The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-20
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eddy taxed his subjects. He did not create
the wealth himself. We have no exact
method Of counting the Egyptian popula-
ton but 1t is believed that there were then
some 100000 of souls. How heavily then
the maintenance of these temples must
have rested on the shoulders of the Egyp-
tians.
At the last meeting of the American
FOLKLORE Society Capt. Burke discussed
the general question of folk food in the
Rio Grande Valley and of Northern Mex
leo. This excellent authority states that
the Franciscan monks brought to Mexico
peaches, apples, pears, 'prunes, cherries,
ounces, figs, dates, pomegranites, wal
nuts, olives, almonds, sugar cane, coffee
oranges, and, perhaps, lemons and ba-
nanas." The native products were the CO.
Goa, the tomato and the potato. There is
an old book written by an English Domin-
lean monk who spent fourteen years in
Mexico and Guatemala, entitled, "A Sur
vey of the West Indies" He inVeighs
against a CONNECTION of candied pineapple
the holy fathers were overload of. The
Carmelite nuns, who had convent schools
taught the natives European methods of
dressing food, and 1t is probable that a
certain kind of Mexican sweets-Carmen-
clio de leche-owes its origin TO these
good sisters; and it may be, too, that "car-
ameP is derived from the same source.
Prof. Otis T. Mason, in the American
Anthropologist, discusses that most com
pick topic, "Similarities in Culture" In
these columns the question has been often
asked, How comes it that in different
art products, industries, social structures
and customs, folk tales, beliefs and divin-
tiles, and even lteratures, in their selec-
ton or fashioning and in their final usage
we might say, ito meet the same needs''
all men worked in the same direction
Take, however, the consideration of be-
liefS which are purely mental, and how do
there happen to be these strange rap
prochments?" Here is an example: In the
most ancient of manuscripts of Java the
east is supposed to have a distinct color
white PnnfinQ1lNF
silver palace of the east is bathed in
sea of cecoanut milk, and the
ffn u bird bird. is Sta, white one.
ton says the name of the east wind is indi-
Gated. by white color. There are four
points OF the compass, but why shoslld
Java and South America? Would this
show as discussed by Prof. Cyrus Thomas.
contact in prehistoric times between
American and Oceanic people?
As far as we can make them out, the
school books of the early Egyptians were
very un1nteresting compilations Known
under the title Shot" they were essen
TALLY teaching or lesson books. The form
Some great sage or scholar or king i'm
parts his experiences. Sometimes the books
contain brief maxims, which are excellent
ana quite applicable to-day, but more fire.
quently these lessons seem to us overen-
belliShed, until the real sense escapes Poe
sibiy these books were intended not for
chlldren, but for young men. Great stress
appears to have been put on literary stvIa
To write 9 letter correctly and in Droner
form is always held, in these books to he
the acme of polite education. The old
Egyptian would have committed a great
breach of propriety had he written to his
friend, How are your" He had to coticb
his phrase somewhat in this way: Il, say
continually to Re Harmachis at his risine
ana setting, and to Anon Re and Ptab
and to the other gods and goddesses. Give
me tidings of my friend. Mayst thou be in
health. Mayst thou live longI Mayst thoti
be happy Q, that might see thee again in
health and embrace thee in my arms. The
hlgh-born Egyptian was redundant in his
letter writing and to acquire epistolarv
his early childhood ~
Those timekeepers the Pleiades have
been used to mark the days from the most
remote periods. Mr.. 7. w. Fewkes, de-