Identifier: sixoneabroad00thom (find matches)
Title: Six and one abroad
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Thomas, Sidney J., 1868-
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Publisher: (Austin, Tex.) Printed by E.L. Steck
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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-brac, dishes and what-not of house-keeping had joined the wholesale hegira of all the movable contents of homes and shops to the museums, and every woman and ever scion of woman, whether woman or not, finds in these treasure houses the chief gratification of curiosity in Pompeii and Naples. Not anywhere in all the world is there such an edifying and interesting collection of the handwork of ancient peoples, such a clue to their manners and customs as in these museums. There is no reason why we should, but somehow we had supposed these forefathers of ours lived differently from us and in a very inferior state. But a ramble through the museums of Pompeiian antiquities will have the effect of reducing this exalted notion of ourselves. Name any vessels of common household use and the chances are that it can be duplicated or excelled by an article used for a similar purpose in Pompeii nineteen hundred years ago. There are divans, glass pitchers, tumblers, candelabra, hand-painted 174 Six and One Ahroid
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Ponipeii 175 wood and china, dolls, kitchen cabinets, steelyards, scales,lamps, door latches, locks, nails, bolts, colors and pigments,bottles, pins, bells, bridles, buckets, chains, hinges, pocketknives, forks, spoons, plates, saucers, pans, table knives, pens,ink and paper, trowels, surgeons, butchers and artists tools,combs, jewelry, blacksmiths, carpenters and sculptors instruments, books, needles, baskets, funnels, etc. The similarity of these articles to our own is positively shocking to our twentieth century vanity. Indeed, I had supposed we were the discoverers of the art of plumbing, and w^as surprised to see in the wreck of this old town gas pipe of different sizes,with unions, T s and hose bibs over which ours were apparently no improvement. There are ladies toilet articles galore, most of them resembling miladys of today, there are rings, bracelets and necklaces which fair ones wore then that would arouse envy in the swellest circles now, there are iron safes which ancient avar

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