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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1929-05-16, Page 7Hope for Discovery Of Ancient$hrine 10.0.011.10,611, Lake Nemi May Yield Relics Older Than Galleys of Caligula TEMPLE OF INDIA Area Has Already Given Up Bushels of Votive Offerings Rome—Tor more than 500 years the secrets of Lake Nene have stirred the curiosity of artists, historians, archae- ologfsts, treasure hunters, tourists a !bound, Arehaeolog ca ev e are that the ,slopes of the Wile were 1teld in by retaining , walls on the north and west ot; Diana's shrine, whose Principal platform was a seriee of triangular buttresses 200 yards .or more in length and 39 feet high, with Doric columns, Tile whole structure covered 10 acres, The edge of this templeis now 100 yards from the edge of the lake, but it is supposed that the waters of the lake formerly came up to it, The area has yielded bushels of votive of- terings, lamps, statuettes and tiles, Burmese Color A Burmese crowd at 'a festival is a delightful sight, and as different from, and pilgrims,. Since Signor Mils- for, example ,an English crowd on CuP- solini gave Permission to a group of tie day as light from darkness... , To private firms to drain it, interest has see the happy Burman sporting his spread to the general public of Eur- holiday "Pasch" of ruby silk, Itisthead one and the United States. Some are kerchief of orange (which somehow anxious to see what those two ships wliiclt are known to have been on the lake 1,000 years ago were really like; for vague memories of poetic deserip- never seems to clash) and his bright- ly colored paper umbrella, is to wish for a return of the good old .times when we men, as well as women, were tions of Cleopatra's barges appeal to not afraid to go abroad in all the their imagination. Archaeologists go further.; they also hope to find important remains of bravery of color.... During any first day or so in Ran- goon1- was thoroughly absorbed in sumptuous- Roman villas embedded in I everything I saw—the movement, life the mutt of the placid lake, and of the and color, the variety of races, the Temple where Diana Nensorensis was .ilueor tumble down shops over flowing worshipped and propitiated when on' to the littered.;, pavement, the. Rome was young. Centuries before coolies tugging at freight -carts, the Caligula's galleys floated on "Diana's half -naked, laughing children, the Mirror," bullocks, the lop-eared goats, the ole- May Hold Treasurers phants (for I saw elephants on my Though leaden pipes with Emperor first day), all the riotous 'and kalet- Siligula's name on them, and tiles doscopic confusion of the East epito- with that of Tiberius; have been found I raised in the sunlit streets and bye - on or near the hulks during former ways of the Burmese capital... . attempts to raise .them, experts are . The whole kit of the high-class not agreed as to whether the ves- Burmese lady is delightful, and it is FAN really belonged tothe emperor simplicity itself; just a close -fitting or were merely floating pavilions be -bodice of white with a short jacket longing to the Temple of Diana. Such of fine white linen over. it ,and a remains of marble and mosaic decora "lungyi," or skirt, of some bright -col - tions as are now in Roman museums ored silk reaching to the feet and. are carried out in; red, green and fastened merely by being tucked in white, the symbolic colors of the god- at the waist, just as one tucks in a less, fled meant the infernal fires, bath towel. Embroidered sandals on white the pallor of the moon goddess, the bare feet complete the costume, Luna; green stood for the wooded though a fine scarf of gauze silk is slopes of Nemi's banks. Oddly en- sometimes added. In this simple at- ough, they are Italy's flag colors to- tire the Burmese lady can challenge day. • - comparison with any European wo- Tradition and old legends have en- man, however well turned out, and hauced the idea of great wealth on she has the additional advantagof f board both ships. Unfortunately no- body has told a posterity when or how they were sunk. One legend is that Caligula, with all the authority of a Roman despot, bad them sunk -with his guests on board to crown a perfect day with a remarkable sight. Previous Efforts at Salvage Efforts to salve the ships and secure their real or Imaginary treasures have been made several times since. Cardi- nal Colonna made 'an attempt to get up supposed treasure chest in the fif- teenth century. But;` though be brought sailors from Genoa and made rafts act on airtight barrels, •they failed. to budge the chest, broke the bow's of the smaller ship and gave it _, up in despair. A century passed, color that strikes their fancy. The; come to light. For the camera, when and only the inhabitants of the neigh - colors seldom clash, and I am inclined' operated