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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
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10 EASTONIA dinner. The next morning she got up early, and as she had to help another lady across the street, she told Edith, the eldest daughter, that the grocer boy would bring them a box in a little while and for her to get the contents ready for dinner. When the other children got up Edith told them what her mother had said and it was an anxious lot of children that watched the window until the grocer boy came. To their great surprise they. saw a large fat turkey on top of the box. Edith soon had the turkey in to bake. After this was done she began to unpack the rest of the box. There was everything in it one could wish for. At last she had everything unpacked when she happened to see a slip of paper in the box. On it was written: Mrs. Foster, Dear Madam: VVe are sorry we didn't get this box to you before but we were so busy it was impossible for us to send it sooner. H. N. Bragdon. . The grocer boy had made a mistake and left the wrong box. Edith didn't like to take the turkey out of the oven as it was already partly cooked, but she could think of nothing else to do, so she wrapped it up as it had been in the first place and placed everything back in the box. She then started for the home of Mrs. Foster. That lady met her at the door and Edith gave her the box. Mrs. Foster then wanted to know how she found out it was hers so she showed her the note. Mrs. Foster was greatly surprised and told her she was all honest girl and she would repay her for her honesty. Edith went home., No box came that day for them. At night when her mother came home she told the children she had not received any money from the man who had promised ta pay her and so was unable to buy them any- thing. About ten o'clock the next day the grocer boy came to the house of the Grahains again and left a large basketg in it was fully as much as had been in the other. There was also a large turkey on top and in the bottom a note from
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