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Show THE TV T l TT j TIMES-NEW- NEPHI. UTAH S. I i SPRING SPORT SUITS AND BRIDESMAIDS' MILLINERY makers of sports clothes are their innings, for their products were never In so grcut demand. One neeil not be at all nth-le- t ic to be properly attired In sports tmlts and to benefit by their lively charm ; It is enough to look on at gports and dress to suit environment. Flunnel has been added to the list of materials for summer sports clothes, giving the designers a tine medium for skirts and suits. Styles point to stripes, either narrow or broad, and to burred patterns, both often In combl- - THE much latitude allowed the bride In choosing it, that the maids are equally Eueh one hopes that the concerned. choice will be a happy one for her; suited to her style and at least a little fluttering to her face. Youth carries off the most picturesque in millinery and the shops are full of new and enchanting hats. Shapes are graceful, colors lovely so that the bride and her maids may go confidently In quest of headwear, benr-in- g In mind that there Is no such word as "fail." Designers have foreseen this v IVILIZED man of today Is mightily Interested In his ancestors especially In those away back who lived In trees and caves and ate their food raw. Most especially Is he Interested In that ancestor who was the Missing Link the connecting link between monkey and man. Civilized man these days is dlscov- " ering relics of man pretty far back, but the Missing Link appears still to be missing. That Is to say, modern man has not yet succeeded In finding relics of an animal so- - intermediate between ape and man that he could not be definitely assigned to either. This search for the Missing Link Is going on all over the world. In spite of the fact that there ajre scientists who boldly avow disbelief In Dar-vlntheory of the origin of species and In evolution. ' Some of these scientists believe In spontaneous combustion of life from protopVasm. Some believe that life was introduced upon this earth from another body In space. Just the same, this old earth is being rolled and scraped at the expense of millions to find the Missing Link. The most recent "find" that Is Interesting the scientists Is a fossilized skull discovered in Northern Rhodesia. The scientists at least some of them say that the Darwinian theory that Africa may have been the original home of the human race Is greatly strengthened by this skull. This Rhodesia skull is complete with the exception of the lower jaw. Moreover, a collar bone, a leg bone and a part of a hip bone believed to belong to the skull also have been unearthed, and these may enable anatomists to reconstruct the main parts of the whole Rhodeslan skeleton. The scene of the discovery was the "Bone cave" of the Broken Hill mine already famous for the beauty of its stalactites and stalagmites and for the remarkable fact that the lime of which they were originally composed have been largely replaced by phosphates of line and lend. It was the commercial value of these formations that led to the transformation of this cave Into one of the strangest mines ever worked. The floor consisted of a mass of fossilized remains of elephants, Hons, leopards, rhlnocerl, hippopotami, antelopes, birds, lints and smnll mammals. Hundreds of tons of these animal remains had been removed, but no trace of man was discovered until a depth ot CO feet below water level was reached, when the bones described were found surrounded by soft, friable load conglomerate. The Illustrations show photographs of the Rhodeslan skull. In the figure showing varying types Javan of skulls A Is that of the found In Java in 1804, which lacks a face. B Is the skull of the Neanderthal man. so called from the valley in the Rhine province where the first skull of the type was discovered In 1S57. C Is the skull of the Plltdown tnun, whose remains were discovered In Sussex, Just before the World war. D Is the skull of the Rhodeslnn man. B Is the skull of a negro and F the skull of a Kalmuck Tartar, representing existing species of a man. Joseph McAbe calls the Rhodeslnn find "the most Interesting human bones that have seen the light since science first begnn to talk about the of man." He says they are at least ' antiquity hu'lf a million years old and bring man nearer to his poor relations, the aies, than lie ever was before. And they throw most Important new light upon the fascinating story of our evolution. He says, among other things: We have found the skull and some other bones ' of the most primitive man known to us. In this case we need not wait for geologists to quarrel with each other about the age. The skull is one of the most perfectly preserved that we have, and the brutality of the brain that once lodged In that grisly cranium leaps to the eye, as the French say. Nearest Like Ape. I take down from the top of my library the whitened skull of a low type of Australian, ani