Show d Th R r JJ lE n 3 AN ti Jt ra I g W i S Sr vr ru IWi W i r I t rJ If Ho IOU U Old Porn Feu e s People Made r r- r j 3 S W Y if 5 ll Every Building a Latest J r i r Extra by Covering It Wit With a r VC rit i ri News 9 A dyer dyer- t 1 rH l 1 x l Jl i is r lin I 1 l t tt j A S r nI I e t f I tr D r x t a 0 and d Py a t an s t tt ta t I r rJ dup ct ii r t I tl tr J jf g J- J J 1 jiMI MI t w tI 1 t r Wi 3 rj h ji 1 t b Aj peals for r Ji I 1 r t Vh Jl it tr WJ rf 1 t tc c r af r ii fH ft tc fi r rIt It T J r rt t k jl f A H tt f 4 W l t r Votes Tt t UH R r roes r 1 i i mo i IP Yak ii J y r J r i t 1 t t f i x r I 1 i I i r y 1 vI 0 Arill E t J r n I r Y W i p t tk k wn t tj 1 a ai j 1 a S r i l t a w I t V A Ar 7 iW ti Fr vr h r a ir li kiY k lf tei lw it fl S k ti r a s SA i ir r n in 1 ab IG Y t I i q i M r JF t se ot t c h mm cu wafa f r rJ tt l t Pl fr y i t i t 1 r K y i 12 rl 1 An election appeal In one o of rom rom- Porn Pom- 1 t t Ii i l i 4 pens pen's newspapers citizens 1 j t tj j i vJ t to vote for Caius Z rev t art t tl Ir t tr r I Ii l on I-on O that wicked and lovely lovely- lovely I l f H- H ll fi i ii i I hl r m e P city which came to such a woeful r d 5 t i 4 i 11 it c end in m the year ear A D 79 hen lien Z r r 3 R Jr F 11 iy hY t I the crater of Vesuvius suddenly belched all r t t f rs frs R forth fortha a deadly flood of burning dust and Q ser er f i r A Ais s it I J lava had nothing qUite the same as our r- r rf r f i rr j I 1 i j VJ CJ modern newspapers ne a r iq W t S I a ht f j But it had as recent excavations In inthe inthe f df the ruins rums are re revealing resealing a very ingenious tr ift 1 1 1 f t 1 tI tIt I t t and satisfactory substitute for morn morn- morning I io our r c- c t N 1 4 af ing ins and Sunday journals our Lome edi- edi edir edi edl editions i r s J-s 4 r 1 and final sporting extras e tras j l J Ii I Is a s In old Pompeii the outer wall all of every h t A store house and building of every Cry sort sortI I if ift t t r f t It If It seised ed as a ne newspaper On these these sur cur curt suri surfaces is t i s if 1 f s I II 1 r If j faces the citizens themselves scrawled the the news s of the day da the advertisements nd a aT T t pj 4 o- o o things they wanted anted e anted to buy or sell and 7 I it l Eti 1 Ii j 1 I any messages they happened to want ant to 1 J- J M rJ P pass pass on to their friends Js s 1 t t J-fot J App Appeals t for the tho PI support of t dam different r-r r J 21 f i 1 t nl i r candidates who ho were run running mg for office p d rl t it V f t were given publicity in this way a and so W f 1 i were many of o the thein gushy gush notes which f 1 g s r e er b r a r o ort f t k il x xiv iv I 4 men intended d ed for the eyes of their lady iT t 1 10 los es lr J Esery erv cry citizen P r- r hi who ho could write i this helped edit y wi I Tt mS I I the city's news- news f vr N I papers from day dayto dayto G t G G to day and the I LD LOC ao l 1 walls miles lining of streets the j GUM CUK l cv Vl gave gale him space EQ t Q enough so that he Q could display his it 7 W par particular t I cular announcement an- an N L- L in m as urge luge type and unA un- un unreal A real estate der as flaming Haming headlines aa as h he be to to to be let pleased from the next Did Idu of Ju July y cut The writing g was shops bop with cut into the Stucco their rooms room inor in inor inor or other material the upper forming the walls tory story with a writing instrument known n as the stylus which I I almost every seems to hale ha carried and known how to use It k hask was as cut deeply enough so BO that it has ed the volcanic flood that covered It t and the hundreds of these wall II all in inscriptions in- in insCriptIOns inscriptions that are being uncovered throw most intel light on the life l that was as lived in m PompeII nineteen cen- cen centurIes centuries cen centuries ago The method of building constructIon made the streets ideal places for scan scan- scanning scanning ning at ones one's leisure the tho announcements that were forth on the wals waIs Asin As Asin 1 in III N mot most of the hou houses es had little balconies little litte covered ered terraces and roofs o the narrow streets so far that the sidewalks were ere completely pi and no one cue ev ever r needed to carry an umbrella when hen henI I walking out to the latest news This sort of con construction made Pompeii rot only a city where neo nev s of every kind spread quickly but also one that was unusually neighborly The houses bouses were brought so close together by the over over- overhanging over hanging balconies that people could con con- converse con converse verse erse with families across the street aswell aswell as Y well eU as with those on either cither side Dr Vittorio Spinazzola foremost of European archeologists archaeologists arch and the man who has finally restored all that re- re remains re remains mains mams of Pompeii has many remarkable things to say say about the city's wall news news- in a reet nt A h Decoration There was no press he lie says in Pompeii but nearly eo every ery inhabitant i carried a stylus and every walland wall and pil- pil pil pillar lar tar was a scribbling pad By going beyond be- be yond vond ond the flaring political notices and de deciphering de- de deciphering deciphering ciphering the general and