired and wears the trimn est and prim. nest of black gowns, affording in these particulars curious contrast to her Egyptian room, which is the delight of her heart and, if tho fashion holds. very likely the prototype of as many others as there were Russian boudoirs twelve months ago. It is not purely Egyptian. though as picturesque bit as there is in New York City, tapestried with prayer-carpets and shaggy rugs from Laedicea and Syrian and Algerian hangings. On the floor is a striped car pet from Tunis, and the divans are covered with rich-hued smyrna fabrics. There is a table. the spread of which is a piece of dim old embroidery and a quaint cabinet of ebony inlaid with mother of pearl where vases in silver and ala baster, sacred boats of silver adorned with the symbolic eye, small silver weapons, &c., divide honors with an Egyptian lady's dressing case-an odd-looking cushion holding bone comb, bodkins, kohl bottles and 5 mirror.
 Here sits the spare. Puritanic little collector before coffee service in Egyptian pottery, and, though the To- tus flower is wanting since the frost killed those we have lately taught to bloom in Jersey meadow, fresh flow CTS fill bottle of the same barrel shape that ono may sec pictured in the festi val scenes at Yhebes as the cups are passed to young Gotham fashionables. If you are musical she may ask you to try your hand on 8 two-stringed Egyp- tan violin.
 The straightest road to the heart of a fair maiden just at present is to give her fine scarab set in ring. If it be engraved on gem this little symbo of the immortality of the soul can be taken so much the more readily for an emblem of the deathlessness of affec tion. but an enthusiastic scarab fancier will accept one moulded in pottery. glazed and of moro than doubtful au- thenticity and set it, if it be large enough in the corner of her silver card | case covered with hicroglyphic writing or mount 1t as a pendant or watch charm.
 We like the Japanesque better than | the Japanese. and where one sees most 1 evidences of the Egyptian cult is in the ! things which are after, and some times 1 long distance after, the Egyptian. saw yesterday a screon which was said 1 to be going into tho newly furnishe d house of Mrs. Whitney. It was inlaid. | according to the old Egyptian style, in 1 cedar, ebony and ivory, and was to be l fanked on either side by light and | graceful tripod to hold flowers.
 The daughter of Erastus Wiman whc (
 was married few weeks ago, counted
 among her wedding gifts one of the 1 finest of the new silver clocks, the de l sign of which was borrowed from the old sculptures of the artists of the Pha l raohs. On either side of the dial were columns with lotus bud capitals, and iu l place of candlebra were two sphinxe> couchant with dark silver bodies anC 1 human heads.
 l Another clock which I saw just attel l Christmas was of bright bronze in the l shape of tho sacred boat of the Egyp
 tians, the prow being richly carved and | decorated with the clock face insteat l of the eye, symbol of day. A thirt l of these recent efforts of the silver | smiths art is held, l believe, by Now
 York lady for an association of wome1
 to present to Mrs. Talmage, and is the
 most elaborate I have seen. Nut, al
 Egyptian goddess represented as ;
 woman curved so as to touch tho ground
 with her fingers and standing for the
 vault of heaven, bends over the clocl
 faco from behind, while Isis, woman
 crowned with tho sun disk and Horus
 the child, support it on either side. In good many drawing rooms and il
 tho bric-a-brac stores you will fin(
 queer vases in the shape of hug'
 blue porcelain frogs, double -heade>
 geese, etc., which stand for an
 cient Egyptian deities and ar'
 reproduced to please an undevou
 modern eye. The ibis. the asp, pome
 granates and Milo rushes begin to mee
 us in decorative work at every turn
 Screens of peacock athers have com
 in again. Next summer we may lool
 to see the lotus lily tho favorite flower if indeed the forco of the Egyptia 1; fever be not spent by that time.
 ELIZA PUTNAM HEATON. A Submarine Boat That Works.