The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-11-27
The Cruel Sex.

The Ladies' Home Journal recently
published poem by Rudyard Kip
ling, which they had widely adver.
tised in former issues and through
which ran the refrain, For the i.
male OF the species !s more deadly
than the male
The idea that is considerably i'm.
pressed upon the public is the supe-
riority OF man.
| Womankind soon found Q most of
supporters from the press; some,
doubtless, urged by 8allantry, ana
quite as many more by conviction,
but the happlest answer of them all
comes from Jesuit priest, who is
surprised that a magazine, distinctly
iemlnlne in gender, should be founu
publishing their brutal attack on
their sex" and rub it in by giving
a full length portrait Of their cigar
smoking and rather worried-looking
executioner.
or course the jesuit didn't say it
In just those words. but that's what
he meant
AS an illustration to prove his
point, Kipling takes the she-bear and
the cobra. Having a very limited ac-
quaintanco with both, and possessing
no desire TO cultivate their acquaint-
ance. few women can dispute th<
question. But We believe the teToci-
ty OF the sex might be confined TO
just such examples. Doubtless, the
she-bear had some little he-bears a
home she was fearful for, and none
of the reptile family have been on
speaking terms with mankind since
that famous conversation in
the Garden OF Eden, when the snake
got the best OF Eve.
He also invokes the aid OF the
clergy to bolster up his pretensio
and assures us that:
When the early Jesuit fathers
preached to Hurons and Choc-
taws,
They prayed to be delivered from the
vengeance of the squaws;
Twas the women, not the warriors,
turned those stark enthusiasts
pale,
For the female OF the species is more
deadly than the male
There were no early Jes-
uits' among the Choctaws
or Chactas or Cha'htas or
Chactas or Chasses, and when they
did arrive they weno treated with tol
ers6le decency. Indeed, the tribe
showed it's affection for them on on.
occasion by lifting the scalps OF eigl
teen Yazoos who had murdered mis-.
sionary; and perhaps II is worth re-
cording that the corpse which was
horribly mangled by the cruel malet
was given an honorable burial r
cause OF the entreaties OF captive
II ts true. but.
ones would have done the Same. Nor
were the Huron women notorious 70
their barbarity to "the stark enthusi.
asts." Could Kipling call up the spirit
Of de Drebcuf or OF Chaumonot from
the vasty deep he would hear how
a heroic squaw had defended them
for weeks in her cabin at the risk of
her own life from a bloodthirsty mob
OF the other sex that was ragin out
side Jogues also, who was slain ny
the cousins of tho Hurong, would
have told with gratitude how, again
and again, the souaws wopt over hi
wounds and tried in their |
helpless way to give MIN relief. They
him of danger which besct
him on all sides, and at the end OF !
his terrible trial. before the hatchct
descended on his head. one dear Ole |
squaw pleaded for his life with tears !
in her eye, and Offered TO die in
his stead. Indeed, there are many |
other examples in those savage days |
which show, if it we're necessary tt |
10 so, how very much superior
an is, whether red or white, or black |
or yellow, over her maze companlo' |
n those qualities which are inherent |
y hers, of gentleness, tenderness,
mercy and compassion. or course,
here were fiendish hags among those
old coppcr-colored females, but as the
noble Indian taught his children 20
De as fierce and cruel as wild beasts,
o make them successful i'll life, he
did the same for the unfor-
unate squaw, whom he commonly
reated with the most atrocious in