Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 7, 1915, Page 9

When Mastodons | Were Kings . . . ! GARRETT P. SERVISS. l Ameng {he remarkable exhibits to be { reer. in the American Museum of Natural | Histdry in Central park, New York City, rro glgantic skelotons of mastodons and mmoths, w h ich ro in a way the ecators of the ele- ants. It 1s an edu- stand be- towering 3 ¥ r 1 cation to ide the trames of tires of e think ' of yast changes which ve come over the , €narth during the ! lundreds of centu- Mer that have clapsed since they q : lived on our planet. + There is positive evidence that man was slready a dweller on the earth in the Cays of the mammoth and the mastodon, Lut they have gcne into extinction, while Le'not only remains. but has made enor- | rous advances in his physical and men-! tal development and the conditions 'of | Lis lite, In a certain way the mastodon stands | { typleally for prehistoric America, and the mammoth@¥or prehistoric Europe, | Mommoth remains have been found in America, and within the area of the United States, and, similarly, mastodon remains have been found In the old world Hut, broadly speaking, the special home o1 the mastodon, so far as his relics thow, was in this country while that of the mammoth was In Europe and Asia. The relations of the cave men of Flurope with the mammoth have been | clearly revealed by archaeological ex- | plorations, and plctures of the huge beast, drawn by’ the hands of men who met him, and probably had fought with ‘ him, have been found in the prehistoric | . caverns of France. The discovery of the frozen bodies of mammoths In the ®y marshes of Siberia has enabled us to compare these drawings madeé by our an- clent forebenrs with the real forms of ! the creatures that théy were intended to represent, and the llkenesses are found to be astonishingly distinct. Evidently those early men, clad only in skin garments and armed only with spearg and darts, pointed with flint and | ' ! staghorn, were not afrald to encounter | these immense beasts in hand-to-hand « conflict, and were able to slay them. To kill a mammoth, however, they must ‘ have employed other means than the rude weapons just mentipned. Probably they used some kind of a trap, as the natives of Africa did in capturing ele: phants before the white man came with his guns. The detalls of the drawings show that the cave men understood the anatomy of their migantic game. There is very little doubt that early man met the mastodon in America just a8 he met the mammoth in Europe, but the evidence is by no means s0 abundant. The tirst human inhabitants of this con- tinent left but insignificant marks of their presence compared with the innum- erable traces of thelr possible contem- ~ poraries on the other side of the At- lantfc. This arises largely from the dif- ference of local conditions. It so happened that In those parts of Europe, particularly France, where men and mammoths met, extensive, dry cnv-l erns existed forming admirable and se- cure. dwelling places for primitive men, and here they made relatively large set- tlements and dwelt for many successive \ “generations. On our side of the ocean thera were no cemters of population comparable, for instance, with the val- ley of the Vesere in Frande, with its bordering caverns and rock shelters, which furnished & kind of natural metropolis for the éave men. The pre- + historic Americans were, evidently, less | " settled in their habits. But the mastodons assembled jn chosen places !¢ the men did not. They seem to have had a predilection for marshy places, in which, with their huge, un- wieldy bodies, they became helplessly mired. The skeletons of mastodons were first found in anclent swamps west of the Hudeon river in New York. There 1n & place, some twenty miles wouth of St. Louis, Mo, called Kimms- wick, where bones representing several L. hundred mastodons have been discovered; at the foot of a bluff near the junction of two little streams. It seems probable, says Frederic A, Lucas, the dirctor of the American Museum of National His- tory, In his book on “Animals of the Past” that, in the days when these ¢ streams were larger the spring floods L swept down the bodies of animals that Y had perished during the winter, to ground ~ in an éddy beneath the bluff. “Or, as-the " place abounds in springs of sulphur and % jalt water, it may be that this was where ¢ e animals assembled during cold -» weather.” | The cause of the extinction of the mas- todons and mommothg remains to be dis- covered. 