The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-14
Walter Willcllell
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 Three hundred years ago in ven- ice, the girls heels were SO high that the girls couldn't stand unless they hired men to hold them up. The first gigolos
 In Shakespeares day, blondes be- came so popular that no fair-haired daughter of the poor dared show herself in the streets. She would be showed into an alley and her hair cut off to supply the hysterical de- mands of the wig-makers.
 There were beauty parlors in Egypt nearly 4000 years ago The girls faces were lifted by stuff ing the inside of the cheeks with padding to take up the slack, or by covering the face with a plastic um and an overpainting to hide the wrinkles.
 On the stones of Memphis in Egypt, pictures are engraved, which can still be seen, of a major opera ton that took place more than A. 200 years ago.
 In the year AIS B. O., the first in- flation on record occurred in Greece As soon as the debased or cheap money came in, the good, sound money fled That's why we have such splendid coin collec- tons from ancient Greece :. People putt heir money in vases and hid them in the walls of the house.
 Rome had apartment houses 2,000 years ago, ten and twelve stories high, and built square around a central court.
 Kidnapping? Julius Caesar was snatched at the age of twenty five and held for a $40,000 ransom.
 The Barbershop Quartet? Sing ing Sweet Adeline" in the bathroom is hoary vice Say the old Roman novelist, Petronius, or one prize drunk: Presently, feeling tired he sat down, and being tempted by the resonance of the bathroom, be- gan murdering some of Menecrates' songs."
 Sports? The Roman armies al- ways took their footballs along with them and played a game not unlike ours today Some of the foot balls were stuffed with padding, but others were made of pigskin and the bladders inside were inflated.
 Tennis is no blue-eyed baby either It used to be played on horse- back and had to wait until the twelfth century for the gut-string racket and the modern tennis net.
 Queen Shud-ad, of Babylonia, played backgammon five thousand years ago Her board is now in the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
 The Greeks of the time of the poet Homer knew checkers.
 Shooting craps with dice is about the oldest game of all Our primitive ancestors "faded" their opponents with human knuckle bones The ancient Greek cubes were marked and shaped square like our own and were thrown from Q leather beaker.
 The Circus Maximums in Rome could seat 320,000 persons and could be emptied in ten minutes |. The Roman Colosseum had 76 num- bered portals and 80,000 numbered seats and could be flooded ana turned into a swimming pool.
 Dog races? They were rat races. in Roman days, and a sausage was dragged in front of them instead of our mechanical rabbit.
 Inventions? A lad named Ctesi- bus, 2l00 years ago. worked up an apparatus of cylinders wherein pis-- tons compressed the air and stretched the string of a bow that was attached to the device. The power developed was terrific. Bows like this would shoot an arrow thousand yards and pierce a bison right through at the end Of the flight A modern Colt re- volver can't do as well.
 Ancient Egyptians framed their pictures with glass over them. asbestos threads were used by the old boys for fire-proof clothing. Felt hats are too old to date. Mosquito nets are mentioned in the Bible. Ladies' shoes, ex- pert enamel finish. sulphur match es, preserved fish for shipping. brewed beer, tarnish-proof gilt. su- per-perfect glue. glazed building brick, tin plating and patching - these are all old, old as the hills themselves.
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