The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1922 Page: 7 of 8
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and Accessories of Cha;
Easter there are very beautiful flowei
toques In which the shape is entire^
covered with blossoms, or the crow*
Is covered with them supported by i
narrow brim of crepe de chine. Some
times the toque is merely a mass W
lovely ’blossoms and sometlmeff a pro
fusion of loops and ends of narrow
picot-edged ribbon falls from the brip
at one side toward the back, Manj
sorts of blossoms are used, usually 4|
pastel colorings, andjoue is apt to tin*
among them little berries. The rlbbot
makes an added touch of briljianc*
when it has a gold or silver edge.
Whoever rtaade a dream of lovellnesi
come true In the flower toque shwqj
A BEAUTIFUL AFTERNOON DRESS
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THE LANCASTER HERALD
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^IVILIZED man of today is mightily
interested ■ in his ancestors—especial-
, ly in those away back who lived in
’ trees and caves and ate their food
iw. Most especially is he interest-
in that ancestor- who was the
Missing Link—the connecting link
sfc monkey and man.
Civilized man these daysJs discov-
ering relics of man pretty far back,
but the Missing Link appears stiil
That is to say, modern man hag
in finding relics of an animal
between ape and man that lie
lnitely assigned to either,
for the Missing Link is going on
, In spite of the fact that.there
boldly avow disbelief in Dar-
origin of species and in evo-
i of these scientists believe in Spon-
sion of life from protoplasm. Some
was introduced upon this earth
iy in space. Just the same, this
being rolled and scraped at the ex-
to And the Missing Link,
it “And” that is interesting the
fossilized skull discovered in North-
The scientists—at least some of
the Darwinian theory that Africa
original home of the human
engthened by this skull,
skull is complete with the excep-
jaw. MoreoVer, a collar hone,
part of a hip bone believed to
i also have been unearthed, and
anatomists to reconstruct the
the whole Rhodesian skeleton.
F the discovery was the “Bone cave”
Mill mine already famous fee the
tes and stalagmites and for
that the lime of which they
• composed have been largely re-
phgtes of zinc and lead,
commercial value of these forma-
to the transformation of this cave
strangest mines ever worked. The
of a mass of fossilized remains
leopards, rhlnoceri, hippopot-
bats and small mammals,
a of these animal remains had
no trace of man was discovered
60 feet below water level was
bones described were found
t, friable lead conglomerate.
Mum photographs of the Rho-
ligore showing varying types
t of the so-called Javan ape-man,
in 1894, which lacks a face. B is
Neanderthal man, so called from
Rhine province where the first
was discovered In 1857. C Is
Piltdown man, whose remains
Sussex, just before the World
skull of the Rhodesian man. E is
o and F the skull of a Kalmuck
ting existing species of a roan.
Calls the Rhodesian find “the
human bones that have seen the
irst began to talk about the
.’> He says they are ut least
old and bring man nearer
the apes, than he ever was
they throw roost important new light
ig story of our evolution. He
other things:
found the skull and some other bones
ve than known to us.
we need not wait for geologists to
icb other about the age. The skull
most perfectly preserved that we
ie brutality of the brain that once
grisly cranium leaps to the eye, as
Nearest Like Ape.
down from the top of my library the
of a low type of Australian, and
itaho. The Australian is a gentleman,
beside this. I run over the photo-
all the primitive human skulls we have,
world African is nearer to the ape
found at Piltdown a few years ago,
years old. is too respectable to
Only the skull-cap of what is
£<wer the world as the ape-man of Java
it; and the new skull Is decidedly in-
, he get to Rhodesia? Here is a large
* Interest of—let us say It frankly—the
The nearest skull to this was found
next nearest In Susses,
great triangle in y^ur mind and
I0ea of the cradle of the human
us xuve long held that It was on
is now below the waves of the Indian
), a lost bit of Africa which
It with India.
strongly confirms this, and It
feeding far the Americans
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who have Just gone to look for the remains of prim-
itive man in central Asia.
Lemuria, the lost continent to the east of Africa*
was probably the region where some accident of
time brought man’s ancestor down from the nut-
laden trees and bade him “work for a living.**
From that center he would pass easily to Asia
and Africa, and he would reach Europe by the
route which would bring the Babylonian mer-
‘ chants ages afterward.
