His belief that woman’s home-mak-ing instinct had been one of the greatest forces making for human progress was expressed by Dr R. A. Millikan, the celebrated physicist, in a lecture at Auckland University College. The beginning of the process, he said, had been correctly dated by Kipling from when the cave woman first hung a wild horse’s skin over the cave doorway and invited her husband to wipe' his feet before entering. Dr Millikan added that four-sevenths of man’s staple food plants were the descendants of wild grasses and tubers collected and cultivated by the American Indian squaw thousands of years ago.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1939, Page 10
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