Show I Dinner Waiting The destruction which overwhelmed Pompeii eighteen hundred years ago has I enabled modern students to study the home life of the Romans of the first century cen-tury under peculiarly advantageous circumstances cir-cumstances The city was buried up and preserved and when the covering is dug away we discover just how the inhabitants inhabi-tants lived A house recently unearthed in the excavations ex-cavations at Pompeii was evidently undergoing un-dergoing repair when the volcanic storm buried it Painters pots and brushes and workmens tools were scattered about Spots of whitewash starred Avail and floor Pots and kettles had been bundled up in a corner all by themselves I Dinner however had not been forgotten forgot-ten A solitary pot stood on the stove and there was a brown dish in waiting before the oven and on the dish a suck ingpig ready to be baked But the oven was already engaged with its full complement of bread so the suck ingpig had to wait And it never entered the oven and the loaves Were never taken out until after a sojourn of seven I teen hundred years The pig and the bread had been there since November 23 A D 79 lf Flor I elli added the loaves to his museum at Pompeii twentyone of them rather preserved hard of course and black but perfectly I |