Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-06-20
THE UNSCIENTI-
FIG SCIENTIST.
Introducing Scotty in the First Of
His Weekly Letters Back
Home.

| sands - or even hundreds Oh tones
upon the subject of Ethnology and
its first cousin, Archaeology? Meth,
sr have | Neither have some nine
| y-nine per cent of our fellow citizens
| Would you read them If you had time
Neither would I! Neither would the
same per centage of our brother-men
don't believe / would wade clear
through one of the aforementioned
ONES on a bet, ane probably |
Wouldn't understand or remember an
appreciable part of it if | did-to
| win the bet.
But if you could walk into a beau
lful big building on the crest OF a
lightly hill overlooking San Diego,
he bay, Coronado, Point Iona, the
5oronad Islands and a nickei's worth
f Mexico which is considerable
round at present market values -
say if you could walk into such a
ailding and see before you the his
Dry of your kind portrayed in picture
lodels, relies, all of them absolutely
.uthentic, graphically Illustrating the
)volution of yourself from the pax
yzoic age-if that was the start
Town to the perfected product embed
ed in your own handsome self -
wouldn't you jump at the chance? 4
would
How do we best remember things
n general? by our mental images
+ them of course. How do we re
lember Napoleon Bonaparte, for ex
lmple? Through the pictures yol
nave seen of him-probably as the
iaddest, most serious little fat man
rou ever knew of-that, however be-
ng but one of his characteristics.
How do we remember the earmarks
Of the Mesozoic or the Caenozoic pei
cd? Well, frankly l don't.
But here in this massive Ethnol-
ogy Building will be collected. the
most remarkable exhibit that has ev-
ar been attempted. 1t is most
ambitious undertaking and will rep
resent the sum total of human know
edge of the history of you and me
md the rest of us. The ablest tai
ent in the world has been working
IN this for years. No expense has
been spared And where it has been
impossible to purchase certain col
ections which were logically neces-
AIRY to complete and round out the
Exhibit, they were borrowed. Incl
ientally the institution which loan
I'd them did not take, any chances
hey exacted huge bonds for the
safe return of their invaluable collec-
lions. The result is the most COM
)lete and unique exhibit of the sort |
ever brought together under one
.oof-and considerable part of it
las never been under a roof before.
To get it all together the Smith
sonian Institute Of Washington has
sent it's explorers unto the ends of
he earth-and other places-where
hey dug UP some of the prehistoric
ed men and then dug out before
he descendants of the said prehisr
ORIG red men could dig In and shoot
hem full of poisoned arrows and
lther souvenirs. The School OF Ann
erican Archaeology has contributed
and has fallen in with
he idea of making the whole exhib-
d graphic and comprehensive to an
mscientific lowbrow like me, and
mother one like you.
And SO we may go to school again,
Without the inconvenience of set
ours, or text books or the stern
we of a long suffering teacher; and
n a few days, or even hours, of
such intense interest that they pass
III too quickly, we may learn more
about our human history, and re-
it, than we learned in all
yur school years combined And
when the youngster says; dad, tell
ne about the Crustaceans, or "Why Il
vas a troglodyte?" you'll be able to
ay down the evening paper and say
With becoming impress siveness; "Well
ION, being blind on one side, the
roglodyte progreS sed in circle,
hereby beating Senator-well, you
now the dub l mean-to it by
ouple of million years, and'-but /
aven't seen the complete exhibit
ct myself
Talk about your royal roads to
Voa1re fo,s fho 1nooo 80 o4hora