Easton High School - Eastonia Yearbook (Easton, ME)

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- EASTONIA 5 to at least sea level, so added what I thought was a yeast cake, but which turned out to be the bottom part of a pickle bottle stopper. I then added half a cup of salt thinking perhaps it would be enough. Then I put in some laundry starch thinking it was cream of tarter, and made up my mind after adding a tablespoonful of castor oil for lemon extract that it was ready for the oven. If anyone had seen me working he would have declared that I was trying to perform a chemical experiment. I made up a roaring fire, put the bread in the oven and waited to see what would follow. My little brother gave me a pleasant look, saying he was thankful he had a brother that knew enough to cook. In a few minutes I opened the oven door to look at my bread which I thought must be half done. I was deeply impressed when I saw it. My spirits, however, were good, and I believed it must rise at least two inches before it was thoroughly cooked. At last the time came to remove the bread from the oven. I thought it thinner than it was when'I looked at it before, and when I went to take it from the oven. I could scarcely lift it, but supporting it upon my knees, I managed to get it on a chair. My little brother and the dog rushed for- ward with a lively interest. As I was prying off a corner with an iron poker it gave way and about a third part of the bread flew to the other side of the room and fell with a dull thud in the corner. The dog ran for it and started out the door with the whole piece, uttering the most dead- ly shrieks you ever heard. I shouted after him wishing him good luck. I ventured cautiously to taste a little crumb that had splintered off from the side, and it sur- passed even my wildest dreams. I quickly snatched the piece I had given to my little brother, gathered up the rest and hurled it with all my might out of the door. Iust then I saw my mother coming up the walk. C. S. K. '12

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4 EASTONIA wild water lapping on the crag. Arthur then told him he had not obeyed and sent him backg again and again the knight disobeyed. The third time he returned he told the King that he saw an arm clothed in white sammite rise up out of the water which had seized the sword and then dis- appeared under the water. Arthur then commanded his knight to carry him to the lake. There he was met by a black barge on which there were three angels who received him, and tl1e barge floated oif in the distance until lost from view. King Arthur's followers retained the hope, for many centuries after his death, that he would return again as their leader. FRANK MALCOLM '12 subsu- My First Experience at Cooking My mother once left my little brother and me to keep house while she took a trip to some of her relatives down the State. She left what she thought was a sufficient sup- ply of food to last us until she returned, but, whether her judgment was poor or we did our prettiest to see just how much we'could eat, I cannot say, but one thing I know, whereas I was with grub, I was now without. I must cook or starve and I would have much preferred the latter, but for the sake of my small brother, as well as for the poor dog who was whining pitifully for something to eat, I had to be brave. I searched through the house nearly an hour for a bread receipt but failed to find one. I then decided to rely upon my own judgment. After mixing up a little flour and water in the bread pan, I racked my brains to think what else I had better add to the mixture. All at once I thought of the soda although I did not know what good it would do. Alas! here I made a fatal error. I got, instead of soda, some lime that mother has bought for whitening purposes and left in the kitchen cabinet by mistake. I next thought it best to add something to raise it from its shallow position,

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,X EASTONIA N , , Roman Life and Manners ' Under the Empire, Rome wore a. very diiferent ap- pearafice from' that which she presented in the days of the Republic. We 1 ' 'Most of the strangers who came to Rome were adven- turers who lived by their wits. Rome was a great hunting iield - for' ad-veiiturers and knights of fortune. A large portion ofthis foreign population was slaves, a class which formed' more than half the total population of Rome. The price of slavesfwas cheap. A young male slave could be bought-for about 520, a girl six years old for about 58. Thelconrlition of the slaves was often very deplorable. This Was-thecase with the immense gangs which specula- Qtors employednngiiidustry and manufacture. The outbreak of epidemics at Rome was a constant ,occurrencesfogerious pestilences broke out in 23 and 22 B. C.g,in 65 D. after the great fire, and in 79 A. D., just after theferuption of Vesuvius. On this last occasion, 10,000 deaths sometimes occurred in a day: Moreover, living at Rome was very dear compared with other towns of Italy. The city Was full of poor people in straightened circumstances, trying to keep up appearances. Men who made a great show were often bankrupt. Besides this great drawback of dear prices, the man of modest means found everything adverse to comfort and tranquillity in Rome. During the day the ordinary traiiic made the streets very noisy, and at night there was the rumbling of vehicles, which were not allowed to pass through the streets by day. VValking in the street was dangerous necessity for a man, who could not afford to be carried in a litter. He ran the risk of being struck in the side by planks of timber, of being trodden on by a soldier's hob- nailed shoes, of being crushed to death by a wagon-load of stone. As to the morality of Roman society, Juvenal devotes his longest satire to a description of the depravity of the