Evening star., 1932-11-30

One maiden believed to have lived
20. 900 years ago in the area now occu-
pied by the State of Minnesota is cred
tied with having thrown considerable
light On the prehistoric affairs Of this
continent. Prof. jerks of the Univer-
sity Of Minnesota makes the announce
ment that the remains of this maiden
point to her having been Of the Ice age,
while marks which survive reveal .
romance and killing.
1.-THE attractive story built upon
these few bones" in the opinion of the
Appleton Post Crescent, "opens up for
us the great possibilities Of geology. 1t
is not Just a cold and forbidding sub
ject, as dead as the inarticulate things
with which it deals. It Is romance,
living. pulsating romance. It Is merry
imagination putting into dead things
the souls that departed so many CEN
turies ago as to have forgotten their
the scientist as stating that the young
woman was shot from the front
through the right lung and probably
through the heart by an arrow, though
it might have been spear" That
paper also offers its own speculation as
to the events appearing in the ancient
record with the statement: Possibly
these scientists are correct, but 1t is
matter for shivering to think that any
body today can look back 40. 900 years
with such perfect eyesight. Perhaps
they didn't hit the point. Instead Of
being the shrinking victim Of the mur-
der-lust rampant on those chilly morns.
why may not the lady have committed
suicide, perhaps the earliest Juliet, who
could not bear to see her Romeo carry
ing frozen fish into a rivals cavea'
Calling the skeleton "a very interest
ing and pathetic bunch of human re-
mains" the Boston Transcript declares
that scientific as well as sentimental
interest attaches to the girl Of Ottertail
County" and continues: "As for senti-
ment. perhaps she was cold to her lover.
what more natural, since she was Of the
ice ase? As to science, we needed in
this country relics to hold rivalry with
the men Of Piltdown. of Neanderthal
and Java. We have them beaten with
the Mongoloid Minnesota maiden" The
Transcript enlarges upon the actions
involved in the fate of the girl, stating:
at Is reasonably clear that the aSsassi-
nation of q young girl, whose skeleton.
after lying in one spot for 10000 years,
has been dug up from the bottom OF an
old glacial lake bed, was passionate
II k something to have the motive OF
the crime determined. This girl
of III was quite coquettish, as her abun-
dant and well disposed ornaments
proved. A Princess Westamoe Of the
late glacial age! And this little pack Of
bones tells more than the tragedy Of
jealous lovers dagger or spearhead.
The young lady. 1t seems, had q Mon
golian nose-tip-t tilted like the petal of
Q flower perhaps, but ut all events in
dicating Asiatic extraction. The as
sumption that the original inhabitants
Of this continent came from Asia Is
strengthened by the discovery. 1t also
indicates that Minnesota was settled
by somebody . very long time before
Father Hennepin strayed TO the shores
Of the Upper Mississippi"
The layman win speculate most
about the supposed crime ITSELF" in the
opinion Of the Dayton Daily News,
which draws its own conclusions from
the surrounding circumstances, on which
it makes the comment: "The skeleton
lay on its side. possibly as the victim
fell, with an antler dagger, the point
broken, nearby. A shell pendant. pre-
sumably part Of a necklace, suggests
that even prehistoric woman made use
Of ornamentation. Did this one die at
the hands OF a jealous lover? Though
the murder outs spite OF 10000 years
Of geological changes, which keep many
secrets from us. such details will never
be known. The human struggle for
existence. waged against tremendous
natural odds. should have banded men