compare the twe. The Australian Is a gentleman, an academician beside this. I run over the photo-grapof nil the primitive human skulls we have, African is nearer to the ape and this than any. The skull found at Plltdown a few years ago, too respectable to though 4K)XHlO years old. Is skull-caof what Is brook comparison. Only the of Java known all over the world as the ape-macomes near It ; and the new skull Is decidedly Inferior. How did he get to Rhodesia? Here Is a large It frankly the part of the Interest of let us say human boast. The nearest skull to this was found In Java; the next nearest In Sussex. I'lcture that great triangle In your mind and yon get a good Idea of the crsdle of the human race. Most of us have long held that It was on land which Is now below the waves of the Indian Ocean (as we know), a lost bit of Africa which once connected It with India. The new discovery strongly confirms this, and It will not be pleasant reading for the Amerlcuns I j 's ape-ma- old-worl- d n just gone to look for the remains of primitive man In central Asia. Lemuria, the lost continent to the east of Africa, was probably the region where some accident of n time brought man's ancestor down from the 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 merchants ages afterward. n R. I. Pocock writes Intrestlngly about the skull in comparison with other prehistoric skulls and in connection with the "Missing Link" In Conquest (London). He says, among other things: "In an article on 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 differs essentially from that of the apes In having the great toe unopposuble to the others and bound 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 buck Is not hollowed, the legs are short, weak, and bent at the knee3, 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. in the "But there are other differences-presenskull and teeth. In existing men the brain-cas- e Is capacious and highly arched from the brows bnckwurds, the ridges over the brows are absent or comparatively small : the face is small, the Jaws protrde 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-cas- e Is comparatively small and but little arched from the brows backwards, the brnw-rlilgare massive, the Jaws are large and projecting, and the chin recedes; the palate Is long, and flatter above; the canarrow, straight-sidenine teeth are long, and the Juws are incapable of moving sideways, mastication being effected by upward movement of the lower Jaw. There Is, however, one liliit connected with those differences which I wish to Impress upon you. Exother considerably In iting races differ from eachbrain-casthe developthe size and shnpe of the the projection of the ment of the Jaws, the size of the teeth, and the shnpe of the palate; but. so far as I am Inaware, they do not difthe structure of the fer appreciably, If it all. spine, of the legs mid of the feet, the parts subservient to exclusively blpedul progression In the upright attitude. "Now the 'missing link' should be an nnltnnl so partaking of the characters of the ape and man, so Intermediate between the two, that he could not be definitely assigned to either. I.et 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 evidence Ihut he Inhabited Europe In times, and overlapped both In time and distribution, and no doubt exterminated another species called Neanderthal Man from the locnllty where his first remains were dlscoveVed in 18.17. Since that year other skeletons have leen unearthed In Gibraltar, Croatia, and elsewhere, and we have a tolerably good Idea what these men were like. Professor Huxley, In IS!), wrote of them: 'They were short of stature, but powerfully built, with strong, curiously curved thighbones, the lower end of which are so fashioned that they must have walked with a hend at the knees. Their long, depressed skulls had very strong their lower Jaws, of brutal depth and solidity, 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 who have nut-lade- Rho-desia- t d brow-ridge- brow-ridge- 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 Plltdown man, 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 top of the head. Nevertheless, this man was geologically older than Neanderthal man. The lower 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 therefore deny Its connection with the bruln-casEnglish anthropologists, on the other hand, believe the to have come from the jaw and' the brain-cas- e same individual. There the matter must rest until further discoveries settle the question under dispute. "Difficulties of a somewhat similar nature beset the determination of a third species, known as which was found Pithecanthropus (the til Java In 18U4. The bruin was inferior in size to that of any known man, living or extinct, but surpassed that of cny ape. Near this skull-towere discovered a few teeth and a thigh-bonthe lutter resembling so closely the thigh of modern mail as to leave no reasonable