Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-27


From, the Brooklyn Eogls
In the pamy days OF childhood we
were taught in nursery jingle and we
implicitly believed that little girls were
made of
"Suear and spice
And all that's NICE"
but, growing older, we learned to our dis
appointment that they were produced
from Adams rib; and when we asked
WHY woman was made OF that particular
,one. we were told it was because that
hone was the most crooked in Adams
bodv. 'Observe the result preached
lean RaYlin, in the beginning of the six
teenth century. "Man, composed of clay,
is silent and ponderous; but woman
lives evidence of her osseOus origin by
The rattle she keeps up. Move a sack of
earth and it makes no noise; touch a bag
of bones and you are deaiened with the
Glitter clatter." In medieval times the
learned did not spare women. Jean
Neyisau. professor OF law at Turin, who
died in 1910. is harder still on them in his
0Svlya Nuptals." Therein he auda-
ciously asserts that woman was formed
bv the Author of Good till the head had to
be made, and that was production of the
great enemy of mankind. 'Permisit
Deus illud facere daimOnio." But the
rabbis are equally unsparing. They
assert that when Eve had TO lie drawn
from the side of Adam she was not ex-
tracted by the head, lest she should be
vain; nor by the eyes, lest they should be
wantOu: nor by the mouth, lest she should
be given to little tattle; nor by The ears,
lest she should be inquisitive; nor by the
hands, lest she should be meddesOme;
nor by the feet, lest she should lie a CAD
about; nor by the heart, lest she should
bv Jealous; but she was drawn orth by
the side; yet, Notwithstanding these pro-
cautions, she has every fault so guarded
against, because, having been extracted
sideways, she was perverse. Another
rabbinical gloss on the text O Moses
asserts that Adam was created double;
that he and Eve were made backtO back
united at the shoulders, and that they
were severed with Ratchet. EnUbinus
saws that their bodies were united at the
side. AntOinette BOurignOn. that eX-
traordinary mystic of the seventeenth
century, had some strange visions of the
primeval man and the birth of Eve. The
body Of Adam, she says, was moe pure,
translucent and transparent than crystal,
entered and eXuded through tbs pores
The vessels were charged with liquors of
various COiOIb VI lubGHSG UIlllldlEN anu
transparency; some of these fluiCs were
water, milk, wine, fire, etc. Eve.y mo-
and as light and buoyant as air. In it
were vessels and streams of light, which
ton of Adams body produced iIetfable
barmOnies; every creation Obeyel him;
nothing could resist or injure hio. He
was taller than men of this time; his hair
was short, curled, and approaching to
black. He had little down on hislOwer
lip. In his stomach was a clear fluid,
like water in a crystal bowl, in which
Tiny eggs developed themselves lille bub-
bles in wine, as he glOwed with the ardOr
# divine charity, and when he strongly
desired that others should unite with
him in the work of praise, be deposited
some Of these eggs, which hatchel, and
from
ONE OF THEM EMERGED HIS COSsORT
EVE.
The inhabitants of Madagascar nave
strange myth touching the origin of wo-
man.~.They say that the first MAJ was
created of the dust of the earth and placed
in a garden where he was subject u none
81 the Slls which now atfilct mortality; he
wasalso free from all bodily appetite, and
thOugh surrounded by delicious fruit and
Umpid streams. he yet felt no deiire to
taste of the fruit or Quatf the water The
creator had, moreover, strictly forbidden
him either to eat or to drink. The great
enemy, however, came to him and printed
to him in glowing colOrs the sweetness of
the apple, the lusclousness of the date,
and the succulence of the orange. In
vain; the first man remembered the COM
mand laid upon him by his Maker. Then
the tend assumed the appearance Of an
efulgent spirit, and pretended tC be
messenger from heaven commanding him
to eat and drink. The man at once
obeyed. Shortly after pimple appeared
on his leg; the spot enlarged into tlmor,
which increased in size and caused HIM
considerable annoyance. At the end of
six months it burst and them emerged
from the limb a beautiful girl. The
Father of all living turned her thisway
and that way, sorely perpleXed and ulcer
tain whether to pitch her into the water
or give her to the pigs, when a mes
senger from heaven appeared and told
him to let her run about the garden Until
she was OF a manageable age, andthen
10 take her to himself as a wife. He
obeyed. He called her BahOuna, and she
became the mother of all races of men.
The interesting question as to thesub-
stance of which woman was made il one
on which the various cOsmOgOnits of
natiOns widely differ. Probably tn, dis
coverers of these cOsmOgonies were men,
for they seldom give to woman verJ dis
tinguished origin. But then the poet
makes il up to her. The woman loving
singer of the Gland of cakes" tells usthat
nature
"lier prentice han first tried on man
And then she made the lasses, OH"
Milton has done poor Eve justice in
lines which need no quotation. Pyma-
lion. says the classic story, which is really
Ph9nician myth OF creation, mab
woman OF marble or ivory, and Aplro-
dite, in answer TO his prayers endowed
the statue with life. We do not believe
it.
NO WOMAN WAS EVER MARBLE.
She may seem hard and cold, but she
only requires sturdy male voice to lid
her
Descend; he stone no more!
TO show that the marble appearance was
put on for the occasion, and that sheis,
aud ever was genuine palpitating flesh
ana blood. "Often," says OVID in lis
MetamorphOses," ''does PygmaliOn sp-
ply MS hands TO the work. One time be
addresses il in soft terms; at another De
urlngs 1t presents that are agreeableto
Ihaluens, as shells aud smooth pebbles,
anu little birds and flowers Of thousald
nues' and lilies and painted balls, and
sedIs 81 the Heliades that have distilld
rom the trees. He decks her limbs. TOD,
WIN clothing, and puts long necklace
On her neck. smooth pendants hang from
neT ears and boue from hap hraaat All