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Insist on “Brownatone” at your halir- dresser’s. Made only by the Kenton Co., & E. e St, Covington, Ky. Sold and recommended in Omaha by Best Tailored Type Ideas THE BEE: Reach Here Via England TR Y AN A picturesque hat (shown above) is with black shadow lace brim. The crown {s of black satin and foura trimming in the back. A three-plece costume of taupe Georgette crepe and velvet has a Cossack Jacket with characteristic belt and high collar. Prince George tailor-made, which draws Its inspiration from the masculine habiliments of a past age. By GERMAINE GAUTIER. Although Parls holds the palm for the creation of robes and manteaux, it is via England that many of the best ideas for tallleurs find their way into substantial and practical form. The French themselves recognize the fact ‘that as the Bnglish lead in the world of sport, it is logical that the tall- ored type of garment should be of Eng- lish persuasion, made of Britsh fabrics and cut and put together wth all the expert workmanship and careful regard for detall of finish that characterizes the masculine suit. Not pretty in the feminine sense, to be sure, but exceedingly smart if the cut be correct and the right sort of woman dons the tallor made. A brand new taflor-made model is called the Prince George. It is adapted from the sort of sult worn by the first gentleman of Europe. before he hecame regent for his father George III, of England. It is elegant In its simple lines and, moreover, permits the use of a little walstcoat to accentuate the note of masculinity and at the same time to feminize the garment by permitting the employment of gayly striped or flowered stuffs. The coat is longer than that of the usual suit. It might, indeed, be called a tallored redingote, except that it has a more austere dignity and greater di tinction, Perhaps this {s due In a measure to the fact that it was Beau Brummel who was mainly respunsible for the evo- lution of the old-time garb of knee breeches, silk hose, lace-frilled coats and tussy attire generally, to the beginning of modern dress for men, and the main inspiration for street clothes for women Beau Brummel was more elegant tastes and habits than his royal fshed the title “Beau esteem than at present, ment to sustain the role, To return to the women the world over. broideries, artistically used tor fur, velvet and above all, vivifying splashes of color—French the last degree. n pal, Prince George, but the name of the lat- ter stands for royalty, and that of the Beau for frivolity and foolishness. How- ever, in the day when Brummel flour- was held in more and the man upon whom it was bestowed needs must have brains, tact and graclous deport- modern taflor-made, it may be stated that the French have adopted the ideas originated across the channel and have added thereto certain inimitable touches that have made the Anglo-French composition acceptable to The French be- lieve in the softening influence of em- and discreetly the to (To the left)— And on the right is the shown a marked preference for dull, rich red, dark brown and black. The lines are distinctly close-fitting and the silhouette is reminiscent of the year 1870 and thereabotts. Such a model halls from the French capital, made of Burgundy plush, trimmed with bands of fur. The skirt is prosalc In that it s plain and un- pretentious save for its great width, ‘The coat is cut off squarely In front, at the walstline, the fur border begin- ning on each side thereof, and contin- uing about the hem. The fur reappears in choker form about the neck and fin- ishes the sleeves. It Is a model that might be adopted with equal becoming- ness by the young girl or by the matron on the sunny side of 40, and therefore presumably fair but not fat. One cannot refrain from speaking of the three-plece costume, which has grown so amazingly popular during the last few weeks and which gives promise of & big vogue during the demi-season OMAHA, | tamous film for TUESDAY, By ANITA STEWART. Whose wanderfil work 14 T\~ and ‘“The Mil o sensation of t eld Copyright, 19 Tnternational Nows Bervice. Pra leally every girl I mad, and no matter how g shs bhas sha wants to leave It Pverywhora I go girle back me up into a correr and talk to me about capl al * caseors and fame, ¢ thelr own livea, and the Joys and frosdors, and have ing one's own latehkey, and all that sort of piffis untll I've got what that funny Mr. Ted ca A ear fuil And, rind you, nearly all of these xirls are rich girla, with fine homes, and stacka of good elothes, and automoblles, and they've never done a thing in their liveg but amuse themselves ard have fun Tiey acem to th'nk that for a to go out Into the world and make her awn way {s just some sort of ripping same— scmething that you cen nccomplish bae twee: times when ycu are not having a perfeotly mad time at plcturesque Boe hemian resorts. They