Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-09-16
SEEING THE FAIR
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Visitors to Ask ouestions-msny OBJ
ieets Three to Six Thousand Years
Old In the Egyptian Section OF An
thropolosy - How the Human Race
Acquired the Habit Of smokins-At-
tributed to a Small 8oy-Osselop-
nent Of the chisel, Az and Ratchet
a Cane Seat Chair 4,5oo Years Old,
subtraetins the ssst-Oissersstion on
Furniture lsgs-The ArehaeoiosIst
Mound Builders Relies.
ESPECIAL. CORRESPONDENCE BY
MARK BENNlTIl
1t was a case Of Let the women DO
the work-do the work-do the work
in Egypt some thousands Of years
ago. When a man died and was buried
his friends-probably his men friends
placed beside him a faience image
few inches long. This was his ushabdu
or answerer. Having managed 10 /
avoid contact with work in life, this
precaution was taken against the ne
cessity for it after he had passed TO the
unknown. Here are the "answerers
by the dozens. dug up from Egyptian
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 it. These an
swerers have never answered except
10 the sound OF the pickax 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
chronological exhibit of the Egyptian
government mummy of the period
500 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 Anthropology building. This is
one of those solid stone structures in
the western part of the worlds fair
grounds, built to stand thousand
years or SO.
When we put this and that together
and come to a conclusion we call II
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 a custom and the
implements Of that custom.
Reading the lines of this kindergar-
ten lesson we find that stones or pieces
of wood were followed out to make lit
tie vessels in which to carry fire from
one place to another 1t was found
that the fire needed a little draft from
the bottom and so a smaller hole was
continued through the wood or stone
That in itself was an invention worthy
of Franklin, an Edison or Da Ninci
considering the slim foundation fol
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 tC
smoke-who put his breath to the small
hole in the fire carrier to prevent the
glow of coal from going out Perhaps
he crowded a little dried clover bios
som or the dead leaf Of an aromatic
plant into the hollow place to feed the
little fire and blew or drew his breatl
through 1t again and again-and thus
new habit was forever fastened OF
the human race.
Gleefully he went out behind thu
practice his new art. We love to SEX
the restless ocean lap the shore, thu
rain to fall, the fire to dance and di
and leap to life again, we like the spell
of curling smoke before the eyes-ah
there's the kernel of the habit-th
blind man does not smoke.
In time the straight pipe was glvel
a turn so that it might hold the con
tents the more securely. The qualit.
that fire has of seeming to restore it
self when given new supply of oxy
gen gave to it mystical power in tn
mind of primitive man. Hence tn
pipes We're carved in various effigie
and smoking became ceremony. Tn
calumet of the American Indian, pip
with tobacco bowl on one side and
tomahawk blade on the other, th
handle a pipestem, was the highes
development Of the pipe among tn
aborigines. In the council of tribe
tho OF ho1 hio oh fha ,,;r n
peace or the implement of war.
The shining beveled chisel of tn
hardware store and the valued tool o
the carpenter and cabinet maker wa
In prehistoric times a sharpened stone
Here we have the development al
pointed out to US as plain as A, B, c
in the synthetic section of Anthropol
ogy-frst thin edged stone as natur,
made it, then a Clipped flint or {
ground or rubbed edge of hematite. 4
wooden handle with socket In tn,
end to hold the stone served for {
small chisel. Civilization added tn,
bevel. The stone ak, fastened to han
die with thongs, developed in the sam
way. The drilling Of a hole through
the stone head for the handle was
distinct step. The elimination, so fa
as prehistoric relics indicate, was in th,
substitution of copper for stone.
Models indicate the various stages O
the development of the wheel from
rolling cylinder to the spoked wheel.
Some Egyptian child must have pu