R. L Pocock writes intrestingly about the Rho-
desian skull in comparison with other prehistoric
skulls and in connection with the “Missing Link”
in Conquest (London). Be says, among other
things:
“In an article o’n man’s descent, published in
February, 1920, I laid all the stress I could on the
importance of man’s foot, pointing out that it dif-
fers essentially from that of the apes in having the
great toe nnopposable to the others and hound
closely to them so that the foot is functionally
perfect as may'be for swift bipedal running in the
erect position. This modification of the foot is
accompanied by long, strong, straight legs, a back
hollowed above the loins and a head poised on a
vertical neck. In the apes the head is not poised
in that way. the back is not hollowed, the legs
are short, weak, and bent at the knees, and the
foot, instead of being formed for running, is of
the climbing type, the great toe being opposable
to the others and freely movable. '
“But there are other differences present in the
skull and teeth. In existing men the brain-case
is capacious and highly arched from the brows
backwards, the ridges over the brows are absent
or comparatively small : the face is small, the
Jaws protrude but little or not at all, and the chin
projects; the palate is short, wide, curved and
hollowed above, the teeth are all in contact, and
the canines are short, so that the Jaw Is capable
of moving from side to side, like a cow’s, during
mastication. In the apes, on the other hand, the
brain-case is comparatively small and hut little
arched from the brows backwards, the brow-
ridges are massive, the Jaws are large and pro-
jecting, and the chin recedes; the palate is long,
narrow, straight-sided and flatter above; the ca-
nine teeth are long, and the Jaws are Incapable
of moving sideways, mastication being effected
by upward movement of the lower jaw. There
is, however, one point connected with those dif-
ferences which I wish to impress upon you. Ex-
istfng races differ from each other considerably in
the size and shape of the brain-ease, the develop-
ment of the brow-ridges, the projection of the
Jaws, the size of the teeth, and the shape of the
palate; but. so far as I am aware, they do not dif-
fer appreciably, If at all, in the structure of the
spine, of the legs and of the feet, the parts sub-
servient to exclusively bipedal progression in the
upright attitude.
“Now the so-called ‘missing link’ should he an
animal so partaking of the characters of the ape
and man. so intermediate between the two, that
he could not be definitely assigned to either. Let
us now see If that claim can be made for any of
the extinct forms of man hitherto recorded.
“A great many fossil men have been discovered
who do not differ in any essential respects from
men of the present day. These show that our
species Is of great antiquity; and there is evi-
dence that he inhabited Europe in mid-Pleisto-
cene times, and overlapped both in time and dis-
tribution, and no doubt exterminated another spe-
cies called Neanderthal Man from the locality
where his first remains were discovered in 1857.
Since that year other skeletons have been un-
earthed in Gibraltar, Croatia, and elsewhere, and
we have a tolerably good idea what these men
were like. Professor Huxley, In 1890, wrote of
them: ‘They were short of stature, but power-
fully built, with strong, curiously curved thigh-
bone*, the lower end of which are so fashioned
that they must have walked with a bend at the
knees. Their long, depressed skulls had very strong
brow-rldges; their lower jaws, of brutal depth and
validity, sloped away from the teeth downwards
and backwards.’ To this we may add that there
la very little doubt that this man walked with a
much more shambling, slouching gait than we do.
Nevertheless, his brain was far larger than that
of any ape.
“Our knowledge of other extinct forms of the
human family is much less complete. One which
was, and is still, the subject of much controversy
is the famous PUtdown4man, whose remains were
discovered in Sussex just before the recent war.
Anthropologists admit the skull to be genuinely
''human and of a much higher type than that of
Neanderthal man on account of the more rounded
Jtop of the head. Nevertheless, this man was ge-
ologically older than Neanderthal man. Tire low-
er jaw is not like a man’s but a chimpanzee’s, and
some of the ablest American osteologists claim
it to have belonged to a chimpanzee, and there-
fore deny its connection with the brain-case. Eng-
lish anthropologists, on the other hand, believe the
Jaw and the brain-case to have come from the
same Individual. There the matter must rest un-
til further discoveries settle the question under
dispute. . ' *
“Difficulties of a somewhat similar nature beset
the determination of a third species, known as
Pithecanthropus (the ape-man), which was found
in Java in 1894. The brain was inferior in size
to that of any known man, living or extinct, hut
surpassed that of any ape. Near tills skull-top
were discovered a few teeth and a thigh-bone, the
latter resembling so closely the thigh of modern
man as to leave no reasonable doubt that if the
skull-top and Thigh-bone were owned by the same
individual, this Javan species walked erect as we
do; and since that is usually assumed to be the
case we see that the human type of leg was i*er-
fected before the skull in human evolution.
