, 1890-04-11
WOMAN'S NEW POSITION.
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES 1T MAKE IN
HER POSITION TOWARD MANKlNof
Woman the Last and Highest Achieve
msnt of Creation-.LnIth and Her D1ugh-
tsr-woman Ss Man Regards Her and
Woman as She Means to he.

JIM 1 SUI
copyright, 1901
The fy on the coach wheel said, How
fast we do travell And just about as
much as the fly regulated the speed of
the coach. 50 much do we control and
regulate the speed Of the world.
OF course ever so many Of us imagine
ourselves the deus er mGChtHd, and fancy
that il we were eliminated from the af-
fair, the coach must either stop or be
shunted of the crown OF the highway
where we keep it. But then, others.
looking at the matter more philosophic-
ally, perceive that through the few thou
sands of years Of which alone we know
anything at all the world has gone me-
thodically on, carrying u some system
of which we know very little indeed, the
earth producing her treasures, such rs
gold. iron, coal, water, oil, just at the
time the previous supply Of material is
spent, and not at all in answer to mans
demand oil greed.
We see, too, how the race of man has
gradually developed from perhaps the
baboon, perhaps only the clay ]devouring
savage, 10 its present condition, which,
let us most dcvOutly hope, is not its final
lfIltlLlons anu W. Ettt NiiNll IN JUST
now what we want to consider, the curl
Gus development OF woman's plnccin the
scale of existence, and of her relation
toward man. Taking for a moment the
biblical account OF the creation, we per
ccive that it proceeded. perhaps by evo-
luton. perhaps otherwise, from the low
est forms to the highest, man coming
after the beasts, and woman after man,
thus placing her ut the crown and sum
nit OF creation.
Perhaps it sounds a little arrogant for
a woman TO say hat this eminence is act
ually woman's proper position, but /
think few mel will deny that "a perfect
woman nobly planned Ia the highest
work Of creative power from more than
n point of view, il not from all; and
when one considers the development Of
woman in these latter years. and per
ceives that the Progress Of that devel-
opment is rather accelerating than di-
FINISHING, one cliugs closer b. the coach
wheel, and wonders where in life ID Is
taking us tol
or course we all know that woman has
not always stood Mt the head Of creation.
That proud cIuincnce has hitherto been
claimed hy man, WHO assumed to be lord
not only Of creation, but Of woman also.
and woman has more or less mockly and
more or less consistently allowed the
claim.
There Is a pretty legend in the Talmud
that when Adam was created a woman
was also made. and named Lilith: she
was Of such beauty, grace and charm rs
has never since hcrn seen upon the earth,
and being independently created. had as
much power and regnant authority as
her mate. The consequence. so the Tai
mud says. was more than a little I'm
plea antnefs in tho parldisiacal house
bold. Adam laid down tue law, and
Lilith scrrnriy capped II with another,
which she claimed was just a. valid rs
his; aud wc can we'll imagine that lii.
ith's tongue and Wit were Just as much
more nimhlc thun Adams as yours. dear,
are than your husbands today,
The consequence was that Adam. find
ing his life not worth the living. appealed
to Allah for relief, and with better result
Than many husbands obtain nowadays.
for IL was then that the deep sleep came
upon him, and the rib extracted from
his side was fashioned into "A woman,
who. being derived from man, was sub.
jcct and obcdicnt unto him, and, n,
Adam declared, was the helpmcet he had
failed TO find in Lilith.
That young woman disguised with
the introduction of II rival. went away
and set up a paradise of her own, ant
from her m~iraculously sprung n race 81
GLORIOUS but rcbellious beings, n sort oi
afrits or Jim, who ever since hav,
claimed the earth for their own and con
stAutly amused themselves with tempt
ing and domincering Owe the sons al
Eve and thwartinE and annoying lcD
daughters.
And the reason | nave told this loul
story Just here is because | am dead sur,
that the daughters of Lilith, like tn,
wandering tribes Of Israel, have strayc,
across tho sea, and are claiming the New
World as their especial domain.
This accounts for a great deal beside
the milk in the %cocoanut; it %ccoun 70
the. aggressive and independent stan,
assumed by woman during the last hal
Of this century; It accounts for the min
glcd admiration and indignation witt
which men regard her new demands; i
accounts, above all, for the disagreeabl
things the women who don't wan
TO vote say about those who dc
it ia the old warfare Of the daugh
tiers OF Eve against the daughters o
Lilith, and with a little considerable
one may divide all the women Of one
acquaintance into three classcs-Liliths
Ewes, and II third estate SO mixed Ia thci
heredity that they side with first one
and then the other, and then with both
and then with neither OF the more posiliv
schools of thought me purpose. ] an
afraid l am n Lilith, for 1 never hav
been able to train myself into that NEE.
and mild admiration of man aS a muste
thatEve and her daughters ~ sweet.
exhibit, and the future Of woman seem
to me to largely embrace the future o
the world and Of mankind.
So long as Iilith and her daughters re
manned in their eastern sulitudcs N
Stanley has yet explored, the daughter
of Eve occupied the stage of the world
drama, and both history and tradition
show the part they played.
Tho slaves sometimes of MANS passion
sometimes OF his Incidence, they toile,
for their savage lords, performing menia
labor while he hunted or fought: pre-
pared his food and ate the morsels toSse,
to them over his shoulder; bore children
vet on pain Of death must not punish
son; lived in less honor Than n horse o