| Show C J Jr r J l J h 0 1 m 7 I W Ia a i vo M v Man NOT NOl the fh T ht HiD w I J Why y Science Now Believes That Thai He lie Did to w l L andL ax 4 f 6 r loot Habitually Beat His Wife and cp K I fJ Drag Her About by the Hair but Was tw-li tw a Kind and Generous jAA C Husband and in Many Other Ways a Pretty M r Decent Sort I of Person Rr 4 t How prehistoric man is believed to have learned to draw by tracing the outlines of the shadows east on a rock r popular opinion long has been THE that prehistoric man Was vas the most heartless unfeeling ol ot the the sort of Cl creature that did not hesi hest- hesitate tate tote to club into submission to his cruel will his wife or any other woman oman Our most picture of this re- re remote remote re remote mote ancestor of ours was as thought to be one that showed sho him seizing some terri tern terrified t fied fled woman by the hair and dragging her off oS to his cave We called prehistoric man a cave man and that name has become a synonym for all that is brutal and most at yan yari- yari vari variance ance ante with modern standards of ot behavior The man who abuses his wife is said to employ cave man methods Anyone Any one who ignores the decencies of life is denounced as a cave man But now science aSI as f its knowledge knowledge of tt prehistoric man grows grOs grow grO s larger and larger v is beginning to think that we e have been been a doing him a serious injustice bce It is be- be being jC bc-jC ing mg found out that there is no real ba basis l ls for the tile belief that he maltreated womankind woman woman- j kind and behaved ed in other ways was so better than a beast y 1 On the contrary evidence is ing mg ing to show that in spite of the few ad- ad advantages ad advantages vantages he ho had and the hard struggle he had to make for existence he was vas wason on the whole a pretty decent sort of one chap one we ought to feel proud to claim for an ancestor He Ha is often compared with modern savages but even cven the resemblance he shoos sho s to them does not pro prove probe e him the fhe brute he has been pictured Of course the wife or wives of the Bushmen and other savages have to work hard and undergo man many hardships but so do their husbands and their sons On the other hand in some savage ago tribes the women dominate demanding special consideration and refusing to submit to any kind of brutality In many tribes the women select their mates and the children are called after their mothers not their fathers There are still some tribes in which the woman has several husbands and treats all of them equally badly Even the savage tribes In which the themen themen men are chiefs usually treat women omen with at least ordinary humanity esteeming them valuable property for which they hale ha had to pay several cows or other valuable consideration Prehistoric man in Europe at len least t nas as climbing the the- ladder of Cl side by side with Ith his wife and it would ha e lia e been strange indeed had he not treated her decently especially as lie he must have recognized her valuable aid and considered her worth as the mother of his children In fact we wo have many proofs that woman actually was worshiped at a very 1 early stage in m human existence Many small feminine femmine figures have been brought to light carved from stone and md 1 or I which indicate to the experts that the they were idols of the men and that hel heie wo we have havo the very loery earliest types of Venus or goddess of love Men who worship v women omen are not apt to treat them brutally for tor especially is it the case in primitive e society that al-a al there al al- al always ways is an association of fear with wor wor- wor worship wor-jj wor ship Early man therefore did not dare to treat woman oman brutally for fear the woman god would avenge the harm haim done her daughter Even Een if j prehistoric man was as only a aH better than the lower animals all the less should we expect him to treat bethe woman brutally If he did he would b bo be bof o f the exception in the animal world The Th e V mile male lion bon protects the lioness the bull but 1 guards and protects his herd of cows cow The ape apa mates permanently and fights fight s not with but for his mate The ram ra m fights off other rams but attacks an ani any Y i f foe of his ewes es guarding them with his life If the first men were ere near to the a ss e map be sure that they w ei a anything but cruel to then h r s sr r adz x tl r fy t te r xa d wJ M y y rA i ir r 2 6 y e But they were many grades above the ui n Y d animals alien they lived m caves Not 4 tr r Y r 1 only did the cave provide a shelter gf against the and