Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1891 — The Economy of the Egyptians. [ARTICLE]

The Economy of the Egyptians.

Harper'* Bazar. A curious illustration of the domestic ©conohiy of the Egpptians has been met with in the unwinding of the bandages of the mummies. Although whole webs of fine cloth have been most frequently used, in other cases the bandages are fragmentary and have seams, darns and patches. Old napkins are used, old skirts, pieces of something that may have been a shirt; and once a piece of cloth was found with ah armhole in it, with seam and gusset and band finely stitched by fingers themselves long since crumbled and their dust bloVn to the four winds.