think, poos littie doa that all that a woman writer does Is to sit down in an !91o moment and dash off somy- th'ng over which publisters fight and for which shic gets a fabulous sum, They think that the business woman saunters into an office along toward the And when it comes to being an actross they picture that as a grand round of applause and flowers and champagno suppers after the play. Home was never like this, and so it's no wonder that fluffy-headed little gir's want to rush Into a th'ng that looks so #0 hard on the inside. Bolleve me, girls, a career as you think it and a career as it is arc no more alike than a setting on the stage is like the real thing, The woman who achieves any kind of a career, who even makes a live ing for herself, does it through such labor, such weariness, such sacrifice, such a crucifying of every taste and in- clination as you have never even imag- ined !n all your soft Lttle lives It seems to you very wonderful to be a moving-picture star. It does to me, too, for I love my work and am willing to pay the price it exacts, hut it you imag.ne it a bed of roses you have an- other guess. And then some more, How would you like, for instance, on a bitter cold winter day, with icicies hanging to every twig, to go forth clad only in diaphanous garments, through which the wind whistied and the cold bit, and spend eix hours at a stretch riding on a slow-moving donkey? » Yet, that is what I had to do when the “The Goddess” was being made, and when I got back to the hotel T was so nearly frozen that I had to be lifted down and carrled into the house and rubbed with alcohol to restore the circulation, In that same film, clad only in goddess raiment and with sandals on my feet, I had to climb a mountain, and I went sobbing ~ith the pain and the cold until my tears washed off my make-up. Another time in the “Milllon Dollar Bid” film I was on a yacht that was wrecked in the bay by being run down by another boat, and I was thrown out in the -vater. This reel was made about Thanksgiving time and the water was 80 cold when I jumped into it that it s'mply paralyzed me, and I would have been drowned except for the professional model comprises a skirt, blouse and coat. Usually the blouse is of some semi- dlaphanous fabric with = yoke and sleeves, unlined and touched up with metallic embroideries. The skirt may be of velvet, satin or fine cloth, but of whatever material it must match the color and the weave of the coat. The latter must be of sufficient length to reach to the top edge of the satin or cloth of the skirt where it joins the diaphanous material forming a yokt extension of the blouse, In style the coat Is sometimes an adaptation of the Cossock model, or of the peasant smock, or of the fatigue coat of a military officer. For, the war spirit through _the frivolous realm of dress, the designers, both for- elgn and home talent, cannot resist the temptation to use the dashing lines and trimmings of modern warriors—or |such as they were befoge stern realities of war effected Ao change in material and the early spring. The three-plece garb, Let Matters Rest. Miss Fairfax: Several years ago Dear my brotier was obliged to leave the coun- try. Om account of poor health he re- turned about a year ago and lived In » remote section. It used all my means to try to buy his freedom, but, being unable to obtain an unconditional agreement, he was again forced to leave the country. In order to keep him and his family supplied with funds 1 went to live with his family. A short Ume ago my brother died of a tropical fever, and his estate cannot be avallable for his family for some time, His family, has no other channel to look to for support, and I find myself their sole mainstay. Previous to the death of my brother a young lady | esteem very much de- mended an explanation, which 1 was loath to give, and our friendship was broken. A relative has now broached the sub- ject of marriage to my brother's widow to me and, in view of the duty and re- sponsibility I have already assumed, this subject is not undesirable. I occasionally meet the young lady in question and feel awkwar In a sense of justice I kmow an explanation is due her. AW, If you are planning to marry your brother's widow it would be far kinder to | the ®irl for whom you once cared for you not to reopen the situation by offer- ing her any explanation. If you do dis- cuss your family affairs with her you naturally suggest to her mind the idea Thig season certain of the Parls con- that you feel a rather deep interest in Since nothing can come of this in- Advice to the Lovelorn BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX she means so much to you that you now want her to understand the matter