Show MARRIAGE 2300 YEARS OLD Most of us make the acquaintance of Egypt in the splendidly 1 dramatic story of Joseph and his brethren and so come to look on Pharaoh and his people as gloomy and malign persecu tors fit only to be swallowed up in the Hoe sea waves writes Charles Johnson In Hal pers Weekly Or we read of the graves tad sober monuments of the Nile valley with their perpetual reminders of death and the kingdom of night with tho result that we art hardly prepared to realize the gay and light some side of ancient Egyptian life or to credit the thought that these tomb builders could ever break Into a smile But there was n side of gayety and of charm and Just as wo are finding that so many of our denper and more philosophical thoughts go back to the people of the Delta f > o wo are beginning discover I oftrtll to the originals of all our jokes In tho burled cities of the Nile That ladles were not unduly the this land of tho Pharaohs we may oppressed gather from In marriage contract from a fourth century Demotic inanuscilpt I says the lady Isis take husband thee as m > Thou iimKest mo thy wife and ant giv est me IM 1 i token of dower five tenths If of silver I disci ig3 then as lilY husband hating tboc nnd loving another more than lice I shall give and return to thee two and of silver of which thou a half tenths gavest me as dow er I nnd I my cede unto thee t of all and that I shall everything acquire third with theo one onothlr1 part as long as thou art married unto mo Not even Chicago or Reno can boast franker of a contract than that and thoro Is thing some wonderfully naive In the Idea good lady Isis of the discharging her lord on the ground ihat sho hales him and loves better another Tim sum she returns her now canceled him as part ol doner Is about silver dollar equal to a |