from the air, reveals much baring towns, Nemi and Genzano, to think that the Burmese must have that is lost to the eye looking at the visited the wrecks, taking whatever a natural instinct for color, though same object from the ground. they could find for themselves and me people put it down to the light. These photographs lay bare the being able to wear any amountthe Middle East and returned with Great's battle. It stands high above jewellery without appearing vulgar or 1 tot overdressed. One can't explain why, a collection of aerial pictures now on the surrounding country, raised on a but it is so. eihibition in London. These had not great mound which, according to Mr. man's costume is practically been taken with any thought of their Crawford, "represents centuries of The archeological value, but were made in dirt." the same as the woman's with the municipal exception of the "gaups -banns," or the routine patrol flights of the air- It is no only head scarf; but he fastens his I men who guard the frontiers of Mese- that aerial photograph otamia Figure Out Whzlt''L"hia Really Means Illness Changes King's Outlook On Royal Role ONE POULTRY FARM PRODUCES 100,000 EGGS EVERY DAY 100,000 eggs, a • bout three-quarters of daily output of Runnymede farms ,Los Angeles, laid out for inspection. The Runnymede farm keeps 800,000 laying hens and 200.000 baby chicks. Aerial Photos Show Old Sites life is to be seen for many miles. British Settlers Then, suddenly, Mr. Crawford says, London Times (Ind.) The State thecitya ears far -spreading and un- mistakable n 1 Australia p� , Governments throughout Aus mistakable in the midst of the bleak tend, at least in times of Labor admin - Aviator, on Routine Flight desert. A German archeologist once made a Monarch Now Understands ' Prince's Dislike for End' less Formality at Court London, --The psychological effects pa.King George of his illness are re• marltable. They are as distinctly evi- dent as the physical consequences. The King's outlook on. life in his posi- tion as a monarch has undergone a decided change. What the change is may be hest expressed by the words which he is said to have uttered to one of his nurses: "You have learned,. BetsY, as I have, that a king Is, after all, just a very ordinary kind of man, but one who has to live in a very extraordin- ary kind of a way that sometimes seems to have so little sense in it,' This 'is more or less the frequent ' theme of the sovereign's conversation with his nurses and doctors, who nu derstand him better than any one else, for they have seen him through a long. illness and through suffering that could be relieved only by opiates. Catches Attitude of the Prince It is not to be wondered at that, after all King George has been. through, the artificialities inseparable from his way of life have become clearer to him than they were before his illness. When he went to the sea wall at Craigweil to see the crowd be- low, which had been allowed by' his direction to gather on the shore, he said to one of his staff: "It is good to see real human beings again. I could wish I were a .e of them." Now the monarch is able to sympa thize with and understand the dislike of the Prince of Wales for ceremony and the endless formality of life at court. What lasting effect, if any, the King's changed outlook on life, or, rather, his own way of life, will have, remains to be seen. Its immediate effect, however, has been to give the servant staffs at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Sandringham the full benefit of an absent court, which hitherto has meant for the royal ser- vants a period of "disciplined idle- ness." Servant Discipline Relaxed. At King George's request the discip• linary rules at all the royal residences have been relaxed and the servants, more especially those at Buckingham Palace, have been having quite a good time of it recently entertaining their friends in the servants' hall at dances, concerts and supper parties. That Queen Mary herself should quite cheerfully agree to the suspen- sion of the ordinary rules which have lish - children drawn from the poorest prevailed at the royal residences in quarters to our great cities, may be the absence of the court, and which converted betimes into healthy young forbade the servants to hold any kind Australians. of entertainment, is evidence that her husband's illness has had its effect al- so on her. Six months ago it would have been unthinkable that Queen Mary could have so willingly agreed to the relaxa- tion of the discipline in the royal household as she has done. It is probably true to say that life to King George and Queen Mary will never again mean to either quite what it meant before the King's illness. Should the King regain complete good health life to bath will signify some- thing more than it has done hitherto, something that will bring the busi- ness of being a king into closer rela- tionship with the ordinary business of living, istrations, to be lukewarm towards map of this place after infinite labor, schemes of immigrations as attempts Over Eastern Desert, Acci- but the photographs, taken in a few to force a pace which will depress the dentaly Photographs Re- standard of life. 