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for their artillery. that the original
portrait is perhaps forever lost. but the
mouth still shows its graceful curve;
and when viewed rightly the race sun
has a beautiful, calm. dignified express
sion. Sir CASTOR Maspero eloquently
describes it as follows:
This wonderful human headed mon
ster still preserves an expression Oh
sovereign strength and greatness. ne
eyes look out afar with a look of in
tense and profound thoughtfulness, the
mouth still wears a smile. the whole
countenance shows power ana repose
The art which conceived ana carved
this prodigious statue was a finished
art How many centuries had 1T taken
to arrive at this degree of maturity and
perfection?"
consider that one gets the best ef-
feet when the full moon Is above and
just before II, the observer viewing 1T
not quite full face. preferably to the
right. The more one thoughtfully studies
the sphinx, the more one admires 1t.
This also applies to our mighty pyramid.
l have known a writer or two actually
leave the Gizeh plateau disappointed with
both the Sphinx and Great Pyramid. They
haven't enough poetry in their souls to
study. to reflect, hence they do not UNI
derstand. Dean Stanley said:
There IL something stupendous In the
sight Of that tremendous head.
1t 1t were the giant representative OF
royalty. then 1t fitly guards the greatest
of royal sepulchers." And Miss Amelia
b. Edwards believed that the Great
Sphinx may we'll guard the tombs OF
kings and princes of the first and second
dynasties. buried far beneath il in the
desert sands.
Unfortunately the face is too disfgured
to enable us to trace the original fea-
lures. Psychologists will not, there
King Chephren of the second pyramid at
Gizeh. II. E. Marriott Pacha, who in 1853
found nine large, well preserved. superb
statues OF Chephren In the we'll OF the
adjoining Valley Temple of Chephren.
the so-called Temple of the Sphinx, saw
no resemblance between these statues
and the disfgured face of the inscrutable
sphinx
The first known excavation around this
Thotmes the Fourth. about 1853 b. C..
who is said to have also repaired it. The
accompanying photo shows the granite
tablet or stella placed there by this prince.
on which Is beautifully sculptured the
record of a remarkable dream he had
while reposing with his retinue one noon
In the shadow of the colossal head. The
Great Sphinx, covered by the encroach-
ing sands right up to its neck. address
ing Thotmes while he slept, begged him
to release him, promising to bestow upon
him the double crown of upper and lower
Egypt. Deeply impressed by the dream.
the prince at once made the historic eX-
cavatiOn. but unfortunately lived to rule
as Pharoah only four or five years.
As the granite slab, or stella, on which
the dream was inscribed was already
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}, GOWN.

TN far-off corner in Mount Olivet
l cemetery there is a grave near the
roadway that is plain mound or green
like the numberless others around 1t.
And yet one glance at the name on the
simple headstone is sufficient to cause
the passerby to stop a moment in silent
contamination Mrs. Surratt' is the
single inscription on this granite SLAB
and it marks the final resting place Of
the woman whose tragic death has for
fortv-eight years been the subject OF
public and private debate. Tomorrow
will be the anniversary of her execution
which took place July Z, 1863, in the old
penitentiary on the arsenal grounds.
The life of Mrs. Surratt before her
connection with the Lincoln conspirators
contained no element or romance or SEN
sation. There was nothing unusual in
her youth or middle age She was just
an ordinary woman absorbed In her Narl-
Gus homely duties and devoted TO the IN
terests that husband and children re-
ouire She was born in Washington III
1SaO and as a child was quiet in taste
and manners. Her parents thought she
might possibly follow religious life, and
at an early age they sent her to Alex
andria, where her education was oDtaih-
ed in a seminary.
When rather young girl she married
John Surratt, prosperous farmer, ana
the two began their welded life on
farm at Surrattsville. about ten miles
below Washington.
After the death of her husband she
took charge Of his work. in which she was
assisted by her eldest son John. 1t was
through this boy that Booth came to the
Surratt home and began the friendship
which proved fatal to all the members OF
the household. About that time Mrs. Sur
raft had rented her farm and taken
large rooming house in Washington.
While out one evening with two of his
mothers boarders John was introduced
TO Booth. The youth seemed fascinated
by the superior will and intellect of the
actor and their acquaintance ripened into
friendly intimacy as the days went by.
tn PAYNE. Herold and Atzerodt also Booth
extended his influence and these simple
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this red color was quite bright and
fresh. In 1919, q year after Capt.
Caviglias' famous excavation, DIR.
Clarke found patches OF a heavy coat
ing Of red ochre. derived from oxide Of
iron.
A Mr.. Mackay recently discovered at
This grand monolith. the largest ala
baster object ever transported. for no
such stone is found in this part of
Egypt, measured twenty-siX feet long
and fourteen feet high, and weighed
ninety tons. Unfortunately it does not
show even one inscription. Prof. Petrie.
however. considers 1t was carved about
100 b. c.
The nose Of the sphinx was so mutt
lated by fourteenth century fanatical
sheiks, who made the face a target
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Tango garden parties are feature of the
craze .uarthe Urban is one OF those Tor
tunate persons with whom eVerythlhs
succeeds At once leader of Paris fash-
ions and a governmental star OF dancing.
she is better equipped for this sort OF
analysis than either dressmaner or SO
ciety matron.
The photographer had just passed. L
saw the lady posed in an afternoon gown
of draped taffeta and ballroom creation
of embroidered mousseline de sole that
really had to be signed Paquin 10 make
me believe that such bare simplicity couid
was utterly devoid of decoration or loose
ends Its draped lines sre its adorn-
ment." said 4arthe Urban, Just a
tango luncheon gown, you know, short
dance between each course.
''To dance the tango" said Marthe Ur-
BAN .one must be free from embarrass-
ing infiuences-as far as dress is con-
cerned. Any one can learn to dance the
tango; ii is the easiest dance. but to
dance the tango properly is just as diff
cult as In former years 1t was TO dance
the mazurka. Just as no man in those
days could dance the mazurka properly
unless he was in uniform and had trim
figure so now no woman can dance the
tango and look graceful If her gown Is
not of the severest simplicity. Indeed,
she added, "the tango properly danced in
a ballroom serves as a good illustration
of the so-called eurythmcs invented by
jacques Dalcroze, and which are making
such furore'
What is this dance which marks an
epoch comparable to that of bridge whist
in another department of social activity?
Ballroom dancing had become tiresome.
Hostesses complained that young men
would not dance. Then came what they
call "the grizzly bear" which from its
very character could not be graceful
Young men took up the "grizzy' be-
cause it was fun. but they soon tired of
II, and what is now danced under the
name of the grizzly in Paris is very
easy glide step which replaces the firing
Steps of polka and two-step.
Yet the tango had only to appear to
triumph. Far from being immoral, it
brought necessary repose into ballroom
dancing.
Repose. All. repose. In previous years
when any but sixteen-year-old girls
waltzed or polkaed or galoped they got
tired. Men especially after twenty-four
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long, and neatly incased in dressed lime
stone: length OF head, 80 feet; width Of
face IA feet; nose. feet 3 inches long;
the ears just my height, !, feet 1914
inches. The forehead was originally or
namented by the urieus. or sacred asp.
part of which Is still visible 1t has a
well preserved headdress or wig the hair
plated in triple bands. peculiar to the
twelfth dynasty. Now the .Stela Of
Cheops Daughter" a reliable stone record
found in 1858 by III. T.. Marriott Pacha.
refers To the restoration of the head
dress. and the new works may have been
craven by twelfth dynasty sculptors in
the twelfth dynasty fasf ion, and not like
the original This triple plait design.
which some psychologists consider repre-
sents skiItfulIy folded linen. is also iden-
tical with that en- the large alabaster head
Of Myceranus (son Of Chephren), found
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and the jennings fine Many of these
tneory. in 1905, / took many samples
OF cement and mortar from the sphinx
reparations. and the exterior and the in
terror of the great pyramid In analyz-
ing these Mr.. Lucas. director Of the
government laboratories at Cairo found
noth lots to be practically the same.
ms might indicate that Cheops did re-
pair the sphinx. Prof. Maspero shows
that the Ptolemies and Caesars also
repaired the monument
prominent Psychologist recently in
formed US that Cheops quarried from the
great limestone hill, Of which the sphinx
is part, the stones forming the core
masonry Of this great pyramid. l find.
however. that even these core stones
are far superior to the soft shaley Lime
stone from which the sphinx Ia chiseled
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shoulder of the sphinx wien the drfll
broke and was never recovered
In 1869 II. +. Demands Pacha cleared
the entire front Of the monument in honor
of H. /. NJ. the Empress Eugene y
france, who visited Egypt that year as
a guest of H. n. the khedive in conntc-
ton with the opening of the Suez cana
The accompa nying photograph. taken 4.
tnat time, show more details than any
previously published.
IN the early eighties. Prof Pctrie
while carefully examining Tho sphinx.
pierced its body with long boring rndy
but without results
ana lastly. Sir Castor Ma,poro. fully
nnanceo. began promising excavation
winch. unfortunately. h was obliged t"
abandon. owing. | understand Ia tnc sad
death of Mrs. Maspero al Paris
MY discovery, in 1891. Of the fragment
or the sphinx beard referred 10 nae
merely an amusing accident. for ~, =
held a concession to excavate this strange
and much discussed monument
May 81, 1905 a large meeting was ho,d
at the Egyptian Institute. Cairo. presided
over by his excellency Abbate Pacla
and attended by many of the most in
fiuential men of Cairo. in support OF my
project thoroughly to excavate the great
sphinx. Mr.. harry Favarger tho gov
p
monument. The principal speaker was
Judge Charles Royle, who pointed ont
the Importance of the proposed excava-
ton. 1t was proposed to clear 4 great
trench go feet long. and go feet wide
from the level of the cultivated land
right up to and around the sphinx This
involved the removal Of $4,000 cubic
meters of debris. the estimated cost Of
which was $4,000 The owners of the
three native houses which il would have
been necessary to remove valued their
property so highly that decided. with
the approval OF Sir Castor Maspero. 10
trench southeast instead OF due east, thus
avoiding the demolition Of the three
houses. This would leave the houses On
the apex of a high sand-hil. and their
fate would soon be as those houses
built upon the sand"
Much to our regret. our great project
failed. because our committee would not
accept certain conditions under which
the excavation could be made. BY
trenchfng southeast the work could lie
done for about ST.. 800. But better stu,
HI. Z. Coles Pacha, director general o.
the government prisons department, who
is still much interested in my project,
has kindly promised me the services OF
some 800 able bodied prisoners at one
plaster g cents per day: this trifie for
extra guarding. Should we some day
avail ourselves OF his excellency's offer
the great excavation could be made for
about 5000. i understand that at pres
ent the monument is included in con-
cession held by some German Egyptol-
ogists. but they are not likely TO eXca-
vate 1t.
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considerably aged at that period, 1888
B. c., 1t is evident that the granite and
alabaster Temple OF the Sphinx $50 called.
from which the slab was taken. greatly
antedated that period When l left
Egypt in 1909. after nearly ten years OF
research work. the slowly but steadily
drifting Sahara sands had completely
buried this interesting relic of antiquity,
and If left alone it is but a question OF
time when the sphinx itself will again
be covered right up TO the neck, just as
Napoleon found it in 1ISS.
In the early Christian era the Emperor
Hadrian cleared the front of the sphinx
and constructed broad two-hight stone
stairway and stone platform. some 10
feet long. which led down-not up. as
some writers have mentioned-to the
small granite altar between the paws.
His majesty. of course. discovered. but
did not disturb, the Thotmes. the fourth
stella.
In 1918, just coo years after the caliph
Mamoun forced his way through l23 feet
of core masonry into the great pyramid.
Capt. Caviglia. an Italian in charge of an
English ship at Alexandria. made the best
modern excavation. yet, strange enough,
he scarcely touched the sphinx Itself. as
may be seen by the accompanying plan.
Like Thotmes ". he found this
great human-headed lion encountered
right up to the neck, which was the same
condition in which Napoleon found It.
After exposing tile stella and clearing
the paws Cayiglia discovered and fol-
lowed a stone platform dating from the
early Roman period. 130 A. ID. This led
I'D to q flight of stone steps. at the top
of which another platform led to another
but shorter flight of steps-Ihe Emperor
Hadrian stairway. If Capt. Caviglia had
confined his attention to the sphinx itself
and had not been decoyed away from IL
by this Roman stairway, he might have
solved the riddle or this mystery OF the
ages But again the sphinx family
smiled.
Cayiglia discovered a small temple be-
tween the paws, also a granite altar re-
tanning marks of fire. probably the effects
of burnt offerings. Important ceremonies
were doubtless held here. The figure OF
an owl. and three small stones which
had belonged to the altar he also dis
covered. The small, crudely worked fig
ure Of a 35-inch sphinx, found facing
the Thotmes " stella, he kindly pre-
scented to the British Museum, London,
as well as the other nnds. including
piece Of the plated beard.
Sunburnt brick walls held back the
sands on both sides of the stairway. The
stones that lined the inner faces OF these
contained Greek inscriptions abiding to
other buildings other Greek inscriptions.
In alteration Of the sphinx, We're found
upon one of the paws. Working from
March to June with from GO to 100 ma
tives, he expended about $3.50. For
three reasons he was obliged to give up
his work. severe ophthalmia, the expira-
ton Of his leave Of absence and lack OF
funds.
In 1897 Gen. Howard-Vyse who had
been excavating at the great pyramid,
bored for twenty-seven feet into the right
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/ believe that every foot of the Sc 600. 900
cubic feet of stone in the great pyramid
came from Mokattam. Tourah and Mas
sarah. and the quarry marks both at the
quarries and in the great pyramid prac
tically show tits.
Facing the east. this superb specimen
of ancient sculptural art. anatomicaliy
perfect and cut entirely from the living
stone. ma jesticaIly rears its massive and
well preserved head some 300 yards south
Cd 1t Of the pyramid. It's body is 40
feet long, height 10 feet. paws 80 feet
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years of age could not turn. turn, turn
without losing wind little. Young men
of twenty-four had come to say Il have
stopped dancing" But they dance the
tango Why? Because the tango elm
mated the Jump and brought about an
easy, plastic movement
The tango compared with the waltz Is
the easiest Of dances The waltz is the
hardest. Much of the tango's popularity
is due to its easy character-easy to
learn, easy TO dance.
1.-The tango can be danced objectiona-
bly," says Marthe Urban. "All you re
quire is vulgar people to dance 1t. Such
were the unhappy beginnings Of this
marvellous dance among the roughs and
toughs Of the Argentine"
What poet. Of rhythm and motion in
those slums invented 1t?
Mystery OF grace and beauty" says
Marthe Urban, the tango had only to
be taken up by ladies and gentlemen to
burst its ugly chrysalis shell and float,
a lovely butterfly. upon the perfumed
breeze. If the grizzly and the machiche
are essentially Objectionable, the tango.
now that it has come into its own. is
seen very mysteriousy to bring its own
safeguards in the necessary positions OF
the dancers. In waltZing you must have
your arm around the girls waist. and to
lead her you must keep her close to you.
In the tango, while the positions OF the
mans right arm and the left arm of
the girl are the same as In all ballroom
dancing. the step itself demands that
the partners keep apart from each other.
One Of the prettiest figures of the tango
may be described as the backward move
ment. when the left arm Of the man and
the right hand of the woman are wedged
in between the two partners.
The photographer was there. had him
take a snapshot I'm the garden.
Il adore the tango for its innate beau
ties and the grace which 1t will bring
back to society," said the graceful bal
lerina of the opera who has younger sis
tiers. But I would insist on dancing it
the distance apart which We are posed IN
the photographs. l may mention. for
comparison the swing partners" in the
old-fashioned quadrilles. 1t is fun but
can you imagine it Objectionable? The
tango Is the easiest possible dancing be-
cause it lacks al, elements of haste. If
danced properly. it is equal to the min
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ter shows that the sphinx existed at the
time of Kufu tCheops). In fact. this
great pharaoh is said to have repaired
ii. We believe that at even that remote
date, 300 b. c.. the sphinx had become
picturesquely aged. The wind-driven
sand and the rain wash, cutting into it's
weaker strata, lined it's neck, shoulders
and sides with deep, irregular burrows.
DIR. Bulge and others. including myself.
believe that Cheops carefully repaired
and restored the monument. the stones
being of good grade, small well laid
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by Prof Reisner near the third Gizeh
pyramid.
Pieces of the reddish colored plated
stone beard are now in the British
Museum. London. and in 1901 ] found,
near the left shoulder. another frag-
ment, some two and a half feet long
and about a foot square, badly chip
ped but still showing the plated de-
sign. BY but light excavation this
could be recovered. We believe this
great monument of antiquity was all
led. and up to the fifteenth century
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The Argentine Tango
Has Taken Paris BY
Storm II Designers OF
Gowns Forced TO Con-
tend With Popular
Demand for Special
Dancing Dire S S
Sterling Heilig Tells
What Changes Have
Been Made and What
Ones Are Predicted
The True Tango as
Danced IN tho french
Capital.
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which lay in the hearts of the people
OF ancient Egypt. and which prompted
them to the achievement of their mas
terpieces. as. for instance. the sphinx.
We have gone far toward "A knowledge
OF the Egyptians. their greatness; the
gods TO whom they raised their tenn
Piles are known to us by name: we
are familiar with most Of the forms
that guided them In their worst ip; We
know their language. buf still. i'm con-
nection with the sphinx, we arc no nearer
to the solving of the mystery. Nearly
all the other figures of Egyptian history
are repeated in different parts of the
country. but this most wonderful menu-
ment stands alone Perhaps it was in
tended to impersonate the eternal mystery
of being: perhaps she is the headpiece to
guard the resting place of great mon
arch. or perhaps she is fulfilling some
purpose of the ancients of which, even
in our widest irnaginngs. We have never
dreamed. Or II may be again, that n
chance stroke of the sculptor's chisei gave
birth To- the wonderful expression Of life
which marks her feat I often won
der where the present day Egyptians get
their idea that the sphinx stands tn
watch the world fading into chaos the
last day, and that she Will he the last
thing to disappear.
1t is curious that / have never been
able 10 secure one honest expression of
opinion from n native regarding the
sphinx. The drtgomen who make il
their business TO talk of it. and tell
weird tales of il. will say much, but there
is nothing of truth or Of honest belief
in anything they say But the uninter-
ested native will not talk of it. or, If lie
does, he will repeat the balderdash of the
dragomen. My Arabs for instance. would
romance for hours about any other place
or thing in Egypt-about the sphinx,
never. ! wonder il ii is because the
mystery OF the giant watcher is as plain
~ felt by them as ii is by most Egyp-
tians VI o have studied IT. They seem
to be out OF their depth and to be half
afraid to speak. lest they incur its wrath.
1t Is indeed 10 them the Father of Ter
ror"
No mention is made of the sphinx by
any writer or traveller before the
was covered by the sands of the en-
croaching desert when Herodotus Wis
tied Egypt In $50 Il. c., he did not see
It, nor was IL even mentioned to him.
This Is. indeed strange, considering
that the priests had so much to say
about the pyramids Herodotus did
not, therefore, refer to ii. feel sure
that the sphinx had been covered for
ages. Who discovered it, and when?
wrongly believed il 10 be the tomb of
Amasts. king of the twenty-sixth
dynasty. Some consider IL to be the
tomb of Osiris EGyptologists greatly
differ to its age. dating II from
5000 10 $500 r. c. Marriott Pacha be-
lieved IL to be of greater antiquity than
the pyramids. An inscription found by
Marriott I'm 1858 near the small pyramid
OF Princess Hanetsen. Cheops daush-
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Comment From South Bend.

uDOIITICS." said Mayor Goetz of
South Bend, apropos Of an unex-
pected fusion-'poltics makes strange
bedfellows.''
With a smile he added:
But they're always willing to lie on
their own side"
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BY DOW covINGToN, F. R. G. 8.

NE many promi-
nent Psychologists.
| still consider the
origin of the
sphinx the world s
Il Q 9 y est mystery,
and excepting the
great pyramid. it
is the most fasci-
mating moment in
Egypt. According
TO the highest au-
thorities ii is not
IA e. ~AFL-
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ARl.S society IS
away beyond any
Objectionable tan
90 cItit hes. leans
~ pushes
They are not the
true tango.
The true tango
is 4 tango which
society can use.
and all the essen
tails are in this
-.