the wild beast but it soon became much that we calla r k d A sr i vl home It had not merely the comforts of heat and food but with the large j i C fSr r z w a 8 amount of leisure r at his command e man soon be- be became came an artist dee orating the walls of I the caverns with pictures taken from his daily life I IE E hunt hunt- I ew a see ry i- i iy y I ing scenes and man pictures of fie women Y 1 4 r r f r cs s similar to tofie care care- caret t rs a iii roL 4 of them but r ings f r Yla t w Yi a i n never is there one t w i y w s a man beat beat- i 2 A Ja x rR r Y if Ta 9 9 f d 1 y s 3 r Y Y 4 rs mg a woman or r r s r 2 c J Jf rya r catching her by the f Rl s s 's h r b hair to pull her to iss 5 M ts his home That kind I of picture science is beginning to think Q 4 a 3 W A l I t trY rY l 1 l is a pure i I as p AT air x n nw w rid ridi i rr s sis of the modem n rm h Ew b Art is the minor i i of life and the draw draw- fa fai i Contents Content's very interesting painting of life ink m s of the cave a i r 7 N f for or prehistoric mans man's lake dwelling taws when he had f Inca prose that they y y not progressed far enough toward civilization to thought it worth A w b wI is s Y 9 tin tins s i Q ia ia a a m tr r have lost any of the worshipful lave and admira while upon the to chronicle walls of lion for womankind which he knew as a cave man m w 1 in i t te rf etl their e tl underground homes all they could I i that happened to torp rp W life They have pic 4 t Lured battles be- be f I r men and they t r s a r rr l dj rb K b show how the men of that age slew the a Ms H was xe K set U Ull ana acer out Dut never is there any The cave mans man's wife may have laboriously dug out which choice sheU sh for him to devour as shown in this could by any chance painting by F Corman but science thinks she did it be bo interpreted as willingly and not bec because use she feared a beating the abuse ofa of a wom- wom an by a man It is an error in psychology to attribute to the cave man the bl brutal brutal- brutality ity Ity with Ith which he is glibly debited We have no scientific J for trans trans- transferring transferring transferring ferring the vices and of our boasted civilization to the untutored man manof manof manof of prehistoric ages We Ye know that in our own time and generation men III aie e often brutal to women Made Cl crazy azy strong think dunk dl mk or drugs some males unworthy un- un unworthy un unworthy worthy of the name man do beat belt their vises or the onen so nen who serve them esen en to death The modern modem Apache of the slums of Pans Palls London or or r New loik is usually brutal to his womankind but that is 15 the result psychologists tell us of pen perversion ErSlOn of the degeneration of the humanity which should have been In these men We insult the beast by by speaking of these men as bestial for no animal does what the they do to the tile female The very fact that they maltreat women as they do O is 15 at least a fact in t of the suggestion that the like beast cave case man was not bl Cruelty is a D perversion of the moral sense A child may be innocently cruel thoughtlessly mischievous when he ties bes besa tiesa a tin can to a n dogs dog's tail tall but only a high highly ly Iy developed intellect can be deliberately cruel especially to one who aho ho serves senes and loses loes him It is notorious that a woman oman who has become attached to one of our modern modem criminals will go to any length to sel serve seive ve him even evin selling herself and bringing him the pay for her dishonor dishonor- dishonor only to be beaten and abused This type of Apache is brutal because he lacks imagination does not for fer a momen moment stop to consider the feelings of the woman oman deems it manly to show his brutality lacks laeh all reverence for any any- anything anything thing even for womanhood All this was as impossible for the cave caveman caveman caveman man Heas He was as the natural man who ate drank drankwater water ater slept made a home and 1 cd a as did tho the other ani- ani animals ani am animals mals aroun around him Buthen But when hen he began to think he lie found that woman oman was an essential element in this life She Slie aided him hini in m pas passing mg many ninny Idle hours bours she kept the cave cooked his food made his Ins garments out of the skins of the anneals animals he had killed and she It was as who reared his children His Ills first step tep ri 11 1 religion after that of fear of the power po of the storm and lightning was as reverence for woman as the source of human life What more natural than that he be should learn to honor woman woman- womanhood