Easton High School - Eastonia Yearbook (Easton, ME)

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RAY W. HARRIMAN, A. B.. PRIN

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EASTONIA 9 ninth, but it was often later. The dinner always lasted a long timeg three hours was considered a moderate length. The dinner consisted of several courses. The Romans ate with their ingers and they washed their hands after each course. They wiped their hands on a piece of bread which was afterwards thrown to the dogs. In early times the Romans made use of the bath only for health, or cleanliness. But in later times bathing came to be regarded as a luxury. At first, public baths were only intended for the use of the poor people of low rank, who were unable to have a bathroom at home, but before the end of the Republic, people of all classes resorted to the public baths, and the Emperors themselves used to bathe in public with their fellow citizens. The usual hour for bath- ing was about the eighth, before the chief meal of the day, but idle and luxurious people often bathed several times a day. The bathing did not consist merely of a hot or cold bath, but was along process, somewhat like our Turkish baths, only more elaborate. The number of baths, some built by the state, others by speculators, was enormous. The public games at Rome were not only a striking feature of Roman life, but they possessed under the Empire an important political significance. They were one of the two means which the Emperor used to divert the minds of the people from political life. The other was the cheap distribution of bread. The games consisted of perform- ances in the theatreg races in the circus, and exhibitions of gladiators and beasts in the amphitheatre. This cheap supply of food and the cheap, exciting amusements, which the Emperor provided for the people, made them contented to surrender their political rights. H. L. F. '14 ' wow A Thanksgiving Dinner It was the day before Thanksgiving. Mrs. Graham came home very tired. She had been working harder than usual for she wanted to give her children a Thanksgiving