VANITY 7000-YEARS AGO.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 616, 20 September 1909, Page 3

VANITY 7000-YEARS AGO.

The.Egyptian belle of .5000 d.o. Ms m less extravagant in the matter of~ toilet requisites than the beauty, of to-day. She required, among other things, a long stone palette, with a hollow in tho centre, in which to mix her green eye paintl'This.palette also held a small delicate sea shell, wherein she' mixed . the paint L with the necessary '.grease' for. stifferiihg J her eyelashes-!•' ivory hairpins ■; which '■ rivalled' •: in length the; hatpin of the .present day, and quaint ivory, combs. "All these articles tore shown , at an l exhibition in' London- of • tho trophies recently dug up by the'officers ofi v the Egypt Exploration ■ Fund. There;. was also : a' small red clay: cast of a face, with the green' paint bringing the'eyes into extraordinary pro-' minence.'-.'■'.'■ : '-' " ■,' : '"; '■'■'' ... ". ; ■ : The housewife of seven thousand years ago had" household goods similar to those of the housewife of, to-day.: She'had copper pansand. strainers, stone bladeSi wooden bowls'' arid "copper:>. mirrors,' and to", decorate : her 'home she (acquired, alabaster vases and painted pottery vases. '..■.'■.'.■' ..'.'■■'■.:•.'■• ■"'■","' ■"." .'..'•-!

Heferring to .-..the rashness -.of holding indiscreet conversations in public'under, lioyer of a foreign language, : . an English paper .tells ,va story of two J sisters'who had ueen born" in India and who always spoke together in public in Hindustani.;. They were in n : bus from. Highgato to, Islington. Opposite sat,an elderly, gentleman: with an exceedingly purple face of rococo design.;' The Uv o sisters toro this poor man to pieces in their fayonrite language, and, at lost onei said to ' the other, "Fancy .being married to suck a specimen, of humanity!" In good Hindustani, the :worm turned. "I am already marriod," ho said. "Your tongues. may niin your'chances yet!" They never knew how they got.out of tlie 'bus, but thoy did not got to Islington. '..- ' , '■ .-,.■, -.-' '

. ; "John, dear, do y<m boliove in tbq ability of-fortune-tellers to . forecast events tnitlifully?" "No. Ono- told me onco that I would got married and livo happily." ■ '■••.:'■•• : ' '" ■* : .-■■. ■.■_■■