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While drinking from animal dishes, the Phrygian child may have worn diapers of a sort. Bronze safety pins found in the tomb suggest that children's underpinnings have not changed in 2,600 years...
...Asia Minor up to the yth century B.C. Dr. Rodney S. Young, leader of the dig, tells how an earthen mound near Gordium was probed with an oil-well pilot drill. Off to one side, presumably to foil grave robbers not equipped with modern scientific gadgets, was the tomb of a high-born Phrygian child who died about 2,600 years ago. The remains of five baby teeth were sifted out of the dust, and a bronze belt proved just long enough to fit a child about four years...
...packed in a big bronze kettle were toys that modern children would appreciate: wooden horses, one of them winged, a lion fighting a bull, a yoked ox. Perhaps the Phrygian child had been a "feeding problem" and had to be cajoled into eating his meals. At any rate, his tomb was furnished with special dishes for mealtime entertainment. One pitcher was like a goat's head with the horns for handles. Other vessels were modeled after geese, stags or rams...
Spry old (77) Lord Beveridge, whose widely debated report of 1942 set Britain firmly on the path of womb-to-tomb social security, bounced briefly back into the limelight to complain to his fellow Liberals that the path to his own tomb is studded with inflationary obstacles these days. After retiring from his last government job, Beveridge had felt secure about having enough gold for his golden years: "I was able to take with me for superannuation enough pounds to feel fairly happy for my future. Now each of those pounds is worth six shillings, eight pence. Our plans...
Gerald's own, a long-ago, long-drawn-out liaison with the alcoholic widow of that same irreverent Stokesay who tampered with the tomb at Melpham...