, 1923-02-13
Girlish Beauty Same in
All Ages

Sometimes antiquity pays curious
tricks on us. Just when were shak.
ing our heads over its oldness and
working ourselves uD into a bemuseC
state Of mind over the wonder Of its
rcmoteness, it's liable to hit us in
the face suddenly with an irresistible
impression Of newnes and ~todayness
Little Queen Ankh-N .Pa-Aten
with the Mona Lisa smile" as the
archaeOlOgists say who are grubbing
in the Valley Of the Tombs of the
Kings of Egypt-dainty piece of roy,
atty with the curled trans-MeCiterran
can lips and the Anna Hello eyes. Did
mt we meet you on the street this
morning?
Surely 1t was Your Majesty's very
self, as graceful and voluptuous with
just the right touch of arrogance. as
when King Tutankhamen died and
left you n widow of seventeen sum.
mers. You're living in the west
now. n'est-ce pas? Tapping the keys
of n typewriter in n promoters office
downtown? Mar your expression n
trifle by chewing gum? Just as fond
of cosmetics as ever? Hope you're en-
joying the west as much as you
liz Thebes, Queen.
In an avenue of the busts of Ro-
man Emperors in the British Mu.
scum thoughtful visitors arc fascin-
ated by the mcdernness OF the faces.
They actually look like n fellows
fathers and brothers n uncles. Cal,
igula sold you a cigar this morning.
You saw Marcus Aurelius policing a
Center street crossing. You lunched
with Nero yesterday and o heard
Augustus make a speech.
In n dim way you begin to suspect
that the brotherhood of man is mere
than a pretty phrase and ever that
the unity of humanity is something
that may be experienced. For the
antique is transformed when the ele-
ment of time drops away from It like
n curtain and we behold It no longer
as something mysterious and separ-
ated from our lives but as something
familiar and homely from around the
corner.
Lovely young ADMINISTRATOR,
beloved Of a Pharaoh-she's just n lit
tie sister II you think of her in the
right way. They tell Us. the fellow
ers of PythaEoras, who took the mys-
terfes of Egypt to the Greeks. that
we live many lives in n succession of
bodies, and according to that, It
wouldn't be so much put of the way
for a Pharaoh's queen to be living
in North Casper and tipping In n pro.
moter's office down town. And that
might supply many a piquant answer
90 tha 1nnf NI1Innfa frnnhlP1 n1IPE-
Jennings:
Tell me now in what hidden way is
Lady Flora the lovely Roman?
Where's Hiaparchla, and whcEe Is
That's
Neither of them the fairer woman?
Where is Echo, heheld OF no man,,
Only heard on river and mere
She whose beauty was more than hu-
But where are tho SHOWS of yester-
Year,
Lady Flora may be chanting
Number, pIease,'' and juggling pegs
In n switchboard; Hlpparchla may
have a job at n drug store soda coun-
ter and That's may be a perfect SO in
tho SWEETEST cloak department in the
retail district.
According to the Pythagoreans. we
reap from one llfe to another the con-
sequences of our acts in previous
lives, always progressing more or
loss painfully. even when we seem
to be retrogressIng, Onward a per.
feet balancing OF wisdom. power and
love, which spells perfection. And
80 II slender Queen Ankh'Nes.Pa-
Aten was too naughty for the health
OF her soul or II she failed in kindness
toward her share OF the so 900 saves
of Thebes. she might be expected in
this life to get n wholesome taste
Of oppression from tryants Of the
janitor and floor walker type.
Tho rossips throngIng tho Valley
OF the Tombs OF the Kings presume
that the girl queens bust was placed
in tho tomb of her husband to de.
light his soul on its journey. Their