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Show Survived Despite Lack of Hygienic Knowledge Considering how little primitive man knew about hygiene, he managed to keep living, didn't he? It is thi3 monumental mon-umental fact that fortifies our belief In an overseeing and omnipresent Providence. Provi-dence. Something must have preserved pre-served man in the midst of his ignorance ignor-ance and comparative helplessness. He died of his diseases, but somehow enough adults survived to carry on the race and increase it. One has only to read Doctor Clen-denning's Clen-denning's eye-opening and mouth-opening (for the doctor is a humorist) article ar-ticle in the Forum to learn that ancient an-cient man, from the beginning, was full of physical faultlness. His disinterred dis-interred bones show it; and many of the Egyptian mummies bear the marks of rheumatism. The ills of bad teeth resulted in the same maladies they do now and Doctor Clendenning observes ob-serves that at least one exalted Egyptian suffered from blackheads. Whether he employed sorcery or a face cream cannot now be determined, but either was futile. Early man did not live long, but he "lived dangerously," as Nietszche invites in-vites us to do. Whatever ailment he contracted, quickly killed him. Still the race "muddled through." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. |