Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-07-15

Dr.. Ahtot's Egyptian antiquities IL tie
museum Of the New York Historical
UcIetv.
Among tbees found the little worn
leather shoe Of child and pair CT tiny
baby slippers or sandals 1t made me
sad to think Of the little feet that wore
these and danced aud played-some
body's dazzling gone and forgotten age.
ago There ara ladies boots Of KID,
white purple and red, no doubt fine and
dainty In their Gay. One feels like re
peatlug
And ;boa ka--t AlEed ASou.-how straases
-try'-
In The,--' strects thrr-e thousand year. agn
Among The strange relics Of the grown
Up children = Egypt are The toilet mir.
rurs. l. was e1pacted evidently tina. the
youthful! beauty who started ON the Ions
journey would continue TO care for the
pretty face waiting in her tomb for he,
rturu. 50 h"r mirror was placed al
he- siGe by careta, hands The=o mir
ron ar Il met4.. chiefly copper. nearly
round AID st II handles u wood q
stoue tAat an fashioned sometimes Int
flower -Aaqe, sometimes into column
VIII II" had .: goddess, Some have
IL. yrtLH.ag monster 10 contrast With
IT, becoming IL. = IT, beauty Who =
Il - II Ih.-e lHi-rrsI- = are 20 wonder
fully Inaae that when taken out of the
earth a:t.r - many centuries they eau
b repo..-aed To tAelr original bright.
ne--
The ladies, -ad TO late, ar shown
On hldeoa, car.catury As whiting
away the time by lingering and admir-
Ing thelr lewelry ana personal orgA-
ueut-- tn earrings particularly seem
to attract attention TIE quote ce.e-
bratci English Psychologist;
They are inQQ!ring their value and
where they were bought, eoveting the
Others q preferr.ug their own.
Among the M4Ay objects that bring
Us strangely near to the everyday life
Of Egypt Is I l4dy's workbasket 1t con
tains medley Of pretty trifies, foreign
in appearance, but evidently for the
Same home!y uses Us our OWE There
are skeius Of thread, bronze pins and
needles, broken scissors, netting bob
bin wound with the thread AS when
it dropped from the slender fingers and
a fragment Of knitting il bright colored
woods To me- the most touchingly real
object was a shred Of linen partly mend
ed, with the dainty stitches left unfn-
ished by the vanished hand" 80 long,
long ago,
a piece OF cloth taken from a soldiers
tomb had the mark If his rank embroid-
cred III black, just Us We see today tbs
officers rank on his military coat
There IS a shoe Of one of the pharaohs,
lined with leather, On the sole Of which
is painted Jewish captive in bonds, to
show their seorn and contempt Of the
people they thus trod under foot
began by telling you Of the queer
toys Of the children. But perhaps it
may interest yeu TO know how the
an Us Inents Of the older folk ara repre-
scented on the tomhs Sometimes the de-
tails Of a feast CT dinner party are given
with exactucss The master Of the house
sits awaiting his guests and passes the
time by playing with pet monkey tied
TO his chair We see the guests arriving
and the servants amounting each other
with Iorfumed rnEneuts. The jars con
tanning sueh eiutmeuJs have been found.
retaining faint spicy fragrance after
thousands Of years
There arr large, graceful vases of
flowers standing III the halls and slaves
presenting fresh lotus blossoms to the
lady gueste and renewing from the
rooms those that have faded The char
lot Of the ultra fashionable diner out ap-