The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-08

books were devoted to an account Of the rrvtb;o,,
history of all known nations down to the +ir7os e
the Trojan war which occurred one thousand ~,
hundred years before the Redemption. The nov.
ten books covered the period from the Trojan WOO.
to the death of Alexander; and the rest of rb.
books covered the campaigns of Caesar
Diodorus, in his history of the Egyptian aa,,
paign. wrote comprehensively of the manners sr i
customs of the Nile people. His most famous M.
sage is the following tribute to the Women i
Egypt:
at was proved that the queen attained to GREAT
err authority and honor than the king, and tb.,
among private individuals the wife should be fl,
master of the husband. for men when marvin .
agree in the contract concerning dowrv THAT In II
things they will be obedient to the wife"
Time and again have scholars. historians am
antiquarians attacked the Greek historian for h;
statement regarding the authority of the wife ov.
the husband among the early Egyptians but al, r5a,
have never succeeded in proving his assertions nj
solutely false they have revenged themselves by o+
lacking him savagely for not telling the trrtF
This is usually the way with critics who are unab
to refute a statement. However. the critics ar
now COMPOUNDED by report that comes out
Madrid, Spain. 1t seems that musty papvrus Ca
old Egyptian manuscript was lately found anon
the archives of the Royal Library. which Dror
eonelusively that Diodorus told the truth when 4
wrote that the Egyptian woman was the high
muckymuck of the state instead Of the man.
The papyrus records a marriage contract ma
in 341 B. c., and found originally in the ruins |
Thebes 1t shows that the custom among Il
Egyptians in that age was for the husband to- co
tribute dover to the wife instead of. as anon
modern peoples for the wife to bring dover
the husband. Here is the excerpt from the tran
lation
''If I repudiate thee as husband so that hal
thee and love another than thee l give thee tw
tenths plus one-haf tenth silver pieces equal ii
and One-quarter slater.
Il cede to thee one-third of whatsoever 7 sba
acquire together with thee during the time thou Il
married to me.
81 will do every word which is written above i
cording to the present document.
Il will supply it with sixteen witnesses.
Il will hand it over to thee
Il shall not be able to change the date Of it will
out legal decision or a word with thee
And thus is the hoary old Greek after cons
time indicated
But, furthermore, we have it on the author
of st. Augustine, who tells us III his wonderful boz
THE City of God" that in the dawning of cviliz
ton the women of Athens enjoyed the right to
cord their votes at the polls. 1t was only when
Greeks became civilized nation that they ing
lantly turned upon the sufragettes and killed
law which accorded them the franchise
All of which goes to prove that there is MOTH
new under the sun-not even the new woman
proves also the degeneracy of our times as i'll
trated by what the London cockney, AIRY. said
other day to his pal:
'Arry-Wot's yer 'urry. Bill"
Bnl-Pve got to go to work.
'Arry-Work? Why, wot's the matter with
missis? Amt she we'll