The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-11-28

Mr.. Hall Game has written
poem In answer to Mr.. Kpling's "The
Female of the Species" Mr.. Gaines
poem is entitled THE Mother of the
Man" and is reprinted from the New
York Journal as follows.
When the Lord of Creation gave the
woman to the man,
In that blest, but brief existence ere,
the rule of i'll began,
Then He knew what of her conduct,
whether 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 that 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,
Then He knew where paths We're
reddest down the line of labor's
trail;
There the female of the species
would be slavemate to the male,
When He lowered the man with pas
sions, when He formed him from
the dust,
With it's wilderness of instincts, with
its lava stream OF lust,
Then He knew that in the whirlwind
of his manhood's wasteful gale,
Still the female of the species would
be subject to the male.
When He ordered that the woman,
both as mother and as wife,
Should obey her law of being as the
vehicle of life,
Then He suffered it to happen lest
the generation fail
That the female of the species might
be "deadlier" than the male.
But when the Lord of Creation gave
the woman to the man,
In that blest but brief existence ere
the rule of i'll began,
Then He willed 1t that if sharing in
mans fault 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 share or to enslave him, but
cheer, inspire and soothe;
Not his temptress. not his slavemate,
not his subject, not his squaw,
But his helpmate and his angel, by
the right OF Gods own law
If He cursed the man with labor as
the human lots alloy,
He provided that for woman his work
should be his JOY;
If He lowered the man with passions
which the grosser instincts move
He reserved it TO the woman to up
lift his lust to love
II he ordered that the mother for the
children of her womb,
Should dare her death by travail
and fight till crack of doom,
He ordained that by that impulse,
still the purest and the best,
She should gather all that suffer in
her pity TO her breast.
Nurturing. nursing, guarding, guild
ing, giving strength with heart
and hand.
Paying toll in pangs to nature, which
no man may understand;
Dauntless, from the God who made
her without fear to draw her
breath,
Savior of the weak and helpless,
first at birth and last at death.
Slnce-the Lord creating woman
she became a living soul
Hers has been the old earth's burth.
en-. age on age, from pole to pole.
Hers the conflict, her the conquest,
hers the flag OF life unfurled;
Hers the sorroy, her the suffering,
hers the love that moves the
world
Therefore, why should man. the in
crate, when he chooses to confer,
Welcome every fool and coward, only
close the door on her?
Room, sirs. room within your coun.
ellis, bare your foreheads If you
can,
For behold. without your portal
stands the Mother of the man.