Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-02-16
The MYTH Of ~. Valentine.

"V NA VA '"ss
Myth, tradition and romance have
thrown roseate veil of imagery about
the purely natural things Of life, ever
since the world was bespoken from
chaos. More especially have they been
interviewer about be religious beliefs
and customs Of all clines and ages.
For "A period they remtin II reality.
then come the learned lcouoc asts, and
with few sharp punctures OF their wise
pens, lo, the bubbles break al lose
themselves in the mlsts OF the past.
So has it been with the worlds first
beautiful allegory. The wondrons gar
den of Eden, according to their learned
edict, is only graceful Ch; ;is'ian myth
We take no issue with his wise fat
fortified rs it. 49, with indsputable facts
of scientific research and very nard
common sense.
Whether we are from protoplasm, via
that lively animal be monkey, or the
more dign I'D first accepted source, the
fifth rib Of Father Adam I'll hereby be
ing A Kind of side issue, AS it were of
the first lord Of crea'ion-small Is the
interest we take in the much noottd
question. al d we frank " admit We are
enough ont oe JOIN, with the sclenllf'
progress Of the age. to feel the pulse of
Inauguration still bound with its first
juvenile enthusiasm, at the exceed ng
grace, aud poetic pictures OF the worlds
first beautiful allegory, leaving to more
literal minds their satisfaction of the
muscu ar r-alislo which seems to be the
demaLd of the present age
A realism which to our out Of plumb
thinking (may be- is biting with Il
sharp and somewhat coarse tooth. int"
all The idylllc. ard many of The beanI
ful things of life. Even that much
rdculed episode. has bit Of Il com
mon sense side to ourselves inasmuch
as a force which could evolve from the
abyss Of nothing. world no complete
and perfect as this. might. had it so
wi.ed, have fashioned woman from
out Il mans RIB. We are even so he
logged in cur reaso"ing facilities as to
aver there is certain itness about The
affair. as Adam surely would have made
better ant' more loving spouse, there
being 80 much of self in the matter and
~o are all Il little prone to leaning III
that direction.
W. still like to imagine this big,
strong Adam, Waking from his first
sleep, which became his last repose.'
and looking with enraptured awe upon
this beautiful first mother of the human
race. That she was beautiful and phys
ically perfect is a ioregone conclusion /;
indeed We image the very animals that
marched into that wonderful ark--two
of kind were very perfect, being a
kind OF sample, as it were, of those to
come after.
This Eve, our frat mother, was not
trrighted with detects; no vain and
frivolous ioremo,her had curved her
spinal column with the weight Of su-
pclfluous druperles, and she could not
have been lover possessed AS one Of
our modern poets says of himself-wlth
nerves, el.e she would have hidden
herself behind the broad shoulders Of
Adam. leaving him to tussle with the
wrigglins serpent, thereby sparing him
the obIoquy. which has always c)ung to
him, of first tattler
Doubtless this golden haired woman,
Millions Eve, was very fair to look up
OH, and We Imagine that simple yet
grandest title-woman, with the pathet
ic significance of It's first syllable, for
much sorrow comes with her to the sex i,
formulated itself instinctively upon
Adams lips; not lady, she was the
flowing Of Il lst"t asr n'l day, when