New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 30, 1923, Page 14

| next. “ Pathetle offorts were made by UXUR AWA ENINE | the poor to secure etérnal life to their | “lrml. American archaeologlsts in Luxor have lately found skeletons of [humble peasants placed near the| I | graves of the royal dead, Their rela- . it appears, too poor to pay for| | tives, embalming, placed the bodies near f} ¢ 4k [the graves of the nobles in the hope Taking on Habits of Twentieth the: i Soor” rames would por:| |take of the sacredness of the nobility | Gentmvy Town and thus rise with them in the next | life, Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Kgypt,| The first step in embalming abody | i g in Pharaohonic days was to place it March 30 (By the Assoclated Press).|;, o nowerful saline solution for three ~Luxor, like King Tutenkhamun, has nonths, The intestines were then re- been roused from its repose of 3,000 moved by means of a sharp-edged | years and is taking on something of |stone, the brain, ¥ ’ taken out and body impregnated the habits and characteristics of a| G HOC R ‘_m”:m"”" g 20th century town. Ior ages a con- « Emblaming a Body. | aromatic oils, It was then wrapped | ventional stopping place for Nile ex- |in hundreds of yards of Jinen soaked has|in preservative. cursion stcamers and tourists, it |the mummy as accompanied all classes, including students, college | .4 by the high priests. professors, antiquarians, doctors, un-| Herbert 1. Winlop, director of ex- dertakers, dressmakers and souvenir | cavation at Thebes for the New York | hunters. The newly-found tomb of Metropolitan Museum 0(: showed | Ol the correspondent a 4, year-old | Tutenkhamun is the magnet that B A b Egyptian princess that he unearthed draws them all, Tourists are attract- - f . # | d here out of curiosity, but profe last week in the Valley of the Queens, e ’ ! alors, | Allowing for natural emaciation and | sional men and women, undertakers, 4 3 : embalmers, dressmakers, and milli- shrinkage, the body is amazingly well ners, come in the hope of getting new preserved, The teeth and hair are in- {deas for their business from the t king. mummy chamber of the anclent KIng: | ;.,¢ing " aocording to Mr. Winlop, Undertaker Amazed. |that her ancient highness wore a| To modern undertakers the skill of | necklace, bracelets and anklets \vhlch} the ancient Egyptians in preserving undoubtedly had been stripped from | their dead against the ravages of ages her by tomb-robbers soon after her| §s a source of amazement and mys-|interment. | tery, and many of them have applied| The royal mummy, Mr. Winlop| to Howard Carter, discoverer of Tut-|said, was that of a woman of 22 or enkhamun, for the privilege of ex- who undoubtedly had been a fa- amining the Pharaoh’s body when it|vorite in the court of one of the is divested of its garb of gold and its| Amenuhotep kings. Her bosom and bitumenized bandages. |arms were delicately tatooed with The neck, wrists and ankles| Embalming in ancient times wus a heraldic figures, indicating her noble | oy lip And sleaves Over the lower part of the brand expensive | lineage. much more elaborate and It required abdomen was a long seared process than it is today. three months for its completion, and [which the American expert said prob- | ricd ; |ment and disfigurement. that|ably had been inflicted with a red-hot | front sin troahis should otin NG cost $1,500. Tt was a luxury t and liver were | been in his family for generations. and | Harris, of Norfolk Downs, and pub-| T'he annointing of | Majesty,” in 1614, has been in the by | Harris family since 1630, lately become a center for people Of [ vory%yn g’ fncantations to the gods, | Laskey, of Marblehead, hs a Bible | 292 years old, and Samuel J, Wilde, of | bear a series of slight indentures, in- | DRIED RIGHT UP NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1928 RICH IN OLD BIBLES New Families, Hundred Yecars, Boston, March 30-—RBibles that date back three hundred years are not un« common in New England, where fam- ilies have treasured the volumes for many generations. One of these Bibles was printed in Ingland in 15909 by “the deputies of Christopher Bar- ker, printer to the Queen's Most Ex. cellent Majesty." It is owned by Clar- ence Cheney, of Norwood, and has Another Bible, owned by Fred H. lished in London by “Robert Barker, printer to the King's Most Excellent Mrs. P, B, Boston, has a copy of the Seriptures printed in Cambridge, England, in 1648, ” ITCHING ECZEMA WITH SULPHUR Any breaking out of the skin, even fiery, itching eczema, can be quickly | overcome by applying a little Mentho- | Sulphur says a noted skin epvc'm]!st.j Because of its germ destroying prop- erties, this sulphur stantly brings ease from skin irrita- | tion, soothes and heals the eczema the skin clear and smooth. | It seldom fails to relleve the tor- Sufferers could be afforded only by the rich.|iron by the doctors of that time as a|jar of Rowles Mentho-Sulphur from The ancients believed that mummifi- | counter-irritant to relieve the pain | any good druggist and use it like a | cation in this life was the only sure1t|uc to an organic malady from which | ¢o1d cream. means of their resurrection in ‘the'the princess suffered. 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