Middletown transcript., 1870-03-05
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A MONUMENT TO MOTHER EVE.

MONUMENT TO MOTHER EVE.
Natalie" feminine quill-driver fo
the press, says the Golden City, havin,
read that monument to Adam is in con
temptation, and that each member of th,
human family is expected to contribute
one cent towards raising it, wants to know
what Adam did for the race more than
Eve, that monument should be erected
to him and none to her. Why is it, in
deed, asks Natalie" +" that monuments arc
always erected to men, while none are
erected to women? This is just what We
would like to know; and if the men really
intend to do monumental honor to the
Father of the human family, we would ad
wise the women to pitch in with all their
might and raise one to the Mother there
of-such a pile as shall "overtop old
Pelion, or the skyish head of blue Olym-
pus"-or,
----"' till Eres monument,
| Singeing IFS top against the burning zone,
| Make 1aam's like wart.'
That's exactly what we should go in for
did we belong to the " other sex" 1t is
proper to state, however, that " Natalie "
does not object to the proposed monument
to Adam. She simply wants justice done
to Eve, or any other woman who has
made a name for herself Have there
not been just as many good and wise wo-
men as there have been good and wise
men 7" asks the champion of the weaker
sex. q" Have there not been plenty of
heroines among the sex; and are not he
Il
heroes? But what Frenchman ever
thought of erecting monument to Char
lotte Corday? or what Spaniard to the
Maid of Saragossa, who man'd-or as one
of her admirers quantity says, woman'd
the artillery of the fortress of old
Spain d? What American has ever dream
ed of honoring with a statue our own rev.
olutionary heroine Moll Pitcher? AS yet
America has not erected a monument to
Christopher Columbus-but no doubt
Christopher's time will come-but what
man will think of honoring in like man
nor Queen Isabella-and without Isabel
las aid what would Christopher have ever
accomplished Would there have been
any America or any Americans to erect
monuments to anybody? But, as Mr..
Billings would say, this is prize conun-
drum, and we give it up. We will re-
turn to the battlefield and the hospital,
to say that though women have frequently
distinguished themselves in both places,
that no man has ever considered her sacri-
fees of enough value to merit their per-
petuation in marble. But it is well known
that though men are very fond of playing
the part of the hero, that they have no
fancy for heroines, and this may be the
reason why there have never been any
monuments erected to them. But there
are women who are not beroines-or pub
lie ones-who have no capacity for any
particular line of duty, outside of the do
nestle or social circle, where they shine
as wives and mothers, to whom, in the
words of writer on the subject, whole
army Of saints and sageS have ascribed
whatever was best and glorious in their
lives, This being the case, why are all
the monuments erected to the Saints and
Sages, and none to the women who brought
them into the world, and who devoted
their lives to making them what they
were We see statues of George WASH
ington, but no man ever thought of erect
ing monument to George Washing
toms mother, Napoleon's reply to Ma
dame de Stael, when the great authoress
asked him: Who is the greatest woman
in France" is we'll known. Madame"
said he, it is the woman who gives
France the most soldiers" Why don't
somebody act upon the idea, and if we
can't do any better, erect monument to
the woman who, when found, will, accord
ing to the great Emperor's idea, be the
greatest woman living. In short we want
to see monument erected to a woman,
and if numerous progeny can entitle
woman to the honor, Mother Ewes chance
is a good. AS we have said, we have no
no objections to the proposed monument to
Adam, but we might as well say here that
we don't intend to contribute the required
cent towards its erection without the same
honor is maid to Eve