Show RELICS OF OLD LONDON discovery of the roman wall or the middle aces cant excavations for tho new post office in st martins le grand says the london times have led to the discovery not only of by faff the most perfect piece of the roman wall laid bare in recent times bus also of a complete outline of the old town ditch which defended london during the middle ages it ia difficult to draw for ourselves now a picture of lenhon as a walled town washed by a broad moat wall and fosse are now in the very heart of the county of london lot only so but the town has covered them in and grown over them from th street level to the footing the old roman wall the level of the old moat is about eight feets and a half the accumulations of cent urles bavo buried the defenses of trie city out of sight and it leeis an owner more anxious than usual to make the most of his property to bring to light the bidden history of the place it is curious that the enormous of city land for commercial purposes and the burrowing into the bowels df the earth thereby occasioned should lead to the bisin torment of relics of london of the roman period and of the middle ages f A bath for n i the bath of roses so often mentioned by writers on the luxurious age of rome life is a comparatively cheap luxury to day the warm water in quantity and amounting to tha usual requirement 1 of the bath is first softened by rne into the tub finely sifted oat meat 0 o which is also added hall a pint of glycerine lastly put into it two drops of attar of roses this bath softens alo B aln and blends into each line ot the body R |