Washington County News | 1926-10-21 | Page 3 | Earth's Music Wasted on Prehistoric Man?

Earth's Music Wasted on Prehistoric Man? Prehistoric man, who slew the megatherium, didn't call It that. More like, he designated it as the "Oont," or something brief and resounding. One syllable was good enough for him. He undoubtedly knew no other than one-syllable one-syllable speech. Notwithstanding his own meager contributions to the music on earth, primitive man must have heard and weighed some. The birds sang In the bowers as sweetly as they do now. What Impression did that nightingale make on his small and fuzzy ear? Did the melodious notes touch his rudimentary rudi-mentary soul, or did he merely want to eat the nightingale? The more often we speculate on the first men, the greater sympathy we feel for them. We should be greatly Interested Inter-ested In one of them If he were In existence ex-istence now. As It Is, we have to be content with studying some backward races still here. St. Louis Globe-Democrat