StNicholas [serial] . loaswho had prophesied about William when thatgreat conqueror was yet a baby: and in afteryears the old mans prophecy was amply ful-filled, for the house of Taloas was indeedbrought to ruin and to shame by the handof William of Normandy. When about twenty-five years old, Williammarried Matilda of Flanders, who was alwaysa faithful and most loving wife to him. Sheis popularly supposed to have busied her- self in elaborate worsted-work while her lordwas away at the English Conquest. But thatquaint and intensely interesting productionknown as the Bayeux tapestry, by far the
StNicholas [serial] . loaswho had prophesied about William when thatgreat conqueror was yet a baby: and in afteryears the old mans prophecy was amply ful-filled, for the house of Taloas was indeedbrought to ruin and to shame by the handof William of Normandy. When about twenty-five years old, Williammarried Matilda of Flanders, who was alwaysa faithful and most loving wife to him. Sheis popularly supposed to have busied her- self in elaborate worsted-work while her lordwas away at the English Conquest. But thatquaint and intensely interesting productionknown as the Bayeux tapestry, by far the mostauthentic piece of contemporary Norman his-tory which has come down to us, was notstitched by Matilda and her maidens. It dealsexclusively with the later drama of Williamslife, the conquest of England, for which his longand stormy boyhood had prepared him bymaking him, in the words of the Saxon chroni-cler, eke so stark a man and wroth that noman durst do anything against his will. OLD EGYPT AND ITS NEWEST By Jennie Day Haines. N almost every-thing Egypt wasforemost amongthe ancient na-tions of the Thebes, withher one hundredgates, from eachof which it is saidthat she couldsend out, at onetime, two hundredchariots and tenthousand fully*c^. armed warriors, 7® was one of the most noted places of an-cient times, and she was only one of thegreat Egyptian cities. The Pyramids stand to-day, and will stand for ages, as lasting monu-ments of the gigantic labor and wonderful skillof the ancient Egyptians. The Sphinx still faces the desert, as when, ac-cording to the story, she is supposed to haveasked her famous riddle, What is it that walkson four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon,and on three in the evening? Many gener-ations of men (for Man, who creeps, walks, and then uses a staff, is the answer to the riddle)have walked to and fro on the face of the earth,and come and gone; but the Sphinx of the Egyp-tian desert still remains. The Egyptian custom of p
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