The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-19
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we nave always been accustomed 10 regard old Father Adam as a really good sort, considsring all the eircum- stances. His experiences with the wo- man, the snake and the apple tree may have had tendency to make him somewhat gruff and hufry at times. but we have not been accustomed to look upon him as lazy loafer or anything like that We have thought of him patterins about with spade and hoe. planting and cultivating his Ieeks. onions and other vegetables, and in all ways acting the part of model husband and husbandman, milking the cows shearing the sheep. feeding the pigs. curfyiAg the family horse. build ins the kitchen fires. watching the dim ner pot and performing the many oth- CT domestic duties devolving on the man of the family, when there are no servants to be had.
 But now comes forward one Mrs. Mccuiloch of Evansville. Ind. who in addition fO her other claims to dis tinetion. has the unusual one of being the only woman Justice Of the Peace in the United States. She makes the distinct charge that tf,e old fellow was lazy losfer who was of no good on earth so far as the family was concerned. and that he didn't even help to raise Cain and Abel. but left it all to Eve, These charges lead The Kansas City Journal to say:
 According to Mrs- McCuIloch. every body in the Garden of Eden worked but Adam, and he spent his days romping over the paleonthrppic swamps in search of the alert and crafty ichthy- optergyians, which. we may assume. laws in those days and 1t was easy 4 to flush a e0vay of iichthyorni right at I the back. ,door,s while almost every morning Adam could look out and see the apple trees n rom whose branches l swung a acynocepthAius leucophaeus chattering fmpudentiy.s Also we know that there were coinmon or gArden snakes in abundance. If only Adam I had cleaned out the snakes. what a I the world,
 l --lk IS QESQulSLluk- Al IntB ldLe4 QhIo LO l learn these unpleasant things about old Adam. Heretofore the father of the human race. has eno1yed a fairly good reputation for industry and do- mesticity But Mrs. McCulloch knows absolutely that he was a 1oafer and a poor provider. and that Eve not only took in washing, but probably had to 1 procure Adam's tobacco as well. Of I course Adam might have had rheuma- tism. Thistis a malady that seems to 1 have a singular affinity for the indo- lent husbands of these modern times. or perhaps ,s Adams side hurt him i'm was asleep and couldn't help himself.
 Now is not all this interesting to all of us who believe in the Atlantic theory. and who are proud to claim kinship with the ancient gentleman7 It is true that Mrs. McCu1loch is one of the strong-rninded. and that she was speaking at a convention of wo- men suffragists when she said all these mean and unkindIys things about the ancient gentleman whose claim to having been the father of the human race is generally conceded by believ. CTS in sacred history but even that | NVSSu ' SuttEOAy 4-ESACfe. ueF SklFIS-- if she wears any. w76ns if is doubt less true that her. words gave satis- faction to most of those who heard them. we insist that she has no right to talk that way. Adam is dead. and as far as we know has no near rela- tives to speak up for hinG and defend his reputation; therefore we take oc- casion to come forward as attorney for the defense and speak a kindly word for him. c- .
 It is strange how some people seem to take delight in knock ing the dead ones. The old adage which1teils us to say nothing but good of the dead has no weight for them. Some men abuse Eve, because she wasn't sharp enough to outwit the serpent, and then rap Adam because he let Eve fool him, Then on the other hand there are wo- men like Mrs. McCulloch who like nothing better than to hit Adam when ever they get a chance. Better let them alone and .kneek some of the living. Adam is ont of 1t for good