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Page 13
And yet, when we speak of "historic" and "prehistoric" times, we never
think of all these races; they do not count among the so-called
"culture-races," because they have produced no civilization of their
own, have done nothing to advance the work of the world, added nothing
to its treasury; in short, they have not helped to make history.
Just one word more about these prehistoric ages and the memorials they
have left of themselves. No matter how various the stages of human
culture which these latter betray, one feature is common to all, back to
the most primitive feasting-places of the cave-dwellers; it is--the
knowledge and use of fire. Yet there most certainly was a time when men
had not yet learned to produce and to handle this marvellous force of
nature, their most helpful friend and most destructive foe. Can we
picture to ourselves _how_ miserable and degraded, _how_ distressingly
like that of other forest animals must have then been the condition of
those who yet were the fathers of the coming human race? Hardly. Our
imagination itself stands still, helpless and puzzled, before a state of
things so remote, so utterly beyond our power to realize and compare.
INVENTION AND DISCOVERY.
COAT HANGER.--An inventor in Boston has just perfected an excellent
coat-hanger.
At the first glance it looks like the ordinary hangers we have been
using for so many years, but this invention obviates the one objection
which attaches to all the other hangers we have come across--it adapts
itself to the size of the place in which it is to be used.
[Illustration: Hanger]
Those who live in small houses or apartments with meagre cupboard-room
know that the old hanger is out of the question for them, two coats or
waists taking up the entire length of the wardrobe.
The new hanger is adjustable. Its arms work on a spring. It can stretch
them out to the fullest extent where space is no object, but when used
in a cupboard where every inch counts, the accommodating arms will fold
together, and taking one sleeve of the coat or waist on each arm, lay
them together in the same position they would be in if folded in a
drawer. It then hangs in precisely the same manner as the usual hanger,
but with this difference, that it occupies but half the space.
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