The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-06-26
THE MAN AND THE WOMAN


ton we were made to recognize what
an effective weapon a ballot is when
properly directed-but in this in
stance Ballot" skipped a part of his
lesson and got lost in the meshes.
He says that God first created man,
and just how long man remained by
his lonesome" we are not told That
it may have been days, weeks, months
or even years.
Yet we are told in the very first
chapter of Genesis that the man and
the woman were created the self
same day-the sixth day.
So Adam could not have been "by
his lonesome for days, weeks
months or years.
We are not only toll in this self
same chapter that they were created
the same day, but we are told that
they were created equal, and that
they were given equal dominion.
They were both put on an equal
plane. That is the record.
After creating the heavens and the
earth, the land and the sea, beasts
of the forests, fowls of the air, fishes
of the sea, tree, plant and flower, God
then finished his marvellous work by
creating the man and the woman.
Here is the record:
80 God created man in his own
image, in the image of God created
he him-male and female created he
them. And God blessed them, and
God said unto them, be fruitful and
multiply, and replenish the earth.
and subdue it, and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over every living
thing that creepeth upon the earth.
= And the evening and the morn
ing were the sixth day"
If, as Ballot" says, man is wo-
mans support, protector and defend
er, while she is only to preside as
the queen of the home, has not man
miserably failed in his duty?
What do some of the imperfect rec
ords of the United States show:
There are a half million women
stenographerss
There are nearly half million wo-
men teachers and professors.
There are more than a half million
in various trades.
There are nearly one million women
engaged in agricultural pursuits.
Though enjoined to keep silent in
the churches" there are seven thou
sand three hundred and thirty-nine
female clergymen.
There are over two thousand wo-
men journalists.
There over seven thousand women
physicians.
There are over one thousand de-
signers.
There are over one thousand wo-
men lawyers.
There are half million women in
the various professions.
And in all these various profes.
sions and occupations women are
making good.
They are going to do still better.
Why?
Because they do not look upon the
wine cup when it is red. They dc
not waste their time in riotous living
They do not chew tobacco and smoke
cigarettes. They do not hang over
pool and billiard tables all day anG
late into the night.
AS missionaries they are carrying
the gospel into all lands, and the
churches are not suffering by i
either.
We can remember when society wa:
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counter, or handling the telegraph
keys, or seen at the printers case.
When she mounted a bicycle o.
rode cross-saddle she was regarded
as having unsexed herself.
But she has lived these criticisms
down, and now she is everywhere
And in every position she occupies
she is making good.
In many of the states she has beer
exercising the ballot for many years
and it is the testimony of judges o
the courts, governors of the states
ministers and journalists, that sh
has lost none of her womanly attrih
utes, and that she has been a facto
in the publication of politics.
She has shown her capacity in hold
ing office.
AS wise rulerS Sha has shou,n ny