The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-12-01

the enemy, unconsideringly and mere
ly because they came first to hand,
not yaluing them more than had they
been paving stones. One man, how
ever, could not do this-the sculptor.
He who, though there might be no
work Of his own chisel among them,
yet he knew what each of these
works of art had cost, knew by ex-
perience the long years of struggle
and study and the infnitude of toll
which had gone to the shaping of even
one limb, to the carving of even one
perfect outline, he could never so use
them without thought or care. In
stinctively he would seek to throw in
household goods, even gold and silver,
all the city held, before he sacrificed
its works of art!
Mems bodies are our Women's work
of art. Given to Us power to control
we will never careIessly throw them
in to fill up the gaps in ambitions
and greeds. The thought would never
come to US as women, Cast in mems
bodies; settle the thing So" Arbi-
tration and compensation would as
naturally occur to her as cheaper and
simpler methods of bridging the gaps
in national relationships, as to the
sculptor it would occur to throw in
anything rather than statuary,
though he might be driven TO that
at last.
This is one of those phases of hu-
man life-not very numerous. but
very northumberland which the
man as man, and the woman as wo-
man, on the mere ground of their diff
ferent sexual function with regard to
reproduction, stand, and must stand
at a somewhat differing angle.
The twenty thousand men prema-
turely slain on a field of battle mean
to the women of their race twenty
thousand human creatures to be borne
within them for months, given birth
to in anguish, fed from their breasts
and reared with toll, if the numbers
/
nation are to be maintained. In ma
tions continually at war, incessani
unbroken child bearing is by war inn
posed on all women If the state is Il
survive; and whenever war occurs, !.
numbers are to be maintained, ther.
must be an increased child bearing
and rearing. This throws upon Wo
man as woman war tax compares
with which all that the male expend
in military preparation is compare
lively light.
The reltions of the female towar.
i the production of human life infuenc'
undoubtedly even her relation towart
animal and all life. ut is fine day
let US go out and kill something! Z
The cry of the typical male of Ger
tain races, instinctively. There i
a living thing, almost equally in
stinctively. It is true that the wo
man will sacrifice as mercilessly, a
cruelty, the life of hated rival or 81
enemy, as any male; but she Away
knows what she is doing, and the val
ne of the life she takes! There is n
lighthearted, carless enjoyment i
the sacrafce of life to the normal wo
man: her instinct, instructed by e0
perience, steps In to prevent it. Sh
always knows what life costs, an,
that is more easy to destroy than crl.
ate it.
i For the vast bulk Of humanity
probably for generations to come, til
instructive antagonism of the humsL
child-bearer to reckless destructio
of that which she has at so n1u,:
cost produced will probably be neces
sary to educate the race to any cls.a
, conception of the bestiality and il
sanity of war.