Show 10 THE OGDEN ST STANDARD EXAMINER THURSDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 3 1927 THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE The Story of Light Sketches by Bessey Synopsis by Bracher i i When men got used to makin fires with which to How do you think thin we first got fire and light Nobody cook their food and to keep them themselves elves warm at really knows but jt t. t IS is supposed that men men ages and Men Mei learned that by fire from flint they found that certain resins or from night trees gums ages ago first found that sti ks would burn if dropped came a long tIme after would burn with rubbin a bright flame two pieces of and last longer than into some hole where melted lava from from a volcano lay wood fo together ther Phard hard and the rubbing of wood for wood alone They would melt the resin and dip twigs boiling Or they may Iray have seen trees catch fire through during thousands of into anto it rapidly they could cause thousands and so make torches y wh i h would serve to light being struck by lightning years men en did not use t me e placeS called they home To the sticks Be s a NU Th e of f tM Pub rn K 2 3 to catch fire ir io n. n 3 11 rIp n Tho enl doty |