Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1931 — Page 14

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STONE AGE MAN USED HARD DED, BRITAIN SHOWS Sleepers Had Mattresses of Plants, Animal Skin Canopies. By Science Service LONDON, March 20.—Evidence that our ancestors of the stone age really slept in stone beds has been obtained by Professor V. Gordon Chllde of the University of Edinburgh in his excavations at Skara Brae, a ruined village in the Orkney islands off Scotland. In a report to the British journal, Antiquity, Professor Childe describes the furniture of a bedsitting room, marvelously preserved, in one of the stone huts at Skara Brae. The beds, which stand against the wall of the stone hut, are oblong box-like inclosures with stone slabs for sides, held in place by stone wedges driven into the floor. The slabs at the head and foot are taller, like bedposts,' and perhaps were designed to support a canopy of skins, Professor Childe suggests. For a mattress, the sleeper probably had ferns or heather. Eating in bed seems to have been an old custom, judging by the gnawed bones found in the floors of the beds. Beads and other valuables were also found in them, showing that the mattress of a bed was a hiding place for treasures then, as today. "Members of the family used to sit by day on the edge of the bed s front partition-slab, which is often noticeably worn save at the ends where the ’bde-posts’ protected It,” Professor Childe stated. “Articles they were making or using are frequently to be met on the floor between this improvised seat and the fire.” Above each bed were recesses in the stone walls in the form of cupboard shelves. In these were kept personal belongings. The room also contained a stone cupboard with two tiers of shelves, a hearth in the

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center of the room, and several tanks sunk in the floor, apparently for keeping limpets fresh until they should be eaten. Nine huts were excavated. Furniture in all was similar, it was found. The village was abandoned precipitately, as a variety of valuable objects left in the huts testifies. Passageways in the houses were tiny, and speedy flight was attended with difficulties. Professor Childe found hundreds of beads and fine

amulets dropped and scattered at the narrowest point in one doorway and along the passage. WILD HOGS DISAPPEAR By United Press WINSLOW*Ark., Mitch 20.—Wild hogs, which at one time roamed the Ozark mountains in herds, are virtually extinct in this range. Except in isolated regions, these ferocious beasts, which would charge any one who crossed their paths, are never seen.

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INSTRUMENT TO AID IN FINDING, STOPfm NOISE Cathode Oscilloscope Also to Help Students Learn New Languages. By United Prese PITTSBURGH, March 20.—Language students and engineers studying the effects of noise on a city’s population will be benefited by a new invention, the cathode ray oscilloscope, according to O. S. Os-

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born, research engineer and builder of the instrument. The oscilloscope when attached to a microphone picks up sound waves and translates them on a ribbon of green light crossing a glass plate on the instrument. Students soon will be able to conquer, by means of the oscilloscope, the different languages in half the time it took them formerly. Professor H. S. Scriber, head of the Greek department at the University of Pittsburgh, said. In a demonstration before students of the school, Osborn showed the effects different noises have on the ribbon of green light. He snapped his fingers in front of the microphone and the green streak of light danced up and down. He hummed and the sustained sound drew long zig-zag waves. The new invention will be useful in detecting causes of noise and determining what parts of a particular machine makes the most noise, Osbom said.

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