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Show Cartoons of Ancient Egypt. The London Chroniclo is reproducing reproduc-ing In Its columns somo Egyptian war cartoons 3,000 years old. Pharaoh's chariot Is drawn by dogs, his soldiers nro represented by rats. The enemy's army Is composed of cats. A slnglo combat between a rat and a cat, each nrmed with a sword, is graphically depicted. It is explained that this drawing was tho work of a caricaturist caricatur-ist of renown in tho yenr 11C0 B. C. Another cartoon represents a donkey and a Hon playing a war game of draughts. Tho caricaturist was also a writer. Ho describes tho soldier of tho period as tho victim of "bad victuals" vic-tuals" and water. This would Indicate Indi-cate thnt, llko Undo Sam, tho Egyptians Egyp-tians had their "ombnlmcd beef" problem. Many of tho Ideas ex-.prossod ex-.prossod by tho anclont cartoonists In tholr productions nro found In tho drawings of modern caricaturists. Thcro is no thing now under tho sun. Apparently tho cartoonists and tho Joke-makers of tho twentieth contury are revamping somo mighty old material. |