The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-09
ANTIQUITY WAS Up TO DATE
This Seems to Be Proved by Garments Taken
from Graves Made 200 Years Ago.


| from Graves Made !, 100 Years Ago.
| From the st. Louis Globe Democrat
PARIS, June 23.-There has Just opened hero
| an exhibition OF clothes and stuffs taken from
graves OF Egyptian patricians and imperial
| Roman officials, ladies and gentlemen, who
| were buried in the second and third century
| respectively after Christ and these. being in n
Pa's saying. "Nothine, new under the sn sun n.
very latest Paris novelties in stufYs and colors
the fashio1abieness Of which makes them tho
tproperty Of favored few only, are not novel
must have been quite common on the
The ornaments found With eeH the Clothes Ties
were patry as to weight in gold and silver.
sS Hst he S9pseS wh in the
for in those days the rich never failed to pro-
,ide their beloved dead with few gold coins
| 70 pay their way in eternity: they also buried
their favorite jewels with them,
The graves were unearthed in Antionos.
Egypt at one time seat OF a Roman Governor.
! The well-known Psychologist. Gayet. superin-
tended the work and brought his finds to Paris.
showed. many, OF their occupants were chris
tians; The bodies OF the females were clothed
IN SIX ana wool. their undergarments being Of
When The six dresses were shown to Lyons
vented" he said; seems to have been known
sdded They knew all our tricks Of manu-
/ laiurlnE.
Pieces OF silk cut from the garment OF one
OF the Egyptian ladies were sent to the Govern
ment school for siik weaving. and the pupils
featuring place. The brighter ones concluded
that It was JacHuart work one Of the latest
products OF silk manufacturing. But" they
added. the color distribution is finer than we
have ever seen"
Another piece OF goods from the graves was
adjudged to be from tho factory OF Raute
Iisse, one Of the first weaveries Of France
centuries old grave clothes nj tli,
fashionable nue." Bysantinan." Il is called in
lyons. only finer more delicate and certainly
.I Here + dress Of nobleTGman buried a.
ion OF lrce. The ground color is white. with
blue polka dots aud =, heart-shaped dots Of
erred Tork the pattern Of which is
dress; also modern frock. The dress
The dess" has over thS
breast and is done up with many hounces and
eoa br hs pG 2ed s sf rdy %Se
collar and a hat made Of narrow bands OF red
silk sewed together. She had on tan shoes on
Your correspondent knows that he is chal-
Longing belle by the Above statements. but he
yatons made to the Government. The yellow
dress from the year 200 is edged with an en-
Of imitation precious stones now worn. APP
pearcd like bad ,counterfeits OF the Roman
Egyptian original.
Some little time ago an article appeared in
many papers stating hat the handkerchief was
an Invention OF the fifteenth century Fiddle.
sticks! NJ. Gayet assures us that the most Of
the female corpses excavated by him held
handkerchiefs between their fingers!
On the Paris boulevards one secs nowadays
many women wearing dresses with embroidery
in high relief It's so fashionable! Strange,
third century thought 50. too. as their dresses
prove And those big buttons. ,pastels of rocco;
the rage not long ago-our sisters at the begin
i ing OF the Christian era thought them pretty,
subjects. goddesses and nymphs instead Of
queens and great ladies'
at Wick Was ERE
Middle, Ages. They mnst have swept with
IN" as they wnss than
A woman, whom her tombstone designated
ssnlivenTsed by red and green frinees ana Dor,
also the sleeves. She wore u red leather belt
aapd linen skirt with fine. colored insertion,
handkerchief had many furheows. The comb
II y fer har was set With hrgh, pieces Of glass
one might think It had come from n'' i PHris
d iramc 6 t%;l This girl wore sEnet ring
suspended picture OF Venus.
Ing this life take up their earthly professions
IN their new abode; and therefore provided tho
dead with means of earning livelihood. This
musicians grave contained a bronze Tyre. cas-
tanets, and Il box Of rouge. some Of the latter
still intact.
Tho graves Of two circus riders were likewise
unearthed-each containing. beside the corpse
what was left of n leather saddle-not n side
saddle. by the way. The leather work or the
boots OF all the ancient ladies' is very beautiful:
they could not do better in Vienna or Russia
to-day One Of the circus women must have
been a Christian, being designated as the
santed Euphemia" Her corpse was dressed
in sea-green garment. with black fringes and
brads set shape upon the lower half Of the
skirt the color OF the braid Ia alternately
white and violet. The sleeves have embroidery
in white and green on violet ground. In this
grave pair OF house shoes were found similar
TO- those worn in Egypt o-day
The graves OF the men contained all sorts OF
implements. besides arms. One Of the ancient
corpses must have been n literary man when
In flesh. for he was accompanied by full outfit
OF writing material ink. stylus, parchment
and books of reference.
A thing which NJ Gnyet could not under
stand was the fact that all the men had black
and all the women had yellow hair. A chemist
solved the riddle; the hair OF the females was
dyed or bIeached. with a dye or bleach that
would be worth thousands in these days.
The Lyons Chamber Of Commerce is so much
interested in the silk finds that il has agreed
TO pay Tor further excavations in the same spot.
Hopes to Telephone from tho Pole.