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 those three united kingdoms. She has been called the Semiramis of the North. In earlier ages, the original Semiramis-the Semiramis of the East-was a famous queen of Assyria. supposed to have reigned about 1900 B. C., builder of great cities and the conqueror of large portions of Persia and Ethiopia. She stands out, in tra dition at least, as transcending in abil- ity and force any of the Assyrian kings who were brought into compar- ison with her.
 Still earlier than the days of Sem iramis it was formally decreed ia the earth in civilizations and refine ment. that women were eligible to the throne, either as co-soyereigns with their royal husbands or even as sole rulers. Perhaps the croakefs and critics of that time in the streets of Memphis and Thebes complained that eilS 4NSN w olltiI 1l NulllS Iuc 'older man" into the background and corners of the busy world of that time But even then the oldest statues in ex- istence were of the Prince Ra-Hotep and the Lady Nefert who ruled to- gether before the rulers of the great pyramid; and there were those, even | in that dow wi hot ,1,bo bn, seemed novel and radical, if not rev olutionary, was not so very new, after all. At all events the New Woman did not originate so recently as thirty centuries before the Christian era. In the heroic history of ancient Greece feminine names and deeds are forever her bravest and noblest sons Che lonis, faithful to misfortune who left her husband to share her fathers ex- ile and afterwards left her father to share her husbands exile, Panthea that Smyrnian and more constant Bathsheba Cratessidea. brave and de
 
 teus, that heroine of heroines, calm and faithful and courageous, noble as few eyer were more careful of her modesty after death than of pain in dying. and mainly solicitous to help those of her sisters who were less brave than she.
 i If time permitted We might tell of all the more famous women of whose prominence or power among men and above men, on thrones of royalty and love and letters, We find record in sec ular history, from Artemisia and Dido and Cleopatra to Saint Monica and Paula and Olympias down to Victoria Colonna and Madam Guion, Hanna Moore and Mariah Edgeworth, Caro- line Herschel and Fanny Mendels- sohn, Dorothy Wordsworth and Flor enee Nightingale, and all those whom the world counted worthy according to it's many and varying standards All the sweet names of passionate re- noWn; all the fair shapes of those who loved and smiled and wrought in a kiss the ruin of a life or the saliva tion of a world; all the immortal love Illness of time and the ages, of history and poetry, belonging to her. Helen and Aspasia; Ruth standing breast high among the corn, and the Mazda lene Wiping the feet of her Lord with her long fair hair; fair Rosamond and Agnes Sorel; the Scottish Mary whose witchery made death for her far sweeter to the loving than life without her: Hero and Juliet: Lisette and Jeannette-these and co untless more are buds which cluster around the parent rose; and wherever woman loves and is beloved there the sea born rises again from the iridescent foam and men peril their immortal souls for the flavor of her lips and the perfume of her hair.
 In the New Testament days We see the woman Priscilla improving and 1 cXpounding the theology of the clo= quent Apollos, and Paul speaks of her as one of his helpers in Christ Jesus te whom both he and all the churches of the Gentiles were indobt- ed. Was Priscilla the New Woman, ol, shall We search still further for her origin? The prophet Joel forotold that in the days of the Messiah the daughters of the Lords people should prophecy under the guidance of the spirit of God Was this a foretelling of the coming of the New Woman 2' i Miriam sister of Moses and Aaron, was a woman whose voice was heard and whose power as a leader was felt by mon thirty-fve centuries ago. Yet the New Woman did have an origin very early in the history of the hu man race.