The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-09-18
CINDERELLA IN EGYPT.

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CINDERELLA in EGYPT.
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We may find sermons In stones, but
who would look for fairy tales In a sand
- hGap2,
Nevertheless, in the last tomb of the
last king Of fthe twenty-sExth dynasty
lies buried the original story Of Cinder-
ella and her slipper, ts.a5G,a.
There is, indeed, only one variation Of
! amy reonseqpepee ,bet#eep The. twb YER.
sions, md Abe hticicnt ,pne is csrtaply the
- more romantic. Cinderella's princely ad-
mirer finds in her lost shoe a clew, to his
vanished enchantress, but King Psam-.
Inetlchus falls oyeE head and ears in love
\ %Ah he Enewsl not vfoh from only see
I ind hcrsahdat -s Alfa1
! The piRisnt Chdetehahhs d abeautiful
Greek; 'SabpHo Calls hef Tjoflcfd, and that
was most likely her proper name, but the
Greek people, with whom fairness,of skin
was one Of the highest qualities Of female
beauty, named her froin the loyellness of
her complexion, Rhodopis, Rosy Cheeks,
and as Rosy Cheeks she is known in his
y sorry. E r1 se4
She Is mentioned BY several writer's, but
the slipper story rests on the authority Of
Elian. He relates II as having occurred
to Psammetchus. .s s,lAsa W.
There were three kings Of the name
and he probably meant the third Psametik
Y III of the SGuipturesl, the slast .df The
V dynasty of the ssIlile kings, who was cor
qiered aud deposed by Canbyses the
Persian
Ahodops was originally slave and
fellow bOndswoman Of Hlsop, the writer
Of fables, in the. house of Iadnon of
Sa'nos; and, like the heroine cf the modern
tale, mental and u drudge, SO the par
allel holds good from the beginning Like
Cinderella, too, she had afairy godmother,
butra more powerful mud lavish one, and
her name was Epilr0HTte.
This patroness procued her liberty and
, .besped upon ber erichess; and kboaopis,
\ " make ter nam@ imhoIaal Ny ah pfetf
M such ies had n6yeI sbeens made htfow,
y ldediIated .wittf tenth part 6f herAy5p-
ertya quantity Of iron spIts In the Temple
Of Apollo at Delphi, and this extraordi-
nary gift was still to I've seen there III
Herodot,ts' time 4FaS
Some also say that she built one Of the
Pyramids Of Egypt: but as Hdr6asetss re-
marks, those who say 80 evidently know
nothing about IT; aud however this may
be3tf Rhodepis was NOT so simple as our
own Cinderella, She was, at all events,
more lucky; and II her. eoachIpAa, sands
horses, and ehariots were realiy rats, and
mice, aud pumpkins, they never resumed
their proper shape; and no disseminating
clock sent her hurrying back TO her seal-
lery one shoe otr and one shoe on, Mid
night never struck for her, and she lost
her shoe In quite another way.
At the time speak Of she was said to
he the most beautiful woman in Egypt,
and she lived at Naucratis a port on the
Canopic branch of the Nile, founded in
the preceding reign by eolonists- from
Miletus; and though born Greek, living
y in aiGreek city,it pleased her nov and
4 then to plhy the Egyptian, and to adopt
the manners and fashions Of her new
country. And so 1t came about that one
morning, before the sun was yethigh, she
went down, just as did Pharaoh's daugh-
ter, with her maidens to hathe in the
Nile,
At short distance from the bank she
LEFT her litter, and sought 9 secluded