Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-01-30

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I've thought and pondered much on this
one thing.
Why SD much license to one sex is given /:
l cannot understand why slave or king,
Or any potentate in earth or heaven
Should have more license on account Of sex.
(Which is undoubtedly thing of chancc)
Yet to this day this wron doth truly vex
Some noble souls that seek deliverance.
But can see {tho' slow in my short life
A better states been gained tl,ro' furious
strife.
/ And what is very odd. religions. too,
Are masculine. AS any one can see
By reading all the many Bibles through.
And modern books and ancient history !;
To me they prove conelusivcly
TO be conceptions from the brain OF man.
And for his benefit exclusively.
The female element. behind the van.
Has had to crawl thro' toll and strife,
Just AS is seen to-day in savage life.
The great creative force is called lie.
Tho Nature contradicts it everywhere.
In budding blossom and .he fruitful tree,
The female elements are those that bear.
No matter what the priests orpr"phets say.
Indian. Budfa, or the great Nahomet,
Or the Apostles teachings to obey:
The truth for all they say is truthful yet,
There's no distinction made by honest
nature
When she brings forth a son or new
daughter.
I've wandered from my tale-thc thread
was lost,
And was switched aside some stanzas
back.
But now l must return tho at my cost
10 find my thread upon my former track.
The Queen, 50 much amused to hear the
Chief
Talk OF his masters poverty Of wife.
Nude up her mind she'd send to his relief
A virgin Bride TO cheer his lonely life.
Anon" '..r household was a sable lass.
Who t. .n ogress anywhere would pass.
She'd lips like two potatoes side by side.
And long. protruding teeth Ike lions
claw,
jaw;
Her frame was fixt and stiff like oallen
plank;
She'd spindle legs. that looked like stills
of wood:
Her arm was like grinlstonc's wooden
crank;
Her heels stuck out behind, three inches
good:
And the good Queen made up her mind to
All these attractions to the King, her friend
The ladies of the Queen had lots of sport q
In making up the tousseau O. the BRIDE
think that is the word they Use at cert {
And by the upper tcndom, tar and wide
t means the lighter garments. am told.
Which are of much importance at such I
time: l.
And you, my gentle friends, must not
scOld, s
/ only run this way to hunt rhyme II
Ter gown and pants Of yellow silk were +
made,
Which. with her ebon skin, was prime II
shade.
hey placed gold rings on fingers and on s.
toes p
And in her cars--and oh. what ears they St
were!- - Il
he had already one in her fiat nose; a
Her feet, no shoes would fit, had to be 81
bare. II
t last, rugged out in yellow silk and red. p
She Was declared to be noble prize, al
nd suitable tor the old dOtar;!'s bed. III
If he would only think SO and be wise: 81
ut men, tic said. who are advanced in al
life AZ
re most fastidiOus in the choice of wife. ci
he embassy at length was homeward in
bound "
With bride and presents and letter kind. O,
herein the Queen did show her judgment Ia
sound. ST
And her great superiority of mind. le
lc said that she was proud of the great hs
honor m
Intended for her child. the Princess Zate.
Being SO young she cannot take upon her. We
For many years to come, the marital RI
state. on
1t in her place I've sent the Princess Juba, es
lild of Numbo Jumbo of Ethiopia tn
TO BE CONTINUED ui
Satisfied.