The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-01-10

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] ~ WASHINGTON Jan. ID Fonl
Thousand years os the women 81
Crete were wearing Parish an sly les
with Big hats high heeled: shoes and
Il ffg1ht laced ccTsetss the Cretazls had
Il buGIt houses an d methods of santa
4 tlons that far SURPASSED an5thing
known In modern civil lzation until the
last ffty years. and they mad ~ ented
the written word although historians.
tuntH recent discoveries, had con-
ferfed dis distinction upon the
Phoenfcfans, who did not appear in
modern history until thousand years
later. The man who has helped to
cause a revision Of history by mis-
archaeological discoveries Is the Rev.
James Bafkie, Who in a recent com
municatton 10 Gilbert ii. Grosvenor,
director OF the National Geographic
Society OF washington. D. C., mar
rates the wonderful discoveries that
have been made In the Island of Crete
In the Aegean sea. coded TO Greece
by Turkey at the conclusion OF the
recent Balkan war The writer even
goes so far as to declare it possible
that Crete was the actual stage for
events that nave r6ached us in the
shape of the old Greek legends
1T has been In Crete that explora-
ton and discovery have led to the
most striking illustration OF many of
the statements in the legends and
traditions, and have made # pT.actt7
calIy certain that much of what used
to be considered mere romantic fable
represents, with, of course, many em-
Refreshments of fancy, good deal o..
historic fact writes the Rev. Baikte,
He tells OF the discovery OF the site
of the great palace of Minos, at
Knossos, In the Labyrinth OF which |
roamed the blood-thfrsty Minotaur
1.-THE discovery which viii doubtless
prove to be of greater Importance
than any other was that of large
numbers of clay tablets dncised with
in the unknown script OF
the Minoans. One deposit contained
tablets written In hferoglyphic; but
the rest were in linear script, q haghly
form. with regular divisions
between the words and for elegance
scarcely surpassed by any later form
of writing. The old Cretan tradition k
that the Phoenjcians did not invent
the letters OF the alphabet, but only
changed those already existing, IS
amply Justified, for this seems to be K
precisely what they did. Unquestion-
ably 1t was great and important ser
vice which was thus rendered by
them; but, all the same the pesl il
nfnes of European writings must be
tracted to their predecessors, the M4n- l
oans. and the clay tablets of Knossos |
[Phaestos and Hagfa Triada are the
IineaI ancestors of Europe.
The Rev. Mr. Baikie describes the
dress of the women OF those times from
the miniature frescoes found IN the |
palace, as follows
ssFIere were groups of ladies Won
derfuliy bedizened with costumes re-
sentbling more closely the evening
dress of our day than the stately robes
of classic Greece, with their severe
lines In their very low-neckeu
dresses with pu6ed sleeves, excess
lively slender waists and nouncsu
SKIRTS. and their hair elapoFaeely
dressed and curled, they were as faf
- nosaii,Ie removed from our ideas
inf Ariadne and her maids OF nonoI'
and might have stepped out OF a mod
-ern fashion plate If the dress OF tne
-no.,less I1onuIace was simple, that OF the
female was the reverse An elaborate.
and tight fitting bodice, cut excessive
Nv low at the neck, covered, OF sil ssS
ed TO cover, the upper part o. enc
body, which Is so wasp waaseea as y
s:Iqpest universal tfght-lacing. From
the broad belt hung down bell-sha pea
sInFrtss sometimes founced throughout
fheia. entire length, sometimes rlchly
acknowledged. In some cases OF the
strfI.t below a small panier or apron
ID composed Of different coioTeo liza
terials combined In chequer pattern
Instantly resembling tartan one
frasco represents curious ana elap-
CRATE form of dress, consisting appdr-
entity of wide trousers OF blue ma
4ereal dotted with red crosses on
Hght ground ,and most wondertull
fTiiletl and vandyked. Diaphanous
material was sometimes used lot psslL Ls
Of the covering of the upper part o.
tbe body. Embarrassing was very
elaborate, and above the Won sltSl ~
arecffon of curls and ringlets W4llcn
lcrowned their heads, the Mlnos-h 4a lsrsa-
Toe. wore hats of quite modern typS'
ard fairIy comparable In size even
with those of the present day. a sea-
ssorn Mycenae, representing three
"a S15.e. adorned with aecordian plated
s1xfrts. shows that heels OF IaiI
!, S,ei,It were sometimes worn on the
shoes. .,,i+o .-,of,arn in.
sannearance, with wonderful drainage
svstens, (which 1t would be nara 70
11,afch in Europe until a period as l1te
! a. the middle of the nineteenth cen
t,,,.S ~ our era: . the Minoan htchen'
80 1y,os,t "a well equipped for Its spec
E.ieI fnnctions as the kitchen OF the
nrasent. day. and the carpenter tool
tiyit containing saws, chssels LOT stons s
Ia-,d Tar wood, avis, nails, MES anu
levas (Which resemble in shape the
fo.,Issof today so closely that tney loEs
is,tel1 one OF the strongest BnAs pstNS - =.
4 4be lfirsf great Civilization OF EuEops
l,@nri our own are descrtbe1
That the Minoan empire was osSl-
I-whelmed by some horrible catsstIo q rs 3