Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1931, Page 108

B crures IN THE MAP TAMMER T INLAND OR CENTURIES AFTER MAN CAME INTO POSSESSION OF FIRE HE MAY HAVE USED T ONLY TO KEEP HIMSELF WARM AND TO LIGHT HIS CAVE AT NIGHT. FRoM TIME To TIME MAN FOUND SOME NEW USE FOR. FIRE . THESE HELPFUL DISCOVERIES WERE PROBABLY DLE T0 A SERIES OF FORTUNATE ACCIDENTS. How THESE CAME TO OCCUR WE CAN ONLY IMAGINE, BUT NONE CONTRIBUTED MORE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION THAN THE DISCOVERY OF METALS AND THE PROCESS OF SMELTNG . e SELECMNG THE SHARPEST PIECES OF COPPER ,THE MEN MADE THEM INTO ARROWHEADS AND KNIFE BLADES AND FOLIND THEM FAR SUPERIOR. TO THE FLINTS THEY HAD ALWAYS USED. RP BLADES OF BRONZE OR IRON GAVE THEIR POSSESS- ORS A GREAT ADVANTAGE OVER THEIR LESS CIVILIZED ENEMIES WHO STILL. USED BLUNT STONE WEAPONS . ULEA[iorz/q/r/ e %%////é i 7 KUOPH TS T.MICHEL @A/ P i ~ONE DAY SOME MEN WHO HAD BUILT A ROARING FIRE AGAINST A PILE OF ROCKS WERE AMAZED TO SEE LITTLE FIERY STREAMS TRICKLING FROM SOME OF THE REDHOT STONES . . . « LN TIME MEN DISCOVERED OTHER METALS - IRON,TIN ,GOLD AND SILVER, ~AND BEGAN TO DIG MINES WHERE THE DEPOSITS OF ORE WERE- TSNS IT WAS DOUBTLESS BY ANOTHER LUCKY ACCIDENT THAT FIRE GAVE MAN HIS FIRST COOIKING UTENSIL . THE FIRST CRUDE POTS OF SUN-DRIED CLAY, THAT CRUMBLED EASILY ,HAD BEEN USED ONLY FOR CARRYING WATER . TAINED COPPER ORE-, WHEN THE FIRE DIED OUT THE- TINY, GLOWING RIVULETS COOLED AND HARDENED. METAL AND THE WAY TO EXTRACT IT HAD BEEN DI1S- COVERED ACCIDENTALLY . THEY LEARNED TO CAST OR HAMMER METALS INTO DESIRED SHAPES ; TO MAKE TOOLS AND WEAPONS WITH SHARP POINTSOR KEEN CUTTING EDGES. WITH GOOP TOOLS TO WORK WITH , MEN SOON BECAME SKILLED CARPENTERS AND SMITHNS, AN EMPTY WATER BOWL AND IT ROLLED INTO THE FIRE. RECOVERING THE BOWL LATER, THE WOMAN FOUND IT BAKRED AS HARD AS WIBRIEIL & s o s Ao o ok von Sken o Facts on FINLAND LOCATION - NORTHERN ELIROPE- BETWEEN SWEDEN AND RUSSIA. AREA — 149,604 | SQUARE MILES, 3,682,406 CAPITAL — HELSINGFORS, PoPULATION 188,922 GOVERNMENT — REPUBLIC. CHIEF INDUSTRIES ~ LUMBERING, FARMING, CATTLE RAISING, DAIRY PRODUCTS. PoPULATION THE MEN PICKED UP SOME OF THE BITS OF COPPER AND EXAMINED THEM CURIOUSLY. NERE WAS A 'NEW SUBSTANCE, HARDER AND MORE WORKABLE THAN STONE-, THEY LEARNED TO IMPROVE THE METHOD OF SMELTING AND TO MAKE METAL ALLOYS .LONG BEFORE THE BEGIN« NING OF WRITTEN RECORDS BRONZE- WAS PROPUCED BY MIXING COPPER, BRICK ,ANOTHER GIFT OF FIRE, WAS A BUILDING MATERIAL MUCH USED BY ANCIENT PEOPLES LIVING IN LANDS WHERE TIMBER WAS SCARCE, TO BE CONTINUED,