MODERN SKTRTS IN ANCIENT EGYPT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1891, 28 October 1913, Page 2

MODERN SKTRTS IN ANCIENT EGYPT.

Some modern fashions are thousands of years old. That was ono of the curious facts_ brought to light by a scientist at tho recent meeting of tho British Association at Birmingham. Mr. G. A. Wainwright, in reconstructing from tho Egyptian monuments the history of tho people at Keftiu and the Isles, mentioned a kilt which ho likened to the ultra-modern slashed skirt. Professor J. L. Myers, an eminent authority upon tho archaeology of Cyprus, 'said that in the seventh century b.o. the ladies wore pannior skirts. T An Auckland "Star" correspondents writing from London on. September 20, says: —"Never, lias a Now Zealand®, probably, been singled out for greater eminence than Madame Ourie, woll called by Sir' Oliver Lodge, last week, "the greatest woman scientist of all time, predicts for Dr. Ernest Rutherford,' of Now Zealand, who is now Professor of Physics at Liverpool University. "Y<is, I discovered radium," she said to the one interviewer who has been fortunate enough to victimise hor in England, "but wait and see what tho next, ten years have in sterol I would advise England to watch Dr. Rutherford. His work in radio-activity has surprised mo greatly. Great developments are likely to transpiro shortly, to which tho discovery of radium was only a preliminary." Mhe. Curie considers Professor Rutherford (who ; though now only just over forty, it will be remembered, is a M.A. and D.Sc., of tlio Now Zealand University, and LL.D. of tho Universities of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, a D.Sc. of Dublin, Ph.D. of Gicssen, etc., etc., and who was awarded tho Nobel Priz-8 for Chemistry in 1908), tho ono man living who promises to. confer some inestimable boon on mnjkind as a result of tho discovery of radium."