The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-18
Prehistoric, Connecti- cut Stone Age h.. dians He Fought, < Gambled, Boa s te d |. and Died-Heap Big Indian Inspires Heap Big Post.


 Professor Warren King Moore head, has unearuhed two com plete skeletons at Laurel Beach, needles of sharpened bone, crude pottery, a stone axe. arrow heads and other small mattsrs. He is convinced that here vas the site of a prehistoric, stone age village.
 The professor undoubtedly is right. He has opeDed an Indian grave. All savages of Connecti- cut, before the arriva1 of white men, were Iivingfin the stone age.' and in the prehistoric period.
 In Europe, Asia and Africa the stone age ended countless centur- ies ago. The Egyptians smelted metals 5000 years B. c. For the Indians of Connecticut, the stone age ruled in unbroken brutality until Europeans came with fire arms. fire water and annihila- tion,
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 Where now are the Wepa- waugs, the Potatucks, the Quinni- pfacs. the Hammonassetts, the Wangunks, Podunks, Nipmucks. the Mohegans and the Pequots. Their bodies are mouldered in the the grave. Their origins are lost in misty antiquity.
 The last of the Pequots fell in the swamp, which is marked with monument on the Post Road. a few miles beyond Bridge port. The other Indians, poor creatures. could not endure the whfteman, nor the whiteman's firewater. and they perished of alcohol and contiguity.
 Savage races brought into civ tlization fade away. This we'll attested belief Is curiously em- ployed in Bernard Shaw's book, Back to Methuselah," in which the short-lived characters. men of the modern standard of civil fzed intelligence, soon died of fatigue in the presence of his clever long-lived characters. The Indians were too tired to live. They could not endure the hustle of the Pilgrims.
 The Indian danced and gampied. His women did most of the hard labor The men hunted ana dshed, and held the women in low repute. The Indians had a spirit of evil. Hobbamocko, and a good spirit, Kieatan. They be- Neved in the soul. in its exist ence after death. They gave the soul a name which signified clear sight.
 It was the custom of the Yn- dians to bury their dead, with a variety of implements, cooking utensils and weapons for war. Their weapons were bows and arrows and stone hatchets. The leader of a. war party often made c long speech reviling and ridi- cu1ing the enemy and extolling she courage of his own people.
 
 The Indian having killed his foe. sca1ped him. but he was a novice at the art of killing, have neither high explosives nor poison gas, and his battles were seldom bloody. He took the scalp of his enemy. and kept 1t as q token of his courage. He preferred to fight in the night, and took his foeman sleeping, like the airships which came to London. or the Allied ones. which visited the Rhipe.
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 The Indian woman set modern fashions. Her clothing was in two pieces, short leather under garment, and a skirt which was belted about the waist, and reach ed within six inches or so of the feet. A spendthrift husband might sell this outer garment or give it away, but custom did not allow him to seize the shirt, and the woman held stoutly to it until she received another.
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 The Indian women had modern traits. They painted, dressed their hair in wampum and pol ished the hair, to make it shine. They were fond of succotash. a mixture of corn and beans. They did splint work, and painted the baskets with images of flowers and birds. The pots. dishes, spoons, the pestles for grinding grain; the arrowheads and the tomahawks, and other things of stone, were made by the men. When an Indian youth wanted to marry a girl he gave her pres ents.
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 These stone age prehistoric people were very like ourselves.
 They fought more, gambled more. worked less. and were