SHEEP

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22359, 24 March 1938, Page 3 (Supplement)

SHEEP

Sheep clothe men, women, and children with wool in the cold weather, and provide them with mutton and lamb for food. Grease from the wool supplies tallow for candles, and from the skins of the animals leather is made. In some countries of the world sheep’s milk is a regular food. In the Balkans sheep meet most of the peasants’ needs. The wool is spun and made into blankets; indeed, frequently the sheepskin, wool and all, is made into a warm sheepskin coat. The Russian wears his sheepskin coat when he goes out into the snow, and at night finds in it all the bedclothes he needs; the tallow provides him with light. We,read in the Bible of Abraham taking his flocks and herds with him when he journeyed from Ur

of the Chaldees, to the land of Canaan. Nomads .or wandering shepherds still live in certain parts of Central Asia to-day, leading their sheep to the high pastures in the summer, and down to the plains in the winter.

THE ORACLE AT DELPHI

The most holy place in ancient Greece was the Temple of Appollo at Delphi. Any State in grave ioubt as to some course of action would send a messenger to the site of the Temple of Appollo to consult the Delphic Oracle. The answer would be given by the mouth of a Priestess of the Shrine, and as a rule, it could be interpreted in two or more ways.