The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 1, 1900, Page 5

THE SUNDAY CALL. 2 i , 3 I the Fourth of July | 2 T Proegssiop and Tableau * 7j FANDS CLASPED§ 15 ABCOT COSTUMES AND DRAPING ‘BY MRI. ML ANDEPR ‘ON, . I POSES BY < MABEL LE CLAYK tack: to fight herself if the need i she mus f freedom t 10w around about rward lady, nly not the never downcast, for € on that she needs ot American flag should never trail. st You won't need tistic eye to see might at le ut the w )t once in a it correctly word. Her ¢ there is too m to be alertly los Nor does she simper. eart should tel that; your ¢ Draw there so that its be a little more she “drapes her dozen times th: not touch tk should the f or do her hands take on coquettish fect. Clasp the starry corner at the quirss 1 fancy flourishes. She is the 1 place, she say: cut and sewed be draped in one plec all n made of the flag are them with the perfect you will see how much dignity straightforward and frank and earnest and she will have none of these. Hands on hips is bad, too. That agalm much too restful. Let her hold the easily with the left hand and clasp ight (not, however, 2t Then, indeed, 'she , where a T¢ may hide the Let it droop below the walst, ch the other upper corner at its v tip to the left shoulder. One more looks enir the w quite enough. sshie! The {berty cap, the spear and the shield the have lost by being slashed and should be nart of Columbia’s trous- the through with a gathering thread. sean. Without them she lacks part of her stan r and freedom and As the flag should not be cut for a skirt, significance. As well might 2 strength, as a lady in honor cf the figure representing Columbia must belle go to the opera w whore birthday more small Americans ars wear a robe beneath it. All the laws of to the room w ut a blown to pieces than on apny other occa- grace forbid that a patch of this white must be ready to defend when other t. AT ATSAT AT AT A A SATSASASAO >ment the st ar with the sion the vear through O A TR TR TR TR TR TR T A TR O Rk Tk of the Egyptians as well as about their dogmas, their interpretations, their myth - Does This Solve 4 their morals and their faith in im< t i lity. A copy of the work, it is sald, Re Muistery e e = _ a portions of it were Inscribed on QF !Ehe pyyamyds’ any tombs, with the object of pointing i ™ out to the dead the right road through the other world and of keeping ever in their memory the “right word,” which alone could serve them as a weapon. A recent and a more thorough examina< tion of this book, however, shows that < might have been used for pur- strange collection pHans pogses of initiation. of r- igious an 1 texts,” or than a A Key to this entire mystery has now mere exposition of the views ot Egyptians | been found in that wonderful work, “The in regard to a future life, and that Lep- Book of the Dead,” which Richard Lep- sius erred somewhat in entitling it “The shed German Egyptolo- ook of the Dead.” Instead of belng a ome vears ago In the book of instruction for the dead, it is, wa named Auf Aukh, the are told, an authoritative text book for those who intended to be initiated Inta erles of the Egyptians. pt. Now to be solved. e in re- the great pyram at last the problem This statement Is e: gard to the pyramid of known as the Cheops or C Hitherto it has been suppo: ¢ - t thiS 45 ‘order that the intellectual treasures tmmense structure was designed as the ,¢ pgypt might be preserved in them, and mausoleum of its roya A BB iy Meate mare thatridne kel ample evidence is now forthcoming that SR R ) ned to serve as a the opinion that the secret 1t was primarily d temple in which into the higher mysterics of the might perform the requisite righ Many years ago the question w If the p; ‘ 3 mausoleum, why does it cc THe > stately halls and corrido FLAG SHouLt ‘a secret chamber constructed under NEVER BECUT ground since the upser chambers would original papyrus of which is now pre- it is far more than * AND SEWED INTe A SARMENT..- bave sufficed as a vault for the remains of the great king? On the other hand, if it was ever anything else than a burial place, why is an immense granite sar- cophagus the most conspicuous object in 1t? There s an Arablan tradition that the pyramids werae bullt before the fiood served in Turin. Scholars who examined the higher my it soon after it was discovered said that it was an expositior, more or less fan- tastic, of the life led by Egyptians after death. Thesgod Thoth was belleved to be the authlir, and according to Ebers the book tells us much about tha God idea That the pyramid of Gizeh was used for. the purpose of initlating candidates in this manner is very evident to those wha have studied “The Book of the Dead"” une der the new light that has been thrown, on it