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Show THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM MU-SEUM OF ART The Metropolitan Museum of Art, primarily a "show place," occupies high rank among our great educational educa-tional institutions. The largest and most important museum of art in the' United States the Imposing structure which houses the priceless treasures-occupies treasures-occupies a plot carved from the sacred precincts of Central park, New York. The astonishing exhibits here displayed dis-played are a revelation and an education. educa-tion. One could spend a month here and not have time to absorb the full significance of nil he saw. A list of these exhibits would fill this entire paper. To give you an Impression Im-pression of the extent, variety and un-usualness, un-usualness, I mention the following: A teapot made by John Coney who engraved the plates for the first paper money used In America and died more than two centuries ago ; a room papered pa-pered with wall paper which hung in an ancient home for more than 200 years ; a collection of musical Instruments, Instru-ments, arranged by country and according ac-cording to date; one of the richest collections col-lections of English glass In existence; displays of ornamental pottery from distant lands ; exhibits of oil paintings and sculpturing extraordinary, basketry, bas-ketry, laces, crystal, jade everything one can think of and many things which one does not think of. Here are Roman frescoes from a Pompeilan home overthrown by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius In 79 A. D. There, a sarcophagus, found In Cyprus, dating back to about 600 B. C. Outstanding features are caskets and jewelry, the property of a princess only daughter of an Egyptian king who reigned about 1900 B. C, found In 1914 In the mud In the valley of the River Nile near one of the pyramids and supposedly overlooked by vandals van-dals when the tomb of the princess was ransacked many years before: the Tomb of Perneb, an Egyptian officer offi-cer of the period about 4f)00 B. C, removed re-moved Intact from Its resting place In Egypt, borne by camels across the desert sands, shipped across the ocean and set up In the museum, exactly as Its builders left It. This tomb shows both the tremendous size and the dignity of the burial-ground architecture architec-ture of the ancient Egyptians. Its brightly painted walls are silent reminders re-minders of the gayness of color with which those reople associiled the tumb of dftith as compared with the soinberness common In our day. |