Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-10

by the dozens, dug up from Egypuan tombs and ranged in rows like so many dolls in a doll store. None of them show wear and tear even after six thousand years of existence. Their blue mineral coloring is as fresh as yesterdays brush work, with the sign ''fresh paint" still on 1t. These an- swerers have never answered except to the sound of the piclkax and shovel of the Psychologist and his gang. Our conclusion must be that the buried Egyptian never did any work. As further proof we have here in the an thropological exhibit of the Egyptian government mummy of the period 800 years before Christ.
 To find out how the human race got into the smoking habit is sufficient re- ward for devoting part of ones day to the Anthropofogy building. This IS one of those solid stone structures in the western part of the worlds fair grounds, built to stand thousand years or 80.
 When we put this and that together and come to conclusion we call it the exercise of common sense. The anthropologist calls it synthetic reason ing. So we have here the synthetic section, where the prehistoric relics of primitive man, gathered from widely separated localities, have been brought together to show the various steps in the development of custom and the implements of that custom.
 Reading the lines of this kindergar- ten lesson we find that stones or pieces of wood were hollowed out to make lit tie vessels in which to carry fire from one place to another 1t was found that the fire needed little draft from the bottom and so smaller hole was continued through the wood or stone. That in itself was an invention worthy of a Franklin, an Edison or Da Vinci, considering the slim foundation for philosophy in those. days, which may have been in the antideluvian period.
 1t was probably the boy of the fam ily-for it Is the boy who learns to snoke-who put his breath to the small hole in the fire carrier to prevent the glow of coal from going out. Perhaps he crowded little dried clover blos-
 
 plant into the hollow place to feed the little fire and blew or drew his breath through 1t again and again--and thus a new habit was forever fastened on the human race.
 Gleefully he went out behind the woodshed, out of mothers sight, to practice his new art. We love to see the restless ocean lap the shore, the rain to fall, the fire to dance and die and leap to life again, we like the spell of curling smoke before the eyes-ah, there's the kernel of the habit-the blind man does not smoke.
 Tn time the straight pipe was given n turn so that it might hold the con- tents the more securely. The quality that fire has of seeming to restore it. self when given new supply of oxy- gen gave to it mystical power in the 1 mind of primitive man. Hence the pipes were carved in various efigies and smoking became a ceremony. The calumet of the American Indian, pipe with tobacco bowl on one side and a tomahawk blade on the other, the handle a pipestem, was the highest development of the pipe among the aborigines. In the council of tribes the stranger had his choice, the pipe of peace or the implement of war
 The shining beveled chisel of the hardware store and the valued tool of the carpenter and cabinet maker was in prehistoric times a sharpened stone. l Here we have the development all l pointed out to us as plain as A, B, c, | In the synthetic section of Anthropol- ogy-first thin edged stone as nature made it, then a clipped flint or 1 ground or rubbed edge of hematite. A wooden handle with a socket in the l end to hold the stone served for small chisel. Civilization added the l bevel. The stone ax, fastened to han | dle with thongs, developed in the same way. The drilling of a hole through the stone head for the handle was distinct step. The continuation, so far as prehistoric relics indicate, was in the substitution of copper for stone.
 Models indicate the various stages of the development of the wheel from q rolling cylinder to the spoked wheel.
 Some Egyptian child must have put | his knees through the cane seat of this chair. The seat is gone, and only the frame is left. His mother no doubt cautioned him time and again that he would certainly get his knees through that cane seat if he didn't stop kneel- ing on it. No doubt she had to scold 1 him sometimes before company, but little Ferryo was forgetful, and the seatless frame of 4,500 years ago is here as the record of this family inci- dent. It's carved legs show that carved legs have been the fashion since long before the dawn of history.
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 The Egyptian idea of the correct set { ting of legs beneath a table, chair or | stool does not agree with that of pres