Show GENERAL INTEREST IN QUEER PEOPLE Monstrosities Can Always Command Attention Time The public interest in freaks freals of or nature which makes it still profitable profitable profitable profit profit- able to maintain circus cirrus sideshows where various malformed queerly distorted unfortunates are cue exhibited to gaping crowds Is an Interest of lon long standing says sn's the time Yin following article ar at tide lIcIe from the tile New York World Worl It goes oes back not only onty to tn the courts COUlts of ur med f medieval al kings where dwarfs and hunchbacks frequently furnished cruel amusement e to tl bored nobles and anel their ladies It is also to tn be beI found even before the Christian era ern I It has recently been demonstrated that this in insatiable curiosity concerning concerning con con- human beings of unusual shape coloring or 01 habits is of very ancient origin In n the tile quarterly q Journal Jour nal of the International School of Vedic and Milled filled Research it Is revealed revealed re re- re- re b by an expert expel San thai it the ancient inhabitants of India referred referred re re- re- re in one of or their early scriptures scriptures scrip scrip- tures hIre to such monstrosities as three three- eyed ced people one one-le one legged lcd mountaineers mountain mountain- and people with ears as large huge as pillows Dr E E. E Washburn Hopkins em eiK emri Ij ritus ri- ri hIS professor of Sanskrit and comparative com com- philology nt at Yale university university uni el sity who is isIce vice Ice president of th the American section of the International al School of at Vedic nu and A Allied III ell Research Re Ite- search points out In iii time tile article re referred referred referred to The Epic View ew of time the Earth that the stories about these queer people sometimes are based on facts while others are travelers tales distorted The epic referred to the thc wa was probably composed about 00 OO B. B C C. but Is made up UJ of stories that had been handed down from even older times ta tn menus means the great reat Will war of the DIm Eln- ratas the people of or India which took tool place probably In time the Twelfth cen cen- century century tur tury B. B C. C but the time epic contains in its one hundred thousand stanzas much material lal which Is not directly connected with the lime great war a n mere eighteen days days' battle hottIe The epic Is really an un enc dia of oC Information presenting the philosophic social and ethical Ideas of ancient In India in The colorful applied to the various adOll tribes de dc described scribed In the course of or the long rambling story reveal to us the fact Car I that the ancients were just as much Interested In freaks of oC nature n ns as the thc average circus circus- going circus oin American I Is Is today One is reminded of the bl big lipped big lipped l women from Africa featured in a i great circus when one reads of the who use their ears as coverings It might be bc supposed supposed sup sup- supposed posed that this is a reference to a tribe whose ears were naturally very en large largo but hut Professor Hopkins draws rn ws our attention to the fact that the large eared folk foll mentioned in the time old ohl epiC have evidently e survived to our own guy day lie Ilo sa says I 1 myself saw near Madura Ia ura some Individuals with ears so distended by heavy can earrings Ings s that an English official with witha me exclaimed Wh Why the they might use their ears as pill pill- lows low Time The three mentioned three eyed people in the epic mi might ht seem to give he sonic some Credibility e to the thEor theory that the so- so o pineal gland in the time human brain is the remnant of what once one was a third eye ec Certain reptiles do have the structure of an nn eye eJe In the pineal glan gland But Professor ProCessor Hop Hop- kins suggests that the third c eye e of or these three eyed folk may mI have beena been beena a sectarian n forehead mark marl Time The mark murk of Cain referred to In Hi th Bible mule has been supposed by hy some to have been a tribal marl mark tattooed or burned on the time forehead Such a I mark on the thc men mentioned In the epic pic may easily have been in the shape of a glaring eye in the center of the forehead to Inspire terror in n j their enemies Just lust a as ns the American j jIn In Indians S painted themselves grotesquely gro gro- grotesquely ro i before going Into battle |