The Washington times., 1917-09-30

The picture shows at night in African village
The ancestors of these savages thousands of centuries
ago USED THEIR BRAIN A LITTLE. They>were weak
with feeble hands and small jaws They had to think or
die out
Some one of these savages feeling the heat of fire
started accidentally by lightning the rubbing together of
dry branches grass, asked himself the question: why
can't keep that and feel its warmth whenever chooss?
That thought the beginning of everything that we
call civilization.
Fire enabled men to keep off the wild animals It enabled
them to cook their food.
Fire taught the savsges to signal from hill to hill It
enabled them by protecting their young children in mid
winter to increase their numbers
Fire melted first bronze, then iron, the human
moved up from the age Of wood and stone.
Fire became sacred symbol in all religions because it
meant safety, warmth, living together
Man alone thanks to some thinking ancestor of more
than half million years ago. conquered fire and made it his
servant The unintegent apes will sit around the fire till
It dies and then shver Not one has been known
TO put stick upon tie fire to keep it going
At first men, finding the fire started accidentally,
red with them their journey and kept it alive in their
villages their precious possession long before they
had learned by the rubbing Of sticks the striking Of flint
to produce fire at will
The ancient myth of Prometheus stealing fire from
heaven founded on for fires value And
the vesta virgins of Rome whose business to keep
the sacred lamp burning-they buried alive they
allowed love affair to result in putting out the light
these vest virgins the high honor paid them and the
tesome life they led to memory of the day when keeping
fire alive was the most important work in the world
We carelessy light match, turn the electric
light ask the antor for steam and take for grant
ed the very greatest accomplishment Of the human race
the control Of fire for heat, light, and power.
This picture is intended to make and think
Of the truth which needs repettonhat there only
real power in the world-TH0UGHT
What is this picture is repeated every night in
the African forest. woman and child WITH THE
FIRE BURNING that fire the product Of thought safe
from the attacks of ferocous beasts that would destroy
them.
What that fire is the woman in the Jungle thought
is to and your life As long you keep that burning
in your BRAIN long there is real fire and dull ashes
within your mind you safe from the dangers of this
civilized Jungle Poverty Helpless Old Age Bitter Depend
ence on the charity and good nature Of others
This is one of the pictures that we are glad to send tn
the homes in which this Sunday newspaper read because
it Is picture useful young and women and especially
picture fathers mothers to discuss with
their children It be made perfectly clear interesting
and useful to little boy girl five six years of age
Show the picture to your child and explain in smr
words
The mother lives alone with her little boy in the biz
African forest There is the big gorilla monkey that would
Ike to steal her food and eat it. There the fierce oness
that would like to carry away her little boy.
These big animals do not think They frightened by
the red fire Being very ignorant they afraid of every
thing that they do not understand.
And the and her little boy safe from the wild
animals because she understands fire and not afraid of it
and keeps burning To this you add few words about
the danger Of fire handled careessy about mindng your
father and mother the little boy in the picture doeshe
would not touch the fire when his mother tells him not to-
What develops the mind Of the child above all things is
what is said earnestly by the father and mother That is
the great education
As you talk to your child you think to yourself what
keeps these feoous animals back from the thing they crave
is ignorance FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN. And that is what
keeps back the human and has kept
dread Of the unknown. !
The only power is thought
The only wealth is knowledge.