The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03
EGYPTIAN NECKLACES
EXHIBIT OF SPECIMENS OF AN
 CIENT ORIENTAL JEWELRY.
Strings of Beads Almost as Old as the Human Race-ornaments from Pre-Chistian Tombs.

New York Tribune.
 An exhibition of ancient, modern and oriental jewelry of greatest interest was opened last week at the National Arts Club in West Thirty fourth street, to con- tinue through the month. Not only Is Fart nouveau represented. by 8 number of specimens from the atelier of J. Wal ter Dayton, of Ohio, but there is also collection of articles designed and wrought by Miss Luther, Mrs .Klapp. Miss Mary F. Pearson and Mrs. Henry Butterworth; there are oyer three hun dred rings fom the collection of Alexan- der w. Drake, a case of crosses. rosaries and necklaces lent by Mrs. William NJ. Chase and a large number of Egyptian and early Greek bead necklaces from the collections of Mrs. Garrett Chatfield Pier and Mrs. Frankie H. Bosworth. It will be seen that the exhibition strikes a pretty broad gamut.
 Beads are as old as the human race said Mrs. Pier. in speaking of her neck laces. They were made almost before instruments of warfare. To go back in history as far as one can pluck out of the bosom of time these articles of per- | sonal adornment is the charming thing about it to me. You find the same i'm pulse in the beads of Egypt and in the beads of our North American Indians.
 
 blue"-here Mrs. Pier took up a string of Liliputian quoits, about one-third of an inch in diameter and of almost fairy like thinness-"these little disks are cut precisely as our Indians cut their wam- pun, in the days before the Yankee trader began manufacturing if for them on Staten Island. That is what interests me so in beads-their universality and their closeness to the very springs of' our race life"
 Jewels of Another Age.
 Mrs. Pier has spent the last three oS four winters in Cairo. and some of the necklaces in her collection were brought to her with the fresh earth still clinging to them. After washing one new acqui- sition Mrs. Pier says her hands were perfumed for days with the spices and ointments which still chung to the beads. And that necklace was 5000 years old.
 Among the particularly interesting pieces in Mrs Piers collection Is a neck lace composed entirely of small fruits and flowers. These were made only in one place Tel-el-Amarna. under one King Khu-en-Aten. The necklace Is over g.. 900 years old. Perhaps the prettiest thing about them is the fact that each flower and each fruit was nodded perfectly that it has been worked out and identi- fled by Percy Newbury by means oS funeral wreaths, carvings and other rep resentations of the fuana of ancient Egypt.
 The necklace in the photograph is com posed of large. irregular shaped, fiat beads, opaque and of a rich orange pink color. They are very rare and date from 1562-l22S B. C. A famous necklace which was bought in London is in the form or little close fringe composed of red sard pendants and white glass ampho- rae alternating. handsome gold oulla forms the pendant. This necklace Wv found at Asianoe. and. says Mrs. PlcrA is charming to wear. One very valua- ble string of beads is of lapis lazui, blue paste and gold. It is thought to be from d royal tomb. Q
 Cylindrical Beads.
 The earliest beads were made Tn the form of long, slender cylinders. A neck lace that dates from nearly W B. l.. shows d succession of lapis laZuli cyltn- Gers with three pendants In the tront' one Is an amulet in the shape of heart, one Is n Tat" amulet. meaning stability, and the centre pendant is a scarab. the most important and sacred of all, standing as 1t does for the immortality of the soul. A particularly attractive necklace, dating from the days of the Ptolemys, is made I'D of little square and oblong beads of gold lapis lazuli and feldspar. Near the front are four groups of little flat gold hcads-double beads, they are, growing side by side like so many Sfamese twins. The effect of this necklace Is of double string of oblong beads caught together by the square beads and the little double gold beads.
 Some of these strings of beads are just as they came from the grave. save for a little cleaning, while others have been re- strung Some. like the necklace of blue disks, have been bought bead by bead. The blue disks were rare and expensive. few of the necklaces have been built up by Mrs. Pier-recompose0, one might almost say as, for example, the Greek necklace of carbuncle beads, to which Mrs. Pier has added as pendants long gold and carbuncle earrings of the same period and workmanship.
 Popularity of Necklaces. ''These necklaces are all the time being discovered" said Mrs. Pier The Arabs turn them up every day. The reason why the soil of Egypt fairly teens with them Is that the ancient Egyptian woman wore