The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-25

had slain. tanned it. divided 1t with in- finite pains into pieces which were shaped to the semblance of the human body, pierced holes in the bits of leath- CT and sewed them together with leath- CT thongs for thread. Thus the tailor ing. dressmaking and the leather in- dustry began.
 Woman twisted and brsSeed tender grass fbers together into mats. cover ings for the body and awnings for shelter So the textile industry began. strictly among women, and in the hands of women it has mostly remain ed till within the memory of the pres ent generation. Woman's inborn fn- stinct for decoration told her that the grasses would be more beautiful If stained according to regular patterns by the juices of plants. So she orig mated the art of dyeing.
 Woman found that certain grains are good for food. She gathered these grains for herself, her children and her men. Later she learned that it was wise to plant the seed of the grains and care for them till the harvest. Man was too busy killing things to take any part in this labor. So woman evolved the art of agriculture. Next the race found out by experiment that | flesh tasted better when 1t was subject | ed to the heat of fire. Man was too | busy killing things to roast the game | he had killed. Woman had to do that. | So woman was the original cook. Wo- man found early that the grains would be more palatable and easily chewed if | they were broken into fine bits She ground them In a stone mortar and | made the first meal. Thus woman in- vented the vessles to hold the food was thus the first potter.
 1 When man had killed off the savage beasts of the jungle and had killed also all that he could of his own kind | his restless soul invaded woman's sphere. He invented and devised ma l chimes to take the place of handiwork. 1 And, mark you, the very moment man took hold of woman's occupations that moment began fraud. cheating and l cheapening in every one of her noble. useful industries for the feeding, cloth- | ing and sheltering of the race. Deny it who can!
 1 Even in the field of war. mans es- pecial province, what general of mod ern times took the most desperate chances and led forlorn hope to vic- tory. saving nation from being blot | ted out and the map of Europe from l being changed? A woman-Joan of Arc. Under whose reign did England | first attain world prominence and DOW CT. changing from a half civilized na- | tion to a civilized one? Under Queen | Elizabeth. whose reign to this day is the most glorious and important among those of all the monacrhs of Great Britain. What reign is the most splendid in the history of Russia, | where the miserable Salic law Is now in force? That of Catherine the | Great. In our land. who wrote the book that has had the widest circulation and made the most profound impression? A woman, Harriet Beecher Stowe Who has accumulated one of the greatest fortunes ever amassed even in Amer ica? woman. Mrs. Hetty Green: that. too. without ever having been i charged with bankrupting another to | get 1t. And. finally, a woman. Miss Pretty of Washington. can turn out more copy on a typewriter than any | other person on the planet today 1 It Is true not many women have done these things; but. on the other hand. not many women have tried to do them-just enough to show that wher- ever woman takes a hand in earnest she can beat man in what he has come to consider his own field,
 Man invented politics. with all the word implies. He is welcome to it. He also invented war. It has been said that woman must not vote because she cannot fight No. Heaven be praised. she mostly cannot, except as Joan of Arc fought. Woman arbitrates. The
 wanton, hendish murder of billions of innocent human beings can never be
 laid at her door.
 Tabitha sourgrapes.