The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-03-20
THE MODERN WOMAN

er Eve we are astounded and complete
" dumbfounded at the many phases
that woman's personality and exist
ence have done in making history.
King Pharaoh's edict to massacre all
the male children of Egypt, the life OF
Moses the great law-giver and leader
of the Jewish nation was spared by
the hand of woman-King Pharaoh's
daughter: in the terrible suffering OF
the Jewish nation when in captivity.
The great King Ahasuerus was in
fiuenced by his beautiful wife, aJewish
maiden, to hang the arch plOtter Ha-
man and raise to the highest distinc-
ton her own father Mordicar, the Jew,
and thereby mitigating the suffering
and tortures of her own people. And
as history mentions many distinctions
in woman's part in human progress,
perhaps the greatest distinction that
woman ever achieved was when God
Almighty delegated her to be the
mother of our Redeemer.
When woman ceased in her activi-
ties in human progress, and history
was turned over to man, look at. the
result-400 years of blackness,
torture and crime, and history, paints
it as the Dark Ages" There is no
question in my mind that man must
have made mess. of it," and it is
ever record in the worlds history of
this period: man was so Mortified at
what he had done he destroyed all
records and traditions.
/ 1t was once said to be Roman was
greater. than to be a King, and yet
with this greatness it was left to a
woman to overthrow this vast empire.
Come down to more modern history.
1t was left to Queen Elizabeth to quell
the passions of men, to establish in
stitutions of learning and education,
to encourage the great arts of paint
ing and music and to conform the
laws of her kingdom in such manner
that during her reign her kingdom
was strengthened and respected by all
the nations of Europe.
We will pass over the period in
which religious frenzy had blotted
and snuffed out so many valuable
lives and give a passing notice to
queen whose greatness will pass down
through the annals of all history;
whose reign numbered more years
than any other ruler in Europe, who
fostered some of the greatest states
men the world ever produced. 1t was
the desire of this great queen that no
slaughter of human being should ever
occur during her reign. Her name is
loved and revered by every nation on
the face of the earth. Who was this
great queen that that extended her
empire so far from the East that the
sun never sets on its possessions?
Queen Victoria, the greatest ruler and
greatest woman of all times.
The possession of this fair land