womanhood hood and carve the images of woman in which Inch he be emphasized her power all as giver life giver and source of beauty as well as existence Not one of the primitive religions ot of is without its goddesses In Egypt Babylonia Greece and Rome Borne as asell aswell aswell well ell as us the Scandinavian cults the tha wor ivor J 1 p g ti I V 1 t Cave painting of ofa a Nis huntsman on the ir 11 right disguised as lf one of toe the curious t 4 d ostric ostrich birds he 1 ship of woman oman was W the most important dart part art of the faith faithA faithA faithA A statuette It was the natural found mone in m one first step and se e of prehistoric may be sure that man mans man's s cave primeval man took homes this step and cher cher- cherished cher- cher cherished cherished this ideal for forIt forit forit It is proved by the discovery of many female figures in almost every spot in- in inhabited in inhabited habited by early man Where you have worship even oven though the actual reverence be not always trans trans- tran transferred transferred from flom fi om tho the goddess to the woman something of the respect WIll naturally cling to the minds of men menThe The religious faith of the man of the Stone Age Ago must have made him luni afraid to strike the tho woman even if ha he had wished to do so The statuettes of ot women coming down downto downto downto to us from the older Stone Age Ago are rude rudo indeed yet et they indicate very ery clearly the purpose of ot the figures Little atten atten- attention attention tion was as paid to the face the features being hardly Indicated but the body vv was as 1 most carefully defined Especially were ere the breasts and torsos carved out to im- im im i press theor the oris wor- wor is pursuing pursuing with the idea of that fruItfulness fruitfulness that heleas heie hele was as the source of human l life le e Going back as far as us those these sculptures do they are most mos mo t convincing proofs of the reverence paid paid to womanhood by primitive man They form a strong argument against his having ha displayed persistent brutality toward to women omen for forbe forlie he be could not worship and destroy at the same time tune The question has been raised whether in the Stone Age it was not the women omen who were ere the heads head of the famIlies 1 ome authorities believe that in primi primi- primitive primitive primitive tive times polyandry pol andry as it is called or the having of several husbands was as the common practice This Tills persists b in some SOllIe savage lands even day evento-day today day In parts of Tibet for instance among the a woman marries not only a husband but all his brothers at the tho same time Other reasons for believing that cn wom- wom women en were v viell ell treated by prehistoric men menI I are found in the important part semen omen took in primitive life Wo We may be sure that the women who helped in bringing mi An artistic ic cavo cave rk mans mains m sculptured head heady ofa of a horse bore in the tho carcass carCas of the slain animal ho did the cooking who ho probably invented the tho needle and who ho still in hn pre pre- pre historic prehistoric times made a Spin Spin- wheel spinning wheel ning-wheel anda and a 11 loom had brains enough to PI her from brutality I and to insist upon her rights I If t f Man may be the tho stronger physically sex physical physical- ph I II I ly Iy but womans woman's hold upon him rum is as asi i f strong as his need of her In primitive primitivo times living fn en man caves roan needed CT woman oman even en more than he do does s to day to-day so BO he had to treat her properly to secure and retain her sen services ices The al alman man and eaily man was most natural is never neer a ruffian He may be maybe unmoral moral un undeveloped hohas hehns morall morally but ho he civilized has hns no vices ices in the sense that that the civil civil- man has He Ile undoubtedly fou fought ht with ith other men for the tho possession of a woman oman as he would for desired any other de- de de sired object but it is hardly possible that he fought with mth the tha woman or man handled manhandled her Only after men became civilized and began to develop drunkenness such vices IC S as drunken ness did they begin to maltreat the tho weaker eaker woman Yoman Tho cave woman needed the cave man and ande we vve be may sure she was vas todo willing to do her share of the work cork and the cave caveman man recognizing her value going soon so far fat as to worship hei hel as the source of human life did not dare to abuse or maltreat her even if he had wished uti to- to tol l is very ery doubtful |
