The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1873-03-14
Eminent Women.
ny THE FAT CONTRIBUTOR.

very first. She was related 30 the first
man, on the Adam side, although she
had deep cause to regret that she ever
left Adams side. Philosophers who
have probed deep into the subject con.
meet Ewes early career as a rib with the
female fondness of ribbon. Eve be
came Mrs. Adam, and they lived very
happily together for a time. There was
no other woman for her to he jealous Of
and her husband was Mt pestered with
dressmakers bills.
She was Mt tortured by discovering
love-letters from unknown females in
Adams coat.pockct, and Adam never
blew her up because buttons were MT
sewed on. Eve never saw fashion-book
or fashion-plate, and never wore CHG
mons or high-heeled shoes (she made a
slip, but she could MT make slipper;
and if there had been lots Of newspapers
printed, she would MT have known how
to make back numbers available. 1t
never occurred to her to 90 into the lee
ture field, and as for voting, she did Mt
know what it meant. If they were
going out to party, she did MT keep
Adam waiting for her to dress until he
was ready to Adam everything, and he
was never known to come home with an
other mans hat or overcoat on.
How Eve could have lived without
some other woman to gossip with, it is
hard to understand at this day, but she
did. Adam is supposed to have been
kept in a glow of continual happiness
by the reflection that he had MT any
mother in law hanging around, and
could Mt have.
Oh, but those were delightful days
when our first parents. in their innocence
and simplicity, wandered about Eden
Park, hand in hand, discussing the i'm
provements that might be made; here
AN avssue. there a promenade, here an
archway, and there tunnel for an efilu-
ent pipe.
There is little record as to how mother
Eve employed herself when not wander
ing in Eden. There was no sewing soci-
ETY. for her to be president of, there were
no clothes to be made up for the heather,
as there were very little heathon until
the settlement of New York City. She
could not play the piano, because she
had none. Had she possessed one of
those boons she would probably have
driven her husband out Of paradise with
out the intervention of the serpent. She
could Mt embroider, although her worsted
work was a success-she worsted the
whole human race. She could Mt receive
calls except when Adam called her, and
got no invitations out to tea. She was
totally ignorant of the delights of shop
ping, ard never attended matinee in
her life. When she went out to prone
made she never looked around to see what
other women had on.
There was some compensation for be-
ing the only woman in the world. Eve
was Mt bothered with "hired girl"
She did Mt know what it was to have II
servant in the kitchen. She was spared
the annoyance Of changing kitchen girls
every week, and there were no ''fellers"
hanging around the kitchen steps.
Everything seemed to 60 well with
Eve until the fruit season set in, and
then, well every child knows the story.
She was tempted into an apple-tree to
pluck some fruit that was nj quite ripe,
and fell. Adam fell, too--that is. he
fell-to and helped her to eat it, although,
with meanness somewhat characteristic
of his sex, he attempted to throw all the
blame on the woman when detected.
Too lazy to shake the tree himself, he
was ready enough to partake of the fruit
when brought to his hand.
After this .Jaur pas, Adam and Eve
We're obliged to take their respective
leaves of Eden. They were fg-leaves.
Eve had suddenly become possessed with
a love for dress, and from that early
period until the present that love has
increased among the sex until
now it amounts 10 veritable passion
with many of them. Eve founded
very extensive family. Besides the
Massachusetts Adams, the entire human
race may trace back TO Mr.. and Mrs.
Adam, il their traces are long enough.
We do MT learn that Eve cut up very
much after that affair in the garden. If
she ''raised Cain" il was because Cain
was tough and hearty. If he had been
a sickly child. perhaps she would Mt have
been able to raise him.
II is recorded that Adam reached the
good old age OF nine hundred and thirty
years before he died. but no mention is
made of Ewes age when she passed
away. The well-known antipathy to
telling her age which characterizes
women in all ages, and under every
cline, may perhaps account for this.
Eve has numerous namcsakes at the
present day, Christmas Eve being the
iavorite. New Years Eve is generally
welcomed. Then there is All-Hallow
Eve. You can buy her at the plaster OF
Paris shops, where she is made all hol-
low. To cut the subject short. there is
no human abode, be il cot or castle, pal