Category Archives: HOW?
304.HOW DID COOKING BEGIN?
Today cooking is quite an art. There are great chefs, famous restaurants, thousands and thousands of cookbooks, and millions of people who pride themselves on being able to cook well.
Yet there was a time when man didn’t even cook his food. The early cave man ate his food raw. Even after fire was discovered, the only kind of cooking that took place was to throw the carcass of an animal on the burning embers.
292.HOW OLD IS THE GAME OF BOWLING?
It seems that the idea of rolling a round object in order to knock over a group of standing objects, occurred to man as one of the first ways to play a game. In the, grave of an Egyptian child, more than 7,000 years old, implements have been found which were used in playing a game very similar to modern tenpins!
There is even evidence that during the Stone Age there was some sort of bowling game in which large pebbles and rocks were rolled at pointed stones which served as pins.
291.HOW OLD IS THE GAME OF BILLIARDS?
Billiards, or pool, seems to be a game that leads a kind of double life. For many years in the big cities a pool hall was a place where decent people would never be found. Yet billiards has been a popular game with the aristocracy of the world. Some of the finest homes and clubs have billiard tables in them.
The game is so old that no one can say when it began. There are some authorities who claim it was played in ancient Egypt. The Greeks knew the game as long ago as 400 B.C. In the second century after Christ, a king of Ireland, Catkire More, left behind him “fifty-five billiard balls of brass, with the pools and cues of the same material.” And St. Augustine mentions billiards in his “Confessions,” written in the fifth century.
