The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 24, 1920, Page 17

THE SEATTLE STAR And were his finger nalls always"es dirty? Why, Mother would think— (Continued Tomorrow) China is said to be the ng_country tn the school. And I was afraid Mother how really fine and splendid and wouldn't like that. noble he was, But that evening: All the evening I was watching | Why couldn't he stop talking about and listening with her eyes and her|the prizes he'd won, and the big oars everything he did, everything | racing car he'd just ordered for next he said. I so wanted Mother to like|surmer? There was nothing fine him! 1 #0 wanted Mother to see|and splendid and noble about that. | hair-supp’ “Let me attend to this, mveral times, and I knew just what it meant; so I wasn't surprised to seo Mather shrug his shoulders and turn away as Mother said to me: “Very well, dear. I'll think it over : MENTAL INFERIOR Science Puts Folk of Dim Yesteryears on Highest Plane, Says Savant BY DR. A. L. KROEBER Professor of Anthropology, Univer-) sity of California. BERKELEY, Cal., Sept. 24.—That the cave man of the glacial epoch was our equal in brain and gnind de-| Yelopment is the growing conviction | Of scientists, Barring the million year odd miss: fing link, the ,Pithecanthropus, or Java half-man, the earliest human} type of which geology yields reason ably full knowledge, is the Nean @ertal man, inhabiting western Burope from 100,000 to 50,000 years “aK0. ICE AGE RACE HAD MASSIVE HEADS ‘The Neandertal race was about the pize of the modern Japanese, stocky and powerfully built. ‘The most significant trait of this fee age race is the massive head. The/ contents of the skull average 1,550) euble centimeters, fully up to mark of average white Europeans And Americans, and greater than the Drain capacity of the negro and most eolored races. ‘ In mind development this cave ‘Man probably fell short of our facul ties. His forehead still receded, con ‘Bequeftly the frontal brain, contain the centers most distinctively Concerned with associations and in tetlizence, were still somewhat unde- veloped. + Ages later, but still some 15,000 to 95,000 years ago, the Cro-Magnon 4 displayed the Neandertal species Yo western Europe. The Cro Mas were tall, lithe and swift, of a height equal to that of any people, and with a skull ca- ty and brain weight greater than own. |” Five of their male skulls from France have an average of over 1,700 centimeters, or 10 per cent more than our own. Moreover, this skull was domed, for) ‘d high, and consequently ‘the development of the several brain parts equal to our own. BRAIN SURPASSES THAT OF MODERN MAN ‘With a brain surpassing that of Modern man, it would be difficult to Maintain that the mind of the Cro Ma Py EleanorHPorter COPYRIGHT 1 (Continued From Yesterday) This was the condition of things | when I entered school that fall, and | perhaps for a week thereafter, Then one day, very suddenty, and without apparent reason, he awoke to the fact of my existence, Candy, flow: | ers, book» one of these he brought to me every morning. All during the school day he was my devoted gallant, dancing attendance every possible minute outside of ses sion hours, and walking home with | me in the afternoon, proudly carry- ing my books Did I say “home with me"? That ts not strictly true—he always stopped just one block short of “home” one short block short of my gate, He evidently had not forgotten Aunt Jane, and did not intend to! take any foolish risks! So he said | good-bye to me always at a safe distance. That this favored of deception or was in any way objec tionable, did not seem to have oc- curred to me, Even if it had, I doubt very much if my course would | have been altered, for I was bewitch- ed and fascinated and thrilled with the excitement of it all, I was stx-| teen, remember, and this wonderful Adonis gnd woman-hater had chosen me, me!— and left all the other girls desolate and sighing, looking after us with longing eyes. Of course, I was thrilled! This went on for perhaps a week. Then he asked me to attend a school sleigh-ride and supper with him. TP was wild with delight. At the same time I was wild with appre- hension, I awoke suddenly to the fact of the existence of Father and | Mother, and that their permission | must be gained) And I had my| doubte—I had very grave doubts Yet it seemed to me at that moment that I just had to go on that sleigh- ride. That it was the only thing in the whole wide world worth while. T can-remember now, as if it were yesterday, the way I debated in my mgind “as to whether I should ask Father, Mother, or both together; and if I should let it be seen how greatly I desired to go, and how much it meant to me; or !f I should just mention ft as in passing, and take thelr permission practically for | pressed; but not at all In the way I } being granted. 