Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1930, Page 122

N C— HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY - DN PRENISTORIC TIMES IT WAS VITALLY NECESSARY FOR MAN TO KEEP A SUPPLY OF DRINKING WATER IN HIS CAVE FOR USE IN CASE HE WAS BESIEGED BY WILD> BEASTS OR BY OTHER MEN. ——e -H! FIRST CRUDE PRODUCED BY MAKING WICKER BAS- KETE AND DAUBING THEM INSIDE AND ERE OUT WI'TH WET CLAY. - ht, 1930, by J. Carroll Mansfield) ING. THERE WERE NO PLATES. AT MEAL TIMES THE FAMILY SQUATTED> AROUND AND DIPPED INTO THE STEAMING POT OF __ FOOD WITH THEIR FINGERS. — .T FIRST WOMEN CARRIED WATER IN BAGS, MADE OF ANIMAL SKINS, FROM THE NEAREST STREAM TO THE CAVE, WHERE IT WAS STORED IN HOLLOWS IN THE ROCKS. —ai EN THE JARS WERE BAKED |N THE FIRE UNTIL THEY WERE DRY AND HARD-. THIS WORK, DOUBTLESSLY,WAS DONE BY THE WOMEN ASTHE MEN WERE BUSY MUNTING. -# e pathas !mms MAN LEARNED TO MODEL CLAY VESSELS OF ALL SHAPES AND SIZES WITHOUT USING THE WICKER. FRAME WORK . - ‘IE MORNING AFTER A RAIN A WOMAN HAPPENED TO NOTICE THAT THE SUN-BAKED FOOTPRINTS IN THE CLAY OF THE RIVER BANK. WERE HOLDING WATER. HER DISCOVERY LED TO THE MAKING OF CLAY POTTERY. —Iigg BB snishep probuCTS weRE CLumsy AND UNSHAPELY, BUT SERVED THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THEY WERE INTENDED: &, Anrzou—r = ANSFIEL — @ - THE DAWN OF MISTORIC TIMES CAME THE INVENTION OF THE POTTER'S ' || WHEEL ,WHICH ENABLEDP MAN TO PRO - DUCE PIECES OF POTTERY THAT WERE