you wish to maintain, Evidently You Are Jealous. Dear Miss Fairfax: 1 have known a young man for several years, and during that time we have loved each other dearly. About a year ago we quarreled, and for some reason he was attentive t¢ another girl, A couple of months ago he asked to see me to explain his actions. He did ex- plain some, but with regard to th rl he said he had a reason for acting he id, but he told me to trust him Now 1 feel that the tales I had dis- credited before are true. Kindly adyise me what to do. Shall 1 give him up? still love him. F. F. It appears that you do mot trust the | man you love. There are two courses open to you: either accept him as a llrlmnd who is free to have girl friends |other than yourself and of whom you have no right to be jealous, or have a clear understanding with him and ask him to explain to you just what his at titude in the matter is. Probably your own lmpatience urges you to settle the matter—and if you are ready to accept whatever comes, either love declared or & separation, have a plain talk with him But if you are onl, on & basis of friend- ship, why not walt for time to prove him, and in the meanwhile make out- side friendships and cultivate an inter- DECEMBER 7, middle of the day and i3 taken out to | lunch by her taseinat'ng millionaire om- ployer, who proposes o her over ths coffee. good from the outside, but is, in realfty, | 1015, Anita Stewart’s Talks to Girls No. 2—QCareers Real and Imaginary. despite all | |that has been said against encourdging ther | A simple but charming picture of Anita Stewart. life saver wo always carry along for such emergencies. And, on the other hand, many is the time I have thought that I would cer- tainly dle of heat prostration when through long, hot, muggy days we madoe thrilling moving plctures of snowstorms In August in a studio where the tem- porature was above the Boiling point, and I had to be appropriately dressed in seal- skin. That's just a little bit of what I have _|to &o through as the price of my career, and I have friends who are writing women and business women, and I know that they buy thefr success Just as dearly as I do mine. There is no easy success. It all comes hard as death, 1t girls know how much work, how much sacrifice, how much grit and en- durance it took to achieve any sort of a career, more of them would be satistied to just stay at home and be a comfort to thelr parents, or happy wives to good men. But they've been misled into think- Ing that the business career was nothing but just beer and skittles and no work or worry. No wonder they want it. We moving picture people are always be!nk censored and every film has to be LN s PRACOCK'S “The Gift Store" has for over three-quarters | A of a century been the shop- ping center for those who sought individuality intheir CHRISTMAS GIFTS Jhose who cannot our 224 Shopping State & in person,shop with equal satisfaction by mail-through Guide. gt is sent to amLom on request. \J CDPEACOCK ESTABLISHED | ! CHIC Good Health as a Business Asset By CHARLES F. THWING, LL.D. | Pre . e ) statie. It ydorn dy e, not oy, compet! 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Good health, | embod staying power, seems to {spring from neck and chest. | "One showld have e.oush of health t> 1m- , and yet never burn it; enough of health to carry one over orises. and yet !crigen should never be courted; enough | of health to stand the daily racket, and | yet disturbance and annoyance should | never be invited; enough of health to glvo an bmpreseion of reserve power, and nevor use up the reserve. For evidences of any h one should be on the alert. lack of good Ner- vousneas, undue anxicty and icritabllity are among the signs, must take a vacation,” sald my lend, 'L &3t cross too casily.” It is a happy condit'en that many indostrial and mercantllo concerns are keenly alive to | the physteal s>undness of their asso- | olates. Health is communal, and not sim;l7 an Individual matter, This precious asset may be comserved | and increased ln five ways Firat—By proper food, enough and shnpl Secend—Ey proper sleep, elght hours at least, Third—By proper excrclse, an hour a day at least in the open air, in rapid | walking or riding cr golf ns. Fourth—By one day of rest each week, [ & rest day which shall not mean lassi- tudo and idicness, but downright change of one's thinking, deing and Interests, Fifth—By an avoeation carried on with one’s vocation. Kach avocalon should help the vocation, the vocation the avo- cation. These suggestions make pointed star which gtands the five- over the cradie of sound health. passed on to see If it will hurt the morals of the young. 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