Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-11-23
Mother of Man.

Rudyard Kipling as the knight errant
of the the female of the Species" whont
Kipling is charged with maligning. AS
the attack on the fair sex was in verse,
so the defense is in rhymed stanzas.
and to the same metre. MI. Kipling
insisted that the female of the speciea
is more deadly than the male" Caine,
in effect. asserts she is no such thing,
and proceeds to tell why, calling his
reply 1.-The Mother of the Man" Fol-
lowing is the answering song:
When the Lord of creation gave the wom-
an to the man,
In that blest but brief existence ere the
rule of i'll began,
Then he knew what of her conduct, wheth-
err innocent or frail,
That the female of the species would be
scapegoat to the male.
When he banished them from Eden for
The sin that each had wrought.
And the flaming sword of Vengeance
sealed the fate hat both had sought,
Then he knew throughout the ages, long
as man should tell the tale.
That the female Of the species would be
temptress to the male.
When he cast his children from him and
by primal earthly vow
Doomed their seed to eat their life-bread
In the sweat OF blood and brow,
The he knew where paths were reddest
down the line Of labor's trail.
There the female of the species would be
Slavemate to the male.
When he lowered he man with passions.
when he formed him from the dust.
With its wilderness Of instincts, with its
lava stream of lust,
Then he knew that in the whirlwind of
s+,, MS manhood, wasteful gale.
subject to the male.
When he ordered that the woman, both as
mother and as wife
Should obey her law of being as the We
hicle of life,
Then he suffered it to happen lest the gen.
eratiOnS fail,
That the female of the species might he
"deadlier" than the male.
But when the Lord of creation gave the
woman to the man
In that blest but brief existence ere the
root of i'll began,
Then he willed 1t that If sharing in mans
faul and in his fate
She should therefore be his equal and the
partner in his state.
Not to govern or cajole him, not to court
or speak him smooth,
Not to snare or to enslaye him hut IA
cheer, inspire n sOothe:
Not his temptress. not his slavemate, not
MS subject, not his squaW.
But his! helpmeet and his angel by tho
right of Gods own law.
II ne cursed the man with labor. aa fho
human lots alloy,
He provided that for woman his v,or,e
should be his Joy.
II he lowered the man with passions
which the grOsser instincts move.
He reserved 1t to the woman to uplift his
lust to love. ~"
If he ordered that the mother OF the chill.
dren of her womb A
Should dare her death by travail and Rpht
TIL crack of doom,
He ordained that by that impulse. still tina
purest and the best,
h should gather all that suffer in her
pity to her breast.
Nurtur.ng. nursing, guarding. e,,id;n.
giving strength with heart and handt
Paying toll In n to Nature which M
man may understand;
Dauntiess from the God who made her
without fear to draw her breath ~
Savior Of the weak and helpless first an
birth and last at death.
came a living soul oe'
Hers has been the old earth's burthen.
age on age from pole to pole.
Hers the conflict. hers the conquest. herr
the flag of life unfurled. N
Hers the sorrow, hers the suffering barA
the love that moves the world
Therefore, why should man. the migrate
Welcome every fool and coward. onf%
close the door on her?
Room. slres. room within your councils
pare your ~foreheads IL you can.
For behold. without your portal stands
the mother Of the man!
"star Of the Evening""
Beautiful star In heaven. so hrirht
Softiy falls thy silvery light.
A. thou newest from earth afar,