VANITY NOT MODERN.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 467, 22 May 1912, Page 2

VANITY NOT MODERN.

THE JEWELS, PERFUME, AND PAINT OF ANCIENT EGYPT. The mummy of nn Egyptian woman of fashion, who lived 7,000 years ago, has been received at the museum of Kind's College, London, together with an extraordinary collection 01 adornments just like those of t,o-day. The mummy came from Obydoes, from the tombs of kings and queens who reigned thousands of years before the Pharaoh who "knew not Joseph." She was discovered by Professor Naville in his excavations for the Egyption exploration fund.

This unidentified Nile beauty possessed a Grecian profile, far from the ordinary Egyptian type, and may have been a blonde woman of the highest caste from some far-ofl Asiatic or European region—perhaps a Teutonic princess.

Enough has been unearthed in Egypt to prove to scientists that a blonde race or caste, believed to have been of German or Teutonic origin, brewed beer in Egypt many thousand years ago.

One of the strange things about the woman is her amazonian jaw, but even stronger than her jaw, to scientists, is her collection of personal ornaments, which show that woman has undergone in her style and habits scarcely the slightest change, throughout the ages. Assembled on a table in King's College, in the heart of modern London, these ornaments can hardly be. distinguished from those that are bought to-day in a Strand jeweller's.

Here, for instance, mio has jewel charms, mostly earnelians. and amethysts, carved in all sorts of quaint shapes, as hawkis, cranes, sphinxes, hippopotamuses, beetles, lions, fishes, and elephants. The hawk is the sac-

red hawk of Osiris, but. what, modem beauty would notice the difference 7 And the beetles are the scarabs, also sacred to the. ancient, Egyptians. Hut even beetles look alike. The side comb of this Egyptian woman, who flourished at what is called the dawn of history, are of exactly the present-day model. Her painfei vases, in which she kept her bouquets and her perfumes n nd her face paints, would easily pass for modern creations. So also as to her necklaces.

line thing she had not now in asea delicately-carved slate, with pebble. used for grinding her ine paint. Semi of the paint is still there, hardened on the slate, showiog she was as vain and perhaps as handsome as Cleopatra.—New York "World."