The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-08-24
a pseA1s ON PRIMITIVE MAN.

mis- origin anu lne savage tralJS ne
transmitted to his descendants. that
he had no eyes, ears or any other
perceptive organs for anything else.
Indeed, he was more familiar with
the gibbon, orang outang, chimpan.
zee and gorilla, mans nearest rela-
tives, than the members of his own
family.
Kate Edmonds alone of all his
children sympaihized with him in
his studies and was consequently his
Ravorite. Kate worshiped her fat
ther, and It is questionable II her
enthusiasm for fossils was not as
sumed for the purpose OF pleasing
the dear old man, AT any rate, when
she was eleven years old her mother
met her one morning on the street
with a necklace Of bones around
her neck and ordered her to go
home and take off "the horrld"
thing.
As Kate grew older she Joined her
father in his studies and on one oc-
casion delighted him by discovering
similarity In the big toe bone OF
two animals which he had previous.
ly considered to belong to different
species From this time forth he
made her an assistant instead of a
pupil and she worked with him
continuously.
But, unfortunately for her father,
Kate became woman. Not that
the professor noticed a change
which occurred in a brief season.
He took no note Of changes except
those that only ages could effect.
When Kate took his hand and told
him that she was about to be mar
ried he was thunderstruck. What
have you done with your doll?" ho
moaned.
Kate went with her husband to
live in distant city. For a brief
season after her departure the pro
J fessor's bones failed to interest him.
At the end of year Kate wrote
her mother that she was coming
home for a visit, but asked her not
to inform her father, since she
rived at the commencement season
and at the hour when the president
was holding reception, with Pro
fessor Edmunds In attendance SO
Kate arrayed herself In reception
costume, went over to the president
and, taking position behind por-
there I'm a room adjoining the one
where her father was, began to talk
pehistoric man In his hearing.
Upon my word said the profes.
sor, there is lady in there who
knows more about the tertiary per.
iod than any woman | have ever
heard talk. But She is making one
egregious blunder. Introduce me to
| her"
| The professor gas introduced to
his daughter, but whether he had
forgotten her entirely or was too
deeply engrossed in his subject to
recognize her
| IL heard you say, madam" he
began, that evidences of the exist
ence of mans progenitors are not
1
| ing the eocine system, division OF
the tertiary, several orders of nam,
mails were developed, including the
ancestors of lemurs, monkeys, an.
thropoid or manlIlte apes"
But these are only the germs so
to speak, not man himself" Kate
replied.
There is no beginning. no stop
| In development. The anthropoid
apes are simply continuation in
the development of man"
And do you think. professor, that
man OF the present day will develop
into something higher?"
"Undoubtedly--tha Us. II our
planet is not in the meanwhile
knocked into dust or burned by con
cussion at meeting some one OF
those Opaque bodies known to be
plunging through space"
"or comet" said Kate, with q
twinkle in her eye.
Nonsense. madam. Comets are
gaseous The earth has passed
through their tails often"
ITO return to man-man In his
parent stage of development What
would you think OF father who
would forget his own child?"
chip after chip, and within an hour
Such a failure Of the faculty OF
memory would undoubtedly be in
herited from his british ancestors
We have no evidence that lions
tigers, cats, dogs and other brutes
remember their cubs after they are
grown and have passed away from
their parents"
do you refer to man in the pres
ent stage-to yourself, for instance
AS brutal and to your child as q
cub?"
BY no means. | have passed the
brute condition, but now and again
traits, like ruliments of organs thai
have ages ago become useless and
degenerated, must necessarily crop
out"
But If the parent forgets the
child why not the child forget the
parent?"
In the brute state the only use
the offspring has for the parent Is
l.