The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-17
ga1iy - eagle
". NJ. MURDOCR. Editor.
THAT vExED WOMAN QUESTION.


THAT vEXED WOMAN QUESTION
In replying to a rejoinder from LADY
correspondent who, elsewhere, thi!
morning, takes issue with an editoria
review of Miss Bisland's estimate Of
the "Vexed Woman Question" as lately
appearing in the Eagle, we shall have
recourse to the Bible. Not that we are
without ideas or convictions Of our own
on the woman subjecb but because
with the average woman the Bible goes
a great deal further than the utterances
of the average editor.
The expression which covers more Of
this woman question than any other
in the Bible as it covers most of all
there is in this world, or in this life,
was wrung from an old Arab sheik,
who in sore afliction ran a ranch in the
land of Ur, and whose name was Job.
This man Jobs talk has the ring Of in
SEPARATION in it, and not a little Of hu-
man experience, as well as Of divine
wisdom. This man, who seems to have
been sorer over his wife's advice and
his friends gratuitous palaver than
from his boils, finally broke out with
this text:
Man born Of woman is Of few days
and full of trouble"
We do not now recall ever having
read Of but one man that wasn't so
born, and he was fuller of trouble than
anybody. The fact is, he wasn't born
at all, but a woman was at the bottom
Of his troubles, all the same. Some peo-
pie hold that his troubles began when
he Weakened up one fine morning from
a deep sleep Of peace to find woman
in the case. Others are convinced that
his troubles dated from the hour this
alluring piece Of femininity tempted
him more than he could stand. Still
others assert that everything was Sc
rene until Eve got stuck on fashion ana
sailed out with a panier of fig leaves.
But a careful study of the context
makes it plain to our mind that this
man first realized his fix, and that
which Job, later on, tried to elucidate,
when he heard the voice of the AL
mighty calling out: Adam! where art
thou?" Adam was nowhere. He was
gone on the "only woman in the world"
And so his sons, Systematically, ever
since, have, on discovering the only
woman in the world" made a mess Of
it. Adam himself quit gardening and
took up the tailor trade, and his male
descendants have been paying millin-
cry bills ever since. The interrogatory
salutation of the proprietor Of Para
disc itself shows the wide difference
between the human and the divine way
of doing things. Our readers would
have unanimously hollered for Eve,
convinced from experience that the wo-
man once located the man they were
after wouldn't be very far away.
Our text seems to have to do with
man" But a closer inspection VIII
show that its central hinge is woman;
who links the imam" at its beginning
with the trouble" at the end. That
philosophical old victim of boils, and
of experience with a woman who tried
to persuade him to commit hari-kari,
knew that there was no way of linking |
IMAM" with trouble" other than mix
ing woman" up in it.
Man born of woman is of few days |
and full of trouble," That text is so
full of meat, so nearly comprehends all !
of human experience, that to appreciate |
its heights and depths. and all around |
reach. it must be read three times con-
secutively, alternately emphasizing |
man." woman" and trouble" But |
emphasize il as you may, read it up or
down, backwards or forwards, there is |
no eliminating its central figure. and /
the cause of all its terminal trouble. |
woman. Miss Bizland may imagine |
that she has fixed the responsibility /
for the advanced woman, but he who |
had measured the orbs of Orien and |
demonstrated the impossibility Of land |
ing a hippopotamus with a fish hook. |
was on to the advanced woman and /
her progeny almost ere the morning
stars had ceased to sing. Our fair cor (
respondent may alternately deny ana
afiiGm, but there stands, unaltered and /
nnalterahle. the inspired decree Of Holy
Writ: Man born of woman is of few
days and fulr Of trouble"
We will conclude our few feeble re-
marks before the singing of the dox-
ology with this benediction: That until
after the close Of the campaign. and
the election Of Stanley as governor. we
want to hear from no one, male or fe-
male, further on this subject who is not
prepared To prove that Job was a myth
and that If he was inflicted with a wife
and boils. he wasn't inspired when he
so sententiously settled this "vexed
woman question"
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