Arizona republican., 1911-08-27
ADAM AND EVE
Some of the Horrors of Civilization That Our First Parents Escaped.

That Our First Parents Escaped.
 In these days of many needless com plications of the problem of living. that was already sufficiently complex without the addition of man-madc embarraSSmcntS. it is interesting to try to imagine what the new and un- spoiled earth was like in the eyes of our first famous progenitors. and to speculate as to their probable mental attitude toward this world that was all before them where to choose" IL is a question whether the positive or the negative blessings of the pair that wandered hand in hand through Edcn's bowers were the better reasons for continued thankfulness. says the Phi ladelphia Ledger Their minds were unveNed by the multifold turmoil of a thousand seething agitations that twentieth century men and women think they must worry about
 There was in that golden age no question of votes for women. there
 were no perturbing court decisions. there were no fluctuating stock mar kets. There was no fire insurance, and there were no politics nor any ma yoralty campaigns. There were mo book agents, no telephones, no bills overdue. no policemen. no professional baseball. There were no schools. and it was not necessary to be public spirited. for there was no public. Nci- ther was it necessary to start any reform associations for any purpose for there was nothing to reform The same blessed absence of the public made public opinion an unknown quantity and saved the expensive bo- ther of public utilities. public servic" corporations. public libraries ard cv- erything that suggests an agglomera- ton of persons for the supposed com munaI welfare. There were no news papers, and there was no one to re- port the antics of the leviathan in his reedy covert or the doings of the me- gatherium in the heart of the ancient wood. No faunal naturalistS invaded the verdant solitude, and the great animals were not surprised for Circuses or slaughtered for museums.
 In the midst of the unimagnable flora and fauna the first man and the first woman had all the room they wanted and there were no strap hang CTS. no crowded ears. m raised rates to be maintained or abated. no smoke nuisance. no unnecessary noise. no hot pavements or crowded tenements The grass was of untrodden greenness, the four waterways of Eden ran crystal clear where cities were unknown; the trees had never felt the incision of the ax The dinosaur was as harm less as the dove. and ate like kitten from the hands of the first gardener and his wife. Since there was no fire one could dispense with COOKS. and the servant problem was noneXis.- ent
 The positive blessings of A3am ana Eve were numerous In the first place. they were perfectly suited-they were made for each othe". In tho next place, they were born grown mp, and thereby escaped such human .u- veniIe ailments as teething. the multi plication table. practicing and all the and physical growing pains of the young idea. Whatever they dId they could do without taking counsel with lawyers or important relatives or trustees or aught except their own in
 
 be commiserated upon the fact that they were orphans: but inasmuch as they had never known the care "t father and mother they could nos miss the parents that never were.
 Why did they go and spoil It? NhF could they not have rested content as they were? Why did they pull c"Wn the laden branch and nibble at the fruit of the tree of wisdom, when She neurological diet they knew Wonld have for it's sequel lasting unhappi- ness?
 And vet somehow. as we reflect upon these things. the vision oi an Adam and an Eve going forth from easeful indolence to labor. from the sheltered and cradled existence to the stern warfare with hard material conditions. leaving behind them the line of least resistance and the prim rose path of dalIiance for the rocky, way that leads rom | fife to Death-this is the picture "i our first parents that it IS more pro fitable for us to consider than the picture of their first uncivillzed' ls norant. indOlent estate. Earth was not earth ere sons of men appeared, and it was not placed under our hu- man feet and hands and eyes to be merely a pleasure ground, an Already of a forest of Arden, whatever the Socialists Utopian dream of 1t may be. Ii is not too much to say that if Adam after the fall was less of an angel he was more of a man. and Eve was far better qualified to be the mother of the race.
 There are over 9l7O miles of rail