Bisbee daily review., 1914-06-16
FIRST SUFFRAGETTE
 PLOT IS DISCOVERED
 IN ANCIENT HAREMS
Recent Explorations in Egypt Re- veal Political Activities in
 Royal Household.

WASHINGTON. June l5.-What was probably the first suffrage plot in history is described by James Bai kie in a communication to the Nation al Geographic Society, at Washington. D. C., summarizing the more recent explorations and excavations in Egypi which have done much to reveal the history of an ancient world power
 We have a very full record of the process against certain ladies of the harem of King Rameses Ill Of tnc twentieth dynasty, which exibits the harem intrigue in all its familiar fea- tures," writes Mir Baikie. officials of the harem are bribed. messages are sent out to officers of the troops from the secluded ladies, inviting the help of the army to overthrow the king and set up a pretender, and the resources of witchcraft are called in to insure ! the success of the scheme In this case even the discovery of the plot did not put an end to the machinations of those concerned. The judges in the trial were tempered with. and tho result was highly discreditable ex- posture of the corruption of the Egyp- tlan as we'll as that of the harem."
 Continuing his discussion of the DO sition of women in ancient Egypt, Mr Baihe says
 Though there are certain features, such as their loose ideas in the matter of conhanguinity, which shock our modern sense of morality, the ideas and practice of the ancient Egyptians . in respect to the position Of woman are remarkably advanced and rational. comparing very favorably with those of the great nations of classical anti Quity Woman was to the Egyptian not the slave of man or the minister of his pleasures; she was his compau- ion his fellow worker on very equal terms, often his adviser not infre- uuently his ruler.
 There existed in Egyptian mind a sentiment that could almost be called l reverence for womanhood, particular 1 iy in respect of it's great function of motherhoOd--a sentiment which is much akin to our modern Western view than anything else that we meet with among ancient peoples. The mother was respected for her supreme share in the life and upbringing of her children, and for all the self-sacrifice which is essentially involved in true motherhood, and from the very earli. est days the child was carefully indoc- trlnated with the duty of reverencing and loving the mother who bore and nourished him. So strong was this sentiment that on the tombs of the old Kingdom the mother of the de- ceased is as a rule represented togeth- CT with his wife. while the father rarely appears In noble Egyptian families the general. though not invar- fable. custom was that the heir of the house was not the eldest son. but the son of the eldest daughter Under the Middle Kingdom this rule pre- vailed to such an extent that the in- heritance passed from one family to another through heiresses. He who married an heiress gained for his son the inheritance of his father-inlaw.
 Men of the upper classes had
 their harems Pharaoh himself ap pears in an ages to have been the pos sessor of large harem. Under the empire the harem was supervised by am elderly matron, and was admins. tered by high ofneials-'the governor of the royal harem, the scribe of the royal harem. the delegate for the harem. while a number of slaves watched over the ladies and guarded them from the outside world The scale to which such an establishment could attain is illustrated by the case of Amenhotep III. When the King Of lMitanni sent him his daughter Giluk bipa in marriage the young lady wa. accompanied by a train of 317 maidenf who were no doubt added to the royal harem."
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