1. chose the latter course, and 1 took a time when they were both together. At the breakfast table 1/ the next Friday afternoon and even- ing, and that Paul Mayhew had ask ed me to go with him, I said 1 hoped it would be @ pleasant night, that I should wear my sweater er my coat, anyway, and I'd wear wings, too, if they thought it nocessary, (Sweater and leggings! Two of Mother's hobbies Artful child!) But if I thought that a sweater and a pair of leggings could muffle their ears as to what had gone be- fore, I soon found my mistake. “A sleigh-ride, supper, and not come home until evening?" cried Mother, “And with whom, did you ‘aul Mayhew,” I answered. 1 er something of the great honor that had been bestowed upon thetr daughter, Father was tmpreased—plainty tm- had hoped he would be. He gave! me a swift, sharp glance; then look- ed straight at Mother, “Humph! Paul Mayhew! Yea, 1) know him,” he said grimly. “And| I'm dreading the time when he comes into college next year.” | “You mean—" Mother hesltated }and stopped. | ‘I mean I don’t like the company he keeps—already,” nodded Father. “Then you don't think that Mary! Marte Mother hesitated again, and glanced at me. “Certainly not,” cidedly. I knew then, of course, that he meant I couldn't go on the sleigh-| ride, even tho he hadn't sald the} words right out. I forgot all about | casual and indifferent and) matter-of-course then. 1 thought | said Father de- |only of showing them how absolutely Recessary it was for them to let me go on that sleigh-ride, unless. they wanted my life forevermore hope-| lensly blighted. | 1 explained carefully how he was the handsomest, most popular boy in| school, and how all the girls were! just crazy to be asked to go any- where with him (and I argued what if Father bad men him with boys he | did not like—then that was all the more reason why nice girls Nke me, | when he asked them, should go with | him, so as to keep him away from the bad boys! And I told them. Magnon race was inferior in any ¢* | mentioned casually that the school |that this was the first and last, and But here is a contradiction. These people lived in caves, dressed in furs, hunted the reindeer and the mam moth, had weapons and tools only of stone, and their religion and society ‘must have been of the crudest. Is -pnot this backwardness an indication of their own inferiority? ‘The answer of anthopology is that Wt is not. Our civilization is vastly more complex only because it is the ‘accumulation of ager, and to this ac cumulation the CroMagnon people ‘contributed. In fact, they laid its tion. _ It is individuals that do things the was to have a sleigh-ride and supper first time, who prove* themselves]: of high powered original ie and imagination, to whom we accord the supremest mental. Hy. When such men lived in a re period, while civilization was fn ite infancy, their great tri way of seeming un | ‘The man that first put a handle on : ax head achieved something as high a power of concen of mind as the invention of phonograph. If anything, it ts more remarkable. ‘The sewing machine is a far more instrument than the needi Met 70 years ago it was an easier | leaser thing to invent the sewing ine than it was for the ice age ‘woman to convert the bone awl, with only sieigh-ride of the school that | that Mot ry Marie that sald, dear,” I'd seen that glance before, ii year; and I said I'd be heart-broken, Just heartbroken, if they did not let me go. And I reminded them again that he was the very handsomest, most popular boy in school; and that there wasn't a girl I knew who wouldn't be erazy to be in my shoon Then I stopped, all out of breath, and I can imagine just how pleading and palpitating 1 looked. 1 thought Father was going to re- fuse right away, but I saw the glance er threw him—the glance The ‘| her litle girl. and let you know tonight.” But I was surprised that night to have Mother say I could go, for I'd about given up hope, after all that talk at the breakfast table. And she said something else that surprined me, too, She sald she'd like to know | Mayhew herself; that she al- | © wanted to know the friends of And she told me to ask him to call the next evening and | Play checkers or chess with me. Happy? 1 could scarcely contain mynelf for Joy. And when the next evening came bringing Paul, and Mother, all prettily dressed as if he were really truly company, came in to the room and talked so beautifully to him, I was even more entranced. To be sure, it did bother me a little | that Paul laughed so much, and so loudly, and that he couldn't seem to find anything to talk about only himself, and what he was doing, and what he was going to do. 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