The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-12-05

long before with the fingers and II was
only necessary to steady the threads
on wooden rollers.
And this brought about woman's |
share in early art. SO many plants
yielded beautiful-colored juices; hence
the dyeing and later, the painting of
cloth and skins. Some of these savage
adornings may be seen at the present
day with colors still vivid and with
attractive designs
And so | might go on through all
the industries that have come down
to us-all suggested by dark-skinned
women.
1t has never been decided by the
learned whether fire was direct rev.
elation from God, or whether man dis
covered 1t accidentally. In the abb
sence of any authentic information
on the subject venture the opinion 1t
was discovered by a dark-skinned
woman. AS she was the one who had
the most use for fire 1t is reasonaY.e
TO suppose that she 1t was VITO CHANGED
Tin fit of temper. perhaps) to rub
two of her stone knives together with
great violence and velocity and was
surprised with the divine spark.
However this may be, 1t was woman
who Immediately availed herself of
this all-important discovery. and being
tired of meat and fish dried in the
sun, conceived the brilliant idea Of
laying 1t on the hot Goals. And thus
she started in long career down the
ages the roasts and ragouts and chow
ders and fricandeaus that have given
pleasure and dyspepsia to millions of
her descendants of all colors.
There is literally no end to this
branch of the subject, but have said
enough to convince any rational NOR
tai that a creature capable of all this
could not have been held in utter COLI
tempt by contemporary man. In
ferior she was considered, as matter
of course, and she was, to greet ex'
tent, a commodity to be bought and
sold; but, running through all the
savagery, there is found strong
thread OF respect for women. Ever
in the lowest tribes they had some
rights which they we're not at all back
ward in enforcing; and among thu
more advanced peoples they had man!
well-defined rights which no maj
| could in any case take from them
5 The men privately sought their advice
: to take the council and exploit 1t a
their own wisdom; they were admit
g ted to some of the solemn feasts; and
[ sometimes, they armed themselves an
t went to the battlefield. This. however
n seems rarely to have occurred In tn
i very early ages.
t Such was the dark-skinned primitiv
q woman and such were her achieve
/, ments.
It Drifting down the long stream
h time, we suddenly come upon the bri
i liant vision of the queen OF Sheb
= Out of the darkness Of the dark cor
X tinent she emerges, robed In splendo
invested with power, endowed VIII
wit and fancy, moved by an INTEL
q gent curiosity--a woman capable
m lappreciating not only the glory OF so
II ONION but his wisdom also. She da
IL zles us for brief moment and tht
9. disappears into the darkness when
y she came and leaves no trace. b
At It REQUIRES no notwithstanding
~ common sense-to follow her into tn
4 mysterious land and find a nation
40 women. not SO exceptionally endowe
ID perhaps, as this great queen, but woi
Of en- of strong character, and vlgoro
10 intellect, capable of dealing with t
at problems of their time. Otherwi
he there could have been no queen
Sheba.
20 In the twilight of history we nc
No. the appearance of remarkable e
ar syrian queen or, more plausibly, sever
., successive queens, who were new tyI
ed in that olden world They were i
~ only successful warriors, but they VIC
"a engineers. mathematicians and arcl
nd tects They turned the courses
he rivers. SPAWNED them with birds
"a and confined their waters witt
"a bounds; they raised great mol
a. ments and built temples and pub
=, edif,ces. The name Semiramis
ar synonymous WIN e'ei9 h'AN
ne ness.
ry
las Coming down to the Christian
ect we find one of the most interest
be- studies of womankind OF any color
as any age in the Arabians. Those ia
Ike skinned women. with no possible
the of cultivating intellect, the women
a brutal race of men. in degrad
of environment, fenced In with custe
emit hostile to them, changed the race
ely the habitable globe and founded
ng. great religion! Mohammed him'
res declared persistently and often.
ish he would never have been able
ord achieve success but for his wife {
ent iiah. This plain, faithful, sens
IRA. woman never faltered in the darl
leir hour, encouraging In weakness
,ith restraining In excess. And when