'Yet Western Aus- mains minutes, show the plan of the city •• far more detail and at some points tralia, which suffers like the rest of of Hatrathe country from having too high a with more clarity. Pictures taken at of its citizens in one town, London. —Archeological research closer range even show the layouts of proportion has gone to great expense in the last few years in its bold attempt to find a new method of settlement which would enable whole families to be set- tled near together on virgin land. The Group Settlement Scheme has been found in ten years to be too expensive for the resources of the State, but the experience, though costly, is still an asset of great value. If the last ten years have not yielded the results hoped for there is plenty to put to the credit side of the ledger. Access to the lands to the South-West has been opened up under the impetus of a large State scheme, and the wonderful initiative of the Kingsley Fairbridge Farm Schools have shown how Eng - workers have recently found a new individual houses, many of them only method of infinite value in aerial one -room affairs. photography. Some time ago 0. G. S. Another photograph showed Erbil, Crawford, editor of "Antiquity,"'made the oldest inhabited city in the world, a tour of the Royal Air Force stations and the scene of Alexander the times t onl in the East photography ha Middleseddd to "lungyi with a bunch in front instead p The sites of deserted cities caught our knowledge ofim s long'ago. 'Mr. of smoothly at the side as is the wo-, Crawford himself has carried out an man's way. Also on special occa- the attention when viewed from the air survey of some of the southwest- sions he wears, instead of a "lungyi," air and therefore were snapped as ern counties of England which reveal - which is a similar garment, e "pasoh, I landmarks likely to be useful for map - ed a number of prehistoric works un - but very much ampler.I ping Purposes• der the bare grass of the Downlands. Thus, quite aecider to}lly; u great On one occasion a photograph of what appeared from the ground to be au ordinary ploughed field revealed faint but perfectly clear lines which , on investigation proved to be the re- mains of a stone -age settlement. In another part of the country the aerial camera has played a great patr-1 in the excavations of a Roman camp where a number of discoveries have recently been made. The favorite' and predominant color for "ungyis" is rose pink; but neither men or women hesitate to appear in apple . green, peacock blue, vivid orange or flame, purple or any other deal of valuable information regarding ancient cities, which crumbled away 2,000 years and more ago and now lie almost buried in the desert sands, has keeping up the tradition of buried ' wealth. The second attempt was made by engineers from Milan. They examin- so Many of the lungyis are in check pat -.skeletons of the cities, providing In terns, and it is often possible to tell fact pans showing the arrangements by the pattern of his lungyi from what of the streets and the layouts of the district a man hails. Blue is not large buildings 'and public spaces. ed the hull of the smaller ship, salt'-, often met with except further north, Such pictures are of value to atcheol- ed pieces of timber and abandonedhere it is worn egists who wish to excavate, for they the task when a cable broke and bad! folk; ut Kaclte not d other tr bes• show at just which spots their wank Tay - weather set in. The lake was allow -1 folic but these are not true Burmese, may be concentrated most usefully. ed to keep its secrets then until 1827, , and rose -pink remains the distinctive Among Mr. Crawford's collection is wl do Annesto. Fusconi went down, 4 ` t" found some tiles with Tiberfous's sartorial co a sones of pictures Burma, land of hiosttl name on them, many copper nails, Pieces ot mosiac, lead piping, figure- heads and so forth, but no treasure chest. --The most valuable bit of bronze and decoration . went into the Vatican museum, where they remain, and into the courtyard of a house -be- longing 'to Prince Torloudia. In 1895 Princess Julia Craini, who owned the lake, allowed Signor Eliseo Boraghi to try his hand with the baffl- ing ships. Some bronze objects were salved, Temple of Diana The Fascist government seems to have doubts about the results of the present experiment and has not en- conraged the plan for draining the seivste of the lake, llttch will depend.. Upon what is found on and near the smaller