doubt that If the skull-towere owned by the same and thigh-bonIndividual, this Javun 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 perfected before the skull In human evolution. "From another source we now know this to have been so; and that source Is the fragmentary skeleton of Rhodeslan man recently discovered burled in a cave at Broken Hill, 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 partly due to the Immense development of the The face Is very broad across the eyes, and very high from the edge of the orbit down to the lower mnrgln of the jaw bone, which Is massive and prominent. Nevertheless, the palate and teeth and other cranial features are human in type. "An answer can now be given to your question : "Have researches Into the past history of nion revealed the existence of a species combining to such nn extent the characters of apes and men as to deserve the title "Missing Link"?' The answer Is emphatically 'No.' Admittedly, every one of the species above enumerated shows In a varycharacters more or less lost ing degree ope-lik- e In existing man; but so far as the material available warrants an opinion, they all belong unmistakably to the human family. Even the of Java, which has the most ape-likape-maskull-toof all. must be classified as a man on account of the structure of his legs. The same would m' opinion, to the Rhodeslnn man, even opp'y. If his skull and teeth were much more ape-lik- e 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' rn fiver than our ancestors. It Is Impossible to avoid the conclusion thut the progenitor of existing man must have being Judged by our been a hideous, brutal-lookinstandard of beauty. You can visualize him without toy help. You may see traces of him cropping up as reversions In all sorts of people, and perhaps 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 way, generally sieaklng, regard as "low charac ters: a retreating forehead witn thickened brow; eyes small and deeply sunk; nose with low bridge, thickened at the end and expanded round the noshigh; Jaws massive and pro trils; cheek-bone- s meet tecting; chin receding; lower incisor teeth Ing the upper edge to edge; ear with a flattened 'Darwin's lobe.' On upper rim nnd the other lilted, a high forehead without brow thickening; large and moderately Institik eyes a nose with a high bridge and not thickened at the end or expanded round the nostrils; low cheek bones; small vertical jaws; a prominent chin; low-e- r Incisor teeth closing behind the npper; ear rim and Indistinct 'Darwin's with a 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 'blub' 'ype, as different as can b from those of primitive man." x ! lijyfLJ flHuF l j , V rtf. k ' j .nj A e. yWmnswWMW Ml wWW XWBgMfeWcw Sport Suit of Flannel. A ape-man- ), p e p brow-ridge- I XT .' "their' hats are in the ring." Four beautiful models, sure of making a triumph in the bridal cortege; are shown In the group below. For formal wedding, nothing lovelier can be Imagined than the fine hair-braihut at the top of the group, with Its narrow, supporting under-brlof georgette and Its soft, ostrich feather wreath straying over the brim edge. It is an adorable bat In any of the fashionable light colors. If the bride would have the flavor of quulntness in her maids' millinery, she might choose the leghorn hat at the left, with an Insert of colored lac in Its brim. It h- -s a wide sash of moire ribbon about the crown wltb very excursion and nation with plain cloths. Color combi nations are very fine, but black and white are smartest of all. 'Class" Is written all over the sports suit of flannel Bhown here In black and white. Its straight skirt Is fin ished at the bottom with a broad band of white broadcloth which mukes an effective background for a narrower band of fancy braid, or cloth showing Is a cut work. The short cape-coa- t masterpiece of designing with a full straight back and front that nppenrs to be fastened to the back with round black buttons. There Is just enough of ornamentation in the bnnd set in around the shoulders. A white hot of straw brnld and fab ric, with black stltchery, white stock- - ' s wide-brimme- d r 1 i.' e n p g i ; V ,V well-define- d well-curle- d Millinery for Easter Brides. Ings and "bite shoes bring this faultless toilette to completeness. The sports dress with mulching cape Is a rival of the sports suit and equally successful. A handsome model Is shown made of gray kasha cloth, striped with red. The dress Is straight end ploln with a girdle of red bugles set at a very low waistline. Prospective Easter brides nre deeply concerned just now with the matter of their brldes-niuldmillinery and there is so a' long ends that slip through the brim and a branch showing foliage and young buds of the roe fallln,- over the brim at the back. P.ut If luT fancy leans toward something that reflects th fashions of tint hour she may select a smaller tint t straw braid, like that at the right. |
