The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06
PHARAOH'S DAUGHTERS.
They Had Many Luxuries Women En-
joy To-day, and Some others.


New York Mail and Express
The excavations and explorations of Ne
rCutsos Bey, Brougsch Pasha, and, more
recently of DR.. Morgan and Flinders
Petrle, have thrown so much light upon
ancient Egyptian society that we now
Know more about the toilet wardrobe and
daily habits of the princess who found
Moses in the bulrushes than we do of the
early queens of England or France.
strangely enough, the difference between
the ladies of that early period and of to-day
seems to have been less in social matters
IMAM between those of the court of Queen
Elizabeth and to-day. An Egyptian lady of
quality had a suite of at least three rooms
for her own use. One boudoir or recep-
ton room, q second a bath dressing
room and a third bedroom. She had a
dressing maid, an assistant maid or fan
bearer bath maid seamstresS and q
nanicure. The manicure seems to have
been a chiropodist as we'll, because the
bellies of that period used sandals and bare
feet, and not only bestowed the greatest
care upon the toe nails. but in MANY cases
put rings on the toes and magnificent
anklets around the ankles. They took the
same care of their hands and nails as the
women of to-day, and for ornament en-
ployed rings, thumb rings, bracelets and
aImletS.
The hair was dressed in many conven-
tional forms, and there were fashions in
those years which slowly, changed. the same
as there are at the present time. There
were mirrors made of FURNISHED silver, gold,
copper and brass. There were hair brushes,
but these were not as good as modern ones.
Their combs, however, We're far more beau
tiful. They were made of bronze, silver and
gold, and were often jeweled. In shape
there was considerable variety; the working
combs ranged from fine tooth article,
smaller than the regulation affair of to-day.
up to large coarse ones, similar to what are
called BARRIERS combs.
For people not so we'll to do there were
combs of ivory. horn, bone and wood. There
were pieces of hair like our friZZes, bangs
and switches; there were bumpers over
which the hair was rolled; there were orna-
from the horseshoe shape. such as little
girls wear nowadays, to high shell combs
employed in the back part of the hair.
There were hairpins. which must have been
quite costly The cheapest were made of
bronze or brass, while all others were of
silver or gold. Many of these pins We're
stick pins with ornamental heads. the latter
being made of the precious metals of en-
amel, carvings, precious stones and semi
precious stones, such as jade, catseye, fire.
stone, carnelian and coral.
On the dressing table there was powder,
both blonde and brunette, rouge polishing
powder for the nails and teeth, ant1mony
for darkening the eyebrows another prep
aration for making the eyes lustrous. a
scarlet paint or dye for staining the lips,
tweezers for removing superfiuous hair,
scissors, needless bodkins, thimbles work
baskets, jewel cases, and there was even a
powder puff which had pretty silver han
die, and was made of the downy plumage
of birds.
In the bathroom there was hot and cold
water, tooth brush, nail brush. hand brush
and flesh brush. and there were also Curl
Gus little creations in wood, intended for
rubbing the body, producing results of the
same nature as those obtained by massage
treatment. The height of luxury at
tanned by an Egyptian princess in taking a
bath as hot as she possibly could while i'm
mersed to the neck in water, having her
attendants fan her with great palmleaf
fans.
She loved flowers, and had jars full of
choice blossoms in all of her rooms as well
as pots of growing plants She had many
favorites in the animal kingdom, including
song birds. parrots, falcons, owls. birds of
brilliant plumage monkeys, kids. lambs,
leopards. wild cats, ordinary tabbies, ter
riers big dogs, donkeys. and even tiger
cubs. She went to church with great regu-
larity, but, instead of spending an hour or
two spent seldom less than half day at
each service