Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-20

Between nose and cheeks were no canine
fossae. such as In all the present human
races. So. the upper jaw formed with the
straight-cut prOlongation of the molar
bones the muzZle mentioned.
The canine teeth were very strongly de-
veloped-they might have been tusks.
And though the lower jawbone is thick.
with enormous hinges below the ears, 1t
retreats without chin.
He was strangely short and stocky for
his immense thick head. The Incarnation
of his leg bones proves that he walked
with bent knees. Nor did. he regularly
hold himself upright. He would rest on
all tours. This Is proved by the position
of the skull on the spinal column Only
enormous muscles at the nape OF the neck
could pull his head back for horizontal
vision.
DIR. Ludwig Reichardt Of Basic. describ-
ing. yet more recently. the skeleton of a
youth of eighteen and the skull of a young
woman of contemporaneOus burial with
our hero, discovered by the Swiss archie
ologist Hauser near Moustier says that
these primitive ancestors of ours were as
frightful looking as a gorilla. (Hausers
skeletons went to dust on exposure to the
air, but the skulls remain).
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The chunky. Immensely muscular body
was covered with thick hair Our hero
lived in land of few vegetables. His
arms were mere clubs, wooden spears
with points sharpened in fire, and heavy
hand-stones rudely Clipped to cutting
edge. His scraper stone might have been
only TO clean meat from bones.
lie was often reduced to eating mice.
frogs. lizards, snakes, worms, eggs, honey
and roots; and these We're the habitual
food of collaborating women and all chill
dren-their average procured by personal
eXertiOn.
Condemned to purely animal life. they
.x~ix- 61n6 In hnvl nf a
slain,'' as in the late Langdon Smiths
magnificent poem: killing and eating their
enemies. and possibly their friends with
out scruple. when other food was lacking.
Recently Prof. Gorjanowic-krambeEg
discovered. in a Croatian cave the dam
aged remains Of ten such victims Of the
Mousterien period whose cannibaiism can
not be doubted. The skulls had been
opened to get at the brains, and the
bones split with art for the marrow.
The skull of the young woman I'M
earthed by Hauser presents neither in it
self. jaws or teeth what are called Neand-
erthal- AIoustier characters so prominent
in the two men.
Quatrefages and Hamy in their "Cranla
Ethnica'' had already deduced, In this
earliest race. profound dinerences De
tween the masculine and feminine skull.
In a word. it is first deduced and now
materially proved that woman long eari-
est quit the uglier brutal forms, develop
ing alone, though side by side with man,
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and that million years ago.
In time that man knows;
Yet here tonight, in the mellow light,
We sit at DelmonicoS.
Your eyes deep as the Devon springs,
Your hair ia as dark as jet:
Your years few. your life is new.
Your soul untried. And yet
Our trail is the Kimmeridge clay
And the scars Of the Purbeck flags:
We have left homes in the BagshOt stones
And deep in the Correzc crags."
He was your grandfather and mine, lineal
and direct. though many times removed.
He has the right to prove it, ant you
are bound to recognize him by the force
of the multiplication table-this Neander-
thaloid man of La-Chapelle-aux-Sa Saints.
Dying at such an advanced age as near
sixty years. he certainly had children and
grandchildren-who indeed. buried him.
They married early. as some curious OBJ
servations of NIetchnikoff, too special for
general reading, indicate.
And, look. one fruitful couple among
his descendants would at any time have
sufficed to start the torrent of descend
ants anew. They continued living untold
thousands Of years in France-passed over