Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-17
SEEING THE FAIR
 IN DETAIL

dious Prooess--The Mystic Eyes of Egypt Have a Bright Look sEven
 After Forty five Centuries = Bronze Mirrors and Alabaster vases--An Old l Boat That Possibly Was Buried With
 Sea captain--Ths Game of Disis
 Which the Indians PIayed--SheIl Hoe
 Gardening-How the Indian Mounds Were Built-secret of Making Rpne
 Fishhooks.
 ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE BY
 MARK BENNITT.l
 Persons having an unsuitable curios- ity to pry into the family affairs of an cient Egyptians may do so without embarrassment in the Egyptian section of anthropology. Here is rich Egyp- tian at dinner. Everything is life size except the dinner. The scene illus trated is in fly time. While the mas ter sits at table dancing girl enter tains him. A shaven slave brings the dinner things, while another defends his master against the winged foe of the season. All the furniture is copied exactly from originals of the period, about 2500 B. O., without permission from the original maker. It is here 1 that the original frame of cane seat chair 4,500 years old may be seen. Another group reveals lady at her | toilet. At the moment she is standing. I She holds polished bronze mirror at l arms length and gazes at it intently. Has she just discovered the first gray hair or the trace of new wrinkle? Her maid sits upon the floor holding the gown, awaiting the command of her mistress. Here, too, are fine copies of ancient Egyptian boudoir furniture. A third group shows several people engaged in the manufacture of beer. You can almost hear them say, T new CT worked so hard for drink in my life" Beer in those days, matter of 1 forty-five centuries back, was brewed from stale bread. The Egyptians must have been temperate people. How could they have made enough beer Or other liquors for sustained in, ebriety?
 may add that these figures are mod. eled from living Egyptians, except the l heads, which are reproduced from an. cient statues, so that the scenes are ae accurate as historical knowledge can make them.
 See those eyesl How intently they look at you! Out of those eyes the spirit of some dead Egyptian was sup posed to look some 4,bO0 years ago. Opposite the eyes, which are upon the sides of wooden coffin, lay the head of the believer who went to his rest in I the hope that his spirit would have a .l peaceful existence through eternity. I But ideas change. Superstition is now the name of what was. once a sacred faith Christian hands, with MOhamme- dan sanction, have opened the graves and brought to light once more the corpse and the painted eyes. Here is the empty coffin at the world fair to tell story of the faith of an age so remote that we must wait 600 years before the beginning of the Christian era will mark the middle of the perioa that has elapsed since this coffin was 1 made. The hieroglyphics of the Egyp- tian language decorate the box from end to end, all clear and distinct, not ! withstanding that the colors were laid on 2,5O0 years before Christ. The mys- tic eye was everywhere before the Egyptian. It was a favorite subject for the makers of faience as well as l for the painter and decorator. It was the all seeing eye-the conscience look ing at one from without ana correct ing his thought and deed.
 | < ~ : 4 < | 2 ' t T Tn an adjoining case may be seen some original bronze mirrors taken from Egyptian tombs of the period R5OO B. O. Here are necklaces of car helian beads dating from 2000 B. Q. to the Christian era. Here are specimens of Roman blown glass of the period POO B. O. A sandstone statuette of xing Amonhotep holds prayer tab let in front of 1t containing prayer 10 Anon in hieroglypnics. The god dess Isis appears in bit of sculptured aapis lazuli, and a child deity in an other bit of the same deep blue stone.
 Here are some alabaster vases, 4000 to 1 200 B. Q. One is nearly twenty inches high, being ohe of four taken from 8 tomb. Tn embalming the ancient Egyp- tian the heart, liver, lungs and ston1- ach were removed and the cavities were filled with mineral pitch or bitumen and aromatic herbs; then wrapped and laid away, to be dug ur some thousands of years later for our enlightenment The parts removed were sealed in alabaster or other vases and also placed in the tomb.
 When an old Egyptian had some wine l made for medicinal and family use he felt so proud of 1t that he had his name made part of the jug handle. Here are some of the handles, the names stil on them.
 Here are some masks of the Greek and Roman period, 600 to 200 B. c Here is one of the four sacred boats taken from a tomb-probably the tomt of a great admiral or sea captain, fol who else should be honored thus The form of boat is not at all bad, even 1T the light or what we know today ol correct models. Tn the same case ars two pieces of prehistoric Egyptian pot