“From another source we now know this to
have been so; and that source is the fragmentary
skeletou of Rhodesian man recently discovered
burled in a cave at Broken Hlli, in Rhodesia. In
this man the leg bones were typically human, but
the top of the skull is very little vaulted and
shows scarcely a trace of forehead, a defect part-
ly due to the immense development of the brow-
ridges. The face is very broad across the eyes,
and very high from the edge of the orbit down
to the lower margin of the Jaw bone, which is
massive and prominent. Nevertheless, the palate
and teeth and other cranial features are human
in type.
“An answer cun now be given to your question:
’Have researches into the post history of man re-
vealed the existence of a species combining to
such an extent the characters of apes and men
as to deserve the title "Missing Link”?’ The an-
swer Is emphatically ‘No.’ Admittedly, every one
of the species above enumerated shows in a vary-
ing degree ape-like characters more or less lost
in existing-man; but so far as the material avail-
able warrants an opinion, they all belong unmis-
takably to the human family. Even the so-called
ape-man of Java, which has the roost ape-tike
skull-top of all, must be classified as a man, on ac-
count of the structure of his legs. The same would
apply, in my opinion, to the Rhodesian man, even
if his skull and teeth were much more ape-like
than they are.
“Although it is probable that none of the extinct
men above mentioned stands in the direct line of
our descent, being our ‘cousins’ rather than our
ancestors, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion
that the progenitor of existing man must have
been a hideous, brutal-looking being judged by our
standard of beauty. You can visualize him with-
out my help. You may see traces of him cropping
up as reversions in all sorts of people, and per-
haps it may interest you to know what are ‘high-
and ‘low’ characters in the people you meet and
amuse you to detect them in your friends. You
may, generally shaking, regard as ‘low’ charac-
ters: a retreuting forehead with thickened brow;
eyes small and deeply sunk ; nose with low bridge,
thickened at the end and expanded round the nos-
trils; cheek-bones high; jaws massive and pro-
jecting; chin receding; lower incisor teeth meet-
ing the upper edge to edge; oar with a flattened
upper rim and well-defined ‘Darwin's lobe.' On
the other hand, a high forehead without brow
thickening; large and moderately lnsurik eyes;
a nose with a high bridge and not thickened at
the eud or expunded round the nostrils; low cheek
hones; small vertical jaws; a prominent chin; low-
er incisor teeth closing behind the upper; ear
with a well-curled rim and Indistinct ‘Darwin’s
lobe'—these may be taken as ‘high’ characters
indicating suppression of ancestral traits in our
physiognomy. If you look at the Greek statues
you will see that, without the stimulus of a knowl-
edge of anthropology, the Greek conception of
human beauty led to the chiseling of features of
a ‘high’ type, as different as can be from those
of primitive man,”
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’a a way to make even youth envy
: her.
| The fashionable fabrics play into
the hands of matrons this season-
in themselves they are dignified and
rich. *A11 the crepes and especially
the heavier ones and the brocaded
patterns, seem to belong to her. Gold
and silver cloth, Persian and Paisley
patterns in silk, jet trimmings, bead
and other fringes, are at the call oi
the designers, and they revel in them,
To suit individual style, they often
elect to show what can be done with
a plain silk crep^ or other fabric, un-
*omed with trimmings and not com-
-ned with any other material.
One designer’s attempt of this kind
resulted in the brilliantly successful
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below, must have bad in mind
ter wedding. Having ch
beloved of flowers, the
fused t6 adorn the rose and
toque entirely of raagnl
blown blossoms. ' A
world cannot have too much
□ess, and so a muff to
added. Nothing more en
be Imagined for the at'
bride.
One of the virtues of i
toque and muff set is Its a
and another is Its simpficl _ T
not difficult forlihe milliner to
and may be appropriately
either .simple or elaborate
crepe de chine Is shown in'
with adornment of silver b;
ATTRACTIVE ACCE8SORIE8
afternoon dress shown in the picture,
^his is of gray crepe marocain, made
with full panels of uneven length that
fall below the hem of the underskirt.
Each of these panels Is edged with a
bias fold of the crepe, the long sleeves
are split along the upper arm but held
to the wrist by a narrow band of crepe
and their edges are piped with it.
They are set in an underbodice which
is reavesled by a draped overblouse
that opens at the aides to the waist-
line.
Among other things that designers
have provided for the coming of
agine it in periwinkle blue, the
and muff in natural rose pink,
the costume will prove irresistible. .
It Is that in any of the lovely
colors.
Threads of gold
making lace are
MOO yards of U only
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Tufts, Minnie Wetmore. The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1922, newspaper, March 17, 1922; Lancaster, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth543280/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lancaster Genealogical Society.