the tho intimate and innumerable per per- personal personal per personal notes ve we realize that to tho the peo- peo peo people pie of Pompeii publicity was vas paramount and its place was in the street Pompeii was the advertisers para- para t I mw 5 w- w wi w fy i l j S i ue AA Ott CV fR S lisE A restored street in Pompeii Pomp en showing how tho tha projecting upper stories dories of the houses housea made the ET sidewalks even in m rainy weather f fw SS rt places toa to a recd read the news of the day end and adr ad- ad r ab ti that sat covered the walls r v e w 0 N r r ra a w tT sic sick l p k I r h hi i m ti S rr v e r C i a I J d The TIle oven and flour Hour grinding millstones ofa of a baker its pure food products on the wall walls dise The spirit of it was inwrought Into the people from childhood We see a most vulgar survival of this tendency in inthe Inthe inthe the picnicking habits of tourists and others who carve names and dales dates suffering on long suffering trees But nut with the peo people peo- peo people people of Pompeii Pompe 1 the passion for publicity hid hidas as its only outlet v walls ails and pillars of the city and what hat they had they utilised to the full fuU Education was far more popular and enjo enjoyed ed than later ages can possibly con so that mingled with the multitude of advertisements there was a perfect saturnalia of personal scribbling which we ve find included in the evident chirography phy phy of students of Virgil's opening lines Arma cano qui probably probably the only words word of that great poem the tho writers could set down offhand That these II walls aUs attracted the populace populace lace daily both to lead and to write IS made clear by the almost Infinite variety I I- I IA A typical wall it ii h Pompeii Pompe covered tion appeals news items government proclamations for the to read s c-s they passed by in the inscriptions They were ere not al always al- al alI ways I ns n's serious and many man of the messages mes ages were ere obviously designed to servo sel e only the purpose of the moment the publicity media thus serving the facilities of a as well ell as a hoarding Artists and artisans left on o the walls aUs and pillars greetings for friends who should come that way We come across I for example the I Campano which instead of being a solemn memorial memo nal memo memo- rial is simply a message from the engraver wishing all happiness to the lewder jeweler e eeler eler In addition to such expressions ot of sentIment which are n ln there are arc legends on the walls which had to do with more practical matters Tor rot example a poster painter for a theater who did his vork at night and n n n to hold the ladder on which the painter stood had scribbled along the wall lust Just where rere the tt-e rays ras ra's of the lantern would re reveal re- re reseal veal seal the words tene salam which far from having a n symbolic sig significance ml a cance-a cance a poetic Watchman n tell us of the night interpretation was a mat mat- mattero fact ter-of-fact ter-o ter fact instruction to the t e may man below with the lantern to Hold the ladder fast Thus us the actual diurnal life of Pom Porn Pompeii pen as now in a thou thousand and similar ways wars resealed re is far more fascinating than the legendary fallacies s regarding the city that was as swallowed rip op p We now know that constant groups and processions of the people made daily dally and eager pilgrim pilgrim- pilgrimage pilgrimage pilgrimage age to these scribbled walls to read the thene new ne issues and communications and dis discuss dis- dis discuss discuss cuss them and to leave lease as interest or fancy prompted fresh inscriptions of their 0 own n In front of the huge billboard that formed part of the wall of the house of and which Illch was plastered atthe at the moment ofa of a Pompeii's 0 over over- ver- ver is isn n throw no not only with Ith political ap appeals ap- ap appeals a peals deals peals for him hun but s 41 with Ith alluring an announcements nn- nn announcements or of J s curl theatrical ath actions prat at benches painted red had been bee n placed and from flom the these s e convenient r seats people read readily L Lily ily lly read the mani mani- manifestoes maniN manifestoes N and the ad advertisements Doubtless Tre Tre- Tre- Tre M bins bius himself pro pro- pro provided vided sided the benches ro s- s sM M cr d 1 that were fixed filed 1 firmly to tot t o t h e et t ground and who knows but that thata a t political or merchant or the the- they they the theatrical y that ad- ad advertisers advertiser supplied the paint I t I from a fountain in the center of this publicity It will give some idea of the scope and intention of the new excavations to remark that billboard benches and fountain foun foun- fountain fountain tain are arc now to be seen teen restored just as they were sere in that far century in Pom Porn Pompeii Pompeii pen when sought the and was the theatrical favorite One of the Inscriptions found here reads Clementi sancto judici to to Clemens demons saintly ith elec and a ar r r j t a s 's kV r 4 r r F r rr rS 1 14 r S a er vr t w ti 9 d r I c 4 S rl S r rR R Excavating 1 r r a section of x kr fl e Street of oft t as t Abundance which was to Pompeii what judge fudge all possibly possibly written ritten on his Ilia way home homo the day before by some somo successful litigant or some hard haid pressed defendant who ho had escaped condemnation condemnatIOn tion and sentence An artist signing his work lus beautiful and his Ius had painted here a spectacular advel of gladiatorial gladiatorial rial combats and aud had dedicated this en enviable en- en enviable viable piece of publicity to his sweet sweet- sweetheart sweetheart sweetheart heart 0 tu to Nigra Oh sale tale Oh thou Nigra farewell Other love lose greetings were mingled in inthe inthe inthe the adorable medley of manifestoes ad advertising ad- ad advertising signs and that marl mark the house t-ouse walls of the patrician such for lor example as a greeting likely by gay youths after an evenings evening's delight beginning Mannal et Valeria Another more homely sentiment and indubitably kin to the not at all cryptic legends left by lovers in every lane and cooing giove glove throughout the world orld reads Here we e h two have been deer derr and loving friends forever forever Nor was the humorous side of some of this raging itch for publicity ignored one inscription for example addressed to the wall itself wondered why it had hadnot hadnot hadnot not fallen in ruins forced as it was wag to bear the burdens placed there thero by so many hands and it is on record too that one instructed ls I his friend Cornelius to go hang yourself putting It thus publicly in Latin Cor- Cor Cornelio nelio Cor-nelio nelio Clearly the people of Pompeii were light hearted and very velY human but they were diligent in m busi busl business busi- busi business ness too The newspapers of old Pompeii had their illustrations just as those thoe of to- to today to today day do Election appeals were often accompanied by cartoons in which the virtues of one candidate were held up for praise and the alleged vices of an another an- an another another other for scorn The announcements of the gladia gladia- gladiatorial gladiatorial gladiatorial combats that were frequently held in the city's great amphitheater ere almost always accompanied by crude but spirited drawings of some of the arenas arena's most admired heroes The Tha Italian law is that no foreigners fol may dig in Italy and the go bent beat on economy is not able to spend much at a time Thus the Pompei an ex excavations ex- ex excavations excavations having been dropped since 1914 have given but few results lately because there were few men digging there thero But Professor Spinazzola has been working hard with the result that re recently re- re recently recently half a mile of ancient homes has 1 Fifth Avenue is i to been brought to light for tor the tourist and the curious Instead of having haling ha ing the domestic fur furniture fur fur- furniture furniture utensils and decorations taken to the museum the professor has left them lust Just where here he found them In this tI nay ay he has already reconstructed ten Pom Porn Porn- pellan homes Some of these have fres frescoes fres- fres frescoes coes of wonderful onder ul freshness reproducing that most popular story of old days the thead ad of lovely Helen of Troy and the Trojan wars ars that followed White stucco work ork marble incrustations hons and marble statues adorn the other houses The human skeletons give gle gl e a dramatic Impression some evidently of men and women omen killed hilled by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius lUS in their sleep look peaceful others have Ilave all the horrible contortions of their ther long-dead long owners who ho perished In the agony of vainly trying to escape from the lava that enveloped them r I Nearly every house boasts at the en- en entry entry en entry try a small stone altar for sacrifices And here as aa were discovered last year carin car carin in another part of the city election post post- posters posters ers in black back bac and in red laud lauda a the candidates for municipal office Some of these are in Latin others in Greek which proves how mixed was as the city's population One barroom where drinks were sold old was found almost untouched d by the pro pro- professor professor professor fessor it if i holds a quantity of urns and glasses for drinks and a II caldron r keeping the same hot The pro professor has had the gardens and terraces again planted with flowers so this dead city has taken on a II new lease of life Only one large villa has hns as been dug up so tat fat this has a garden and a foun foun- fountain fountain tain tam and cascade and the water runs again after being stopped for centuries One of the bes best t discoveries from a 1 human point of view is s that of a workshop It contains an open stronG strongbox strong strongbox box and in inside ide this were found nearly a thousand gold coins doubled oser oer were found two skeletons the fuller uller and hl his wife who II ho when disaster came rushed to grasp their savings But the pitiless lava overtook them Only their bones remain but their gold goldis goldis coldis is as good as ever it was l This part of Pompeii will not be opened to the public until all the tho things dug up are re properly placed in n the houses and stores And then a II large army of custodians will be wanted for the sou cannot fail to tempt many and man many manya a 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