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

morian Il. Stockton, widow of the late
.,nuIar story writer Frank r. Stockton,
rras closely associated with the work OF
~ gifted husband. Any reader of the
spudder Grange" stories, for example,
mi realize that she was a valuable as
sstant to him. She was joint author with
s'm In writing THE Home" one of his
s.rller books Mrs. Stockton is member
N prominent South Carolina family)
60 much has been written about
somen OF the fair-skinned races, of
heir part in the making of the his
,ory of the world, of what they have
hone and ought not to have done, of
vbat they are doing and ought not to
ID and to what they should do, that
N may be of interest to catch here and |
here in this worlds history what |
their dark-skinned sisters have done |
In bringing about the conditions of |
line life we are now living and the So
HAL. religious and geographical dis
inctions which prevail at present.
II is not my intention in this article
10 exploit the famous dark-skinned
vomen of recorded history-we will
slance at them in their proper places.
IThey we're types, II Is true, but they
could not have been and have acted
their great parts had not the wom-
en- whom they represented been
endowed, In some measure with their
dits. Such women do not spring full
aedged from sordid environment. But
they were exceptional and individual
Of oil ~ ic
from the ordinary women of race
or nation that progress comes.
The portraits the ethnologists give
US of the primitive woman are not
captivating, but the poets represent
her as being almost divine, floating in
ethereal beauty fresh from the hand
Of her Creator. Whether the scientist
has arrived at the truth through long
and laborious stages of investigation,
or whether the poet has OWNED the
truth through inspiration, I do not
pretend to decide. But they are both
agreed upon one thing-that her COM
pexion was of "sun-kissed" hue ac-
cording to the latter and of dark
pigment" according to the other.
From the investigations of science
and the reports of explorers. and from
other sources we have good deal of
Information, II not In relation to this
very primitive woman to her not dis
tant descendants in a state OF saw
agery. And even in the very lowest
Of these primeval races we find that
women played an important part
They were slaves, 1t Is true, because
they knew nothing better. If they had
had the least glimmering sense Of
woman's rights they were quite capable
OF asserting themselves even at tina,
period of time. And here 1t may bs
we'll to correct misapprehension.
Men did not make slaves and beasts
Of burden OF their women merely be
cause the man was wicked or lazy, Of
both-they had affection (of sort
for their wives. But they realized
with great force that man was a su
perior being, the lord of the earth ant
all 1t contained, including woman, ant
that she was an afterthought OF tn
gods created for his benefit. AM
therefore made of very inferior ma
terial. Consequently it was consid
cred as degrading In a man to do WON
ans work as 1t is now for him to wea
petticoats. II 1t CHANGED that 1t cam
into a mans mind to relieve his wear
wife of some part Of the load she wa
carrying on her back, he would rejet
L. A. s~c on rr1nah he
cause he did not want the burden,
because by so doing he would max
himself the laughing stock OF tn
tribe.
And what did these mighty lords {
creation dc toward the improvement
of the world they claimed? Absolutel
nothing! Fishing. hunting. trappin
lighting, the necessities Of the pre-
ent; the implements to accomplis
these purposes. and there the recoi
ends Meantime. as the years wei
on and generation succeeded gener
tion the women were using the
brains and improving social life wi
all sorts OF inventions to assist the
in their manifold labors and to az
new comforts to a rude existence,
Sewing, Consider how patient tn
must have worked to get tire
from a rawhide and the cleverness
evolving a needle from bone. Tia
ming and dressing leather. To tn
a dirty hairy. tough skin into
clean and soft material suitable
clothing. Fashioning with deft q
gers this clothing to their spec
needs. Agriculture of the simple
sort, but mostly the experiments
women. Spinning. The records of
human race go not back to a til
when the spindle was unknown, work
out from a woman's brain VIII
grasped the idea that the long fib
of the fax she was cultivating oul
In some way to be made more adap
BILE for thread than the unwieldy 81
with its slow and painful proce
Hence. the stick twirled In the fing'
Weaving. Not long journey to
loom after arriving at the spindle
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