hulk. If it yields fine works of art, Mussolini may allow further, operation. Of even greater interest than the discoveries about Caligula's galley for of burma. . . land of sunshine, an Ignorance—the ignorance that is blies land of childish superstition and simple faith; land of the yellow robe; land of silk; . lotus -land where time is not money but.far more precious; where money has little in- trinsic value and misers are not; land of laughing children; land of color, and, above all, land of happiness— the happiness that is born of content. —Patti Edmonds, in "Peacocks and Pagodas." A Contrast in Conduct London Referee (Cons.) : The ques- tion of Prohibition sloes not interest us; it is solely the concern of the Am- erican people. But its legal enforce- ment on the high seas is another mat- ter, involving as `it„does the far more important question of the freedom of the seas. We congratulate the British and Canadian Govet:nntent on their handling of the I'm Alone case; they may be ihose connected with lite have acted with admirable coolness partlye of tired whose remains, and restraint and avoided giving un- , uncovered in 1885, lie on tine necessary offence to the American northwest shore of the lake, innnedi -people; and the Affair of Mr, rash's ately above the galleys. yacht, and the outburst of anger i' curl is about three miles in circum- }�hich resulted in the United States fereatce and the forest -grown walls of vi11 serve to throw tli'e dignified con - the old crater in which it lies slope upward from the edge of the lake ea three, sides. On the north there is a level space like the arena of an amphi- theatre. 'When Caligula_ began his brief and bloody reign 37 years after the crucifixion, this cricuMscr.ibed theatre already had a sophisticated, even decadent, worships - In. its rites a- dramatic homicide had recurred time after time for con- tnrfes—tire ntin•der,, of the- reigning "King of the Wood,' Rex Nemorensis, and the RPCaess'lott of his `murderer, duct of the 'British and Canadian Governments into high relief. he he , of, -Diann NeMorenSis had a, curious as- sot•tntent ot divine duties. She was [leaven?" a goddes of fertility, both 'plant and 2nd b'ly----"Nn win( 'w screens and • animal, of childbirth, of hunters and of sugar bowls with the lids off!" criminals. Among the Many statu- -- o . ettes which are found over this space, Mohair comes from the Angora those of Diana afways shote the vlr. goat, and South Western'.pexas is now f3 +3iTlgll ,.1Cli51Ali7s AT STRENUOUS WATER -POLO I costume, thegreat centre for the growing,of gin ediiin hunting There are two and a half 'Ewe happy, Londoners were on hand oariy for a gate c of water -pole when the Chiswick Bath% ciclliecl in a short tunic and high this species. 1 buskins, with quiver and bow or with million Angora goats in the State, ', upon -air bathing resort, now openocl for the season, 1.;t Fly—"What's your, idea of liatra, a "ghos city some seventy miles from . Approaching Matra by air, no sign of English Girls Are Strong For Athletics Irish Judge (to litigant in witness - box): "Look here, sir, tell me no more unnecessary lies. Such lies as your attorney advises you are neces- sary for the presentation of ygnr fraudulent case I will listen to, but if you tell me another unnecessary lie, I'll put you in the dock." Bug Pitcher: 'How's 'at for gettiu 'em over the plate: Good news for the deprest sugar in- dustry. Th, early strawberry States promise nearly 9,000,000 more quarts than a year ago.—Boston Herald. Bank Rate and Trade London Evening Standard (Ind. Cons.): If the gold standard must be managed, let it be managed solely in the interests of our own trade, So far our central bank policy has followed the initiative of America and has humbly adopted what suits the Fed- eral Reserve authorities. Thus we have now a bank rate of 51a per cent, and our trade has had no cheap money since 1923- It is time for the Bank of England to tell the world that it is no one's servitor and to try the experi- ment of giving our trade money at a cheap rate, no matter what America may say. If, at the same time: steps are taken by both the Bank and the Government to stimulate home indus- try courage will pay. On the St. Lawrence Canals The total traffic, including both tln'ough and way. using Canadiau canals along the St. Lawrence River, .amounted to 8,411,542 tons. The through traffic which traversed the en- tire length of tho canals amounted to 7,321.14S tong, ondox's favorite She --YeiCre a graduate from .Surat swell college, aten't you?" Ile— No ---don't you think a fellow can learn how to drink and neck a girl without going to college?" "1 understand that your wife want ed to go to the Riviera?" "Yea, she VMS most anxious ---but I stood ilrin. and refused." "But I heard that she had already gone." "Yea, but without my permission."