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Show Oak Tombs Reveal "Modern Girl" Was Popular 'Way Back in the Bronze Age Danish flappers of 4,000 years ago liked to shock their elders as much as their sisters do today. And one little lady .'way back in the Bronze age even went so far as to wear short skirts. But she caught cold and died as a result. That is the interpretation that serious-minded archaeologists place upon their latest "find" at Egtved, Jutland, according to a Copenhagen correspondent in the Philadelphia Record. The girl's remains, together with her clothing, remarkably preserved, were found in a hollow oak tree trunk of the type Bronze age folk on Jutland's rocky shore used for tombs. They don't know her name, but they call her Olga, and they say she wasn't over twenty and must have been remarkably beautiful. Olga, it seems, had an oval face, a determined little chin, pearly teeth and a wealth of flaxen hair which swept back from her broad forehead. But she was different from all other oth-er women of her time. The others, probably because of their pride In the newly discovered craft of weaving, weav-ing, dressed in voluminous garments. gar-ments. Olga, however, rebelled. On her mother's primitive hand loom she wove a cloth of finely spun wool. Then, with needles of bone and bronze, she knitted a neat sweater. By plaiting hundreds of woolen cords, she fashioned a brief skirt so brief, in fact, that it came well above the knee. With earrings of bronze wire and the traditional plaque on a braided belt, she appeared not unlike the modern outdoor girl. But her revolutionary costume, it appears, was not suited to Jutland's bitter climate. Scientists think that may have caused her death at such an early a sc. |