Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-02-07
EGYPTIAN LIKE US
Ancient Subject Of Pharaoh Had
-. ~ Ideas In Use Today. \
FINE COMB AND BABY SHOES.
Woman's Workbasket, Wigs For Ceres
@nnonial Uses JeweIry and Beads In
Common Use In Present Generations
Were Popular Then. !.

haNing Lived i'll time. SO remote from
our own that they can only be of in
! tereSt to those who make study of
history. sBut on Investigating "a little
we Shalt find that SO many Of their.
! possessions are still eXtant and they
are 50 obviously the prototypes OF OBJ
/ ieCts with which we are familiar at
the present day that that ancient peo-,
! pie NLi eople.tO seem quite near to
us, said L. INerett Holt, instructor in
design ut the Heron Art institute, In =
the Indianapolis News. -'...' '"' 80 .
"At the institute one may see basalt
vases. and bowls, dark green in color
and Eqf cAquiSite shape, belonging as ?
far back lis 1900 b. c. Other vessels ,
are made Of aabaster or diorite. The
T ;tlabaSter we may imply to be the Same
material of. which the box was made
which held the ointment used by the
women 70 battle the, feet Of our Lord.
There is II lOrpilyry, vase nfottled. BLACK
and white with suggestions Of green
and coral pink, Another bowl is Of a
reddish stone called haematite, the
| tdlc vi w llltu Is OOtO II. I.
',',All of thesis stones, with the seXcep-
! ton of the alabaster, are Of the hard
est quality The vessels created from
them We're on the outside, wholly shap-
ed by hand without turning Of any de- F.
scrptiOn or even circular grinding.
The skill or the workers in stone is al
most Incredible but that we have the
actual examples of their art still with
us. There is Il vase from IlierakOnpo-
lis made from black and white Syenitc,
two feet across and sixteen inches
deep highly polished, worked so thin
that it can be lifted with one finger.
Had it been left solid it's weight would
have been 400 pounds. Vases were
made of pottery as wei. as stone and
also Of bronze. We have one example
at least of bronze, a bowl green with
age, dating from the twentieth dynasty
and coming from Naucrates!
There are fragments of uttered
ware decorated in yellow green and
brownish yellow and other pieces Of a
most chaihling blue. One piece Of
glazed pottery we have in its entirety
a blue bowl belonging in the eighteenth
dynasty.
But wliat makes Nc feelr assef~t the
ancient Egyptians really did cn@a live
and breathe as we do 40 .te things or
personal nature which they nave yeyr
| behind How fortunate fer is f1aSr
custom of burying with their dead Any
things ,needful while zone us IN the
body. For that is how we are possess4
ed of what we have from that remote
| civilization It largely has come from
the toiibs go carefully prepared for
the comfort of their occupants and
then so carefully sealed that the body
might not be, disturbed I'm
At the. institute is Il double comb
dated 1900 B. c., the teeth on one
| side finer than on the other. 1t is
made exactly in the shape of the fine
| tooth comlg' swith which so many of US
can remember having our hair unmer-
| cifullv pulled when we were children.
AS we look at it how glad we are that
! they have passed out of fashion now.
And those little flat pieces Of slate are
paint palettes which were once III very
! general use. Were all the people art
lists? Oh. no. On those little palettes
thew pprepared the paints for their
| faces, but we hasten to say, as does
the card beside them in the case, for
ceremonial uses e-' ,-s.v... :'t
"And that phrase explains the
strange method Of pertraying the hair
and beard on Egyptian statuary. lt
represents wigs for ceremonial uses
| When about to attend functions or
state it was customary to have the.
| face got up in what seems to us
very odd manner and to wear false
! hair. the arrangement of which varied
! according to ones rank i'll society.
| Much iewelrX WAS Worn, and beads
! then. as now, were popular. We have
string of beads made from carnelian \
and Others of IA blue material ana YET
others green Weaving was also prac-
ticed and we have IN example i'll
two handled reed basket the same
shape as our Gown women now line
with silk and use MS work bags" Ahd''
how. near and personal shoes seem,
especially babies Shoes How many a
mother has Il little pair laid away
somewhere. Here is Il SANDAL, the
Egyptian substitute for the" modern"
shoe, and it is a'sniall one, which"niay
have, troddeH the desert sands under
the foot Of some child, . - '''","
1.-THE little objects, SC. small thatyone
might overlook them altogether or Mt
least not .aealike their interest, are yet
well worth deliberate consideration.
I.The little blue or greenish images are "
amulets supposed to possess the power
to preserve the Wearer from the mali
cious Intentions of evil spirits They
were worn around: the neck Of the liy-
ing and buried. II large number in each
tomb, with the dead. The beetle 1shalI-
ed objects are scarabs, made Ifromt'
glass. JASPER; en- onyx. others from clay
baked and glazed.
:'What the institute is able to eXhib'
it of EGXntlan- handicEafts shows the
sd nae &hWac terisE s..-dispJayal .9E