The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-10

, ting the worst of it even four thousand
years ago.
The carvings and paintings which do
the monarchs receiving homage from
terrified subjects or else mingling. on
terms Of equality with the principal
deities Of the period. Illustration No. 3
is very good specimen. King Anne
nopshis and his wife are seen seated on
their square built Royeroft thrones.
incense before them and sing their
praises and tell them that the people
are with the administration no matter
how the senate may carry on. There
was no race prejudice in those days.
The queen is shown to be coal-black
seems to, be fybrush Of the very
kind that we used all the time we were
up the Nile, and if the article in her
other hand is not cocktail glass then
the artist has wilfully libeled her.
nd NO. is interesting as fashion
making offers to the hawk-headed god
and the goddess Hathor. This picture
will appeal to women, inasmuch as 1t
gives us a correct likeness Of Cleopatra,
the man trapper. No one can dispute
the fact that she is beautiful, but how
about the combination Of an empress
gown with habit back? Is it not
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call it altogether subduedf
Another well-preserved painting to be
found in the temple at Edfou reveals
the innate modesty Of the Ptolenlies.
The king (No. 81 is represented as be-
ing crowned by the goddesses of the
south and the north--that is, Of upper
and lower Egypt. These divinities seem
to be overcome with admiration Of the
athletic monarch. One has her hand
resting on his shoulder, as If she hated
to see him go. The other, having just
fitted him with his new gourd-shaped
hat, has both hands in the aiI, and you
can almost hear her say, 'oh myl It
Seti T. was another shrinking violet.
In one of his private three-sheet adver-
1 tisements, No. 6, he has the sublime ef-
frontery to represent the great goddess
Hathor as holding his hand tenderly and
offering him the jeweled collar which
she is wearing. Notice the upllfted
hand; He is supposed to be saying,
would it be proper for me to accept
jewelry from one of your sex9o OF
course, there never was any Hathor,
and if there had been she wouldn It have
hobnobbed with man who had his
private interviews done into oil paint
ers that we have seen in Egypt help to
give us a line on the ancient kings.
If there was any one Of them that
failed to get the swelled head soon after
mounting the thrones the hierog1yphs
are strangely silent regarding his case.
They were vain, self-laudatory lot,
and all of them had that craving for
the center of the stage and the hot glare
of the spot light which Is still to BIO
found in isolated cases.
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{ After all is said and done can We
blame them? Rameses wanted to be re-
membered and talked about, and he laid
a.. his plans accordingly. He carved the
record of his long and successful reign
on the unyielding granite and distribu-
ted his pictures with the careful prodi-
gality Of a footlight favorite. What has
Been the result His name is house
hold joke all over the world. People
who never heard of Professor Harry
Thurston Peck or Marie Coreli or the
present khedive Of Egypt, know all
. about Rameses the Great, altho no two
of them pronounce it the same. Accord.
ing to Egyptian usage the hard pedal
is used on the first SYLLABLE Ram: "
Perhaps you have heard the song In
the DAYS of Old Rameses." That story
had paTesis. Are you on9 Are you ona
There is no word in the English Ian.
guage that will rhyme with Rameses
IF I wanted to write an Egyptian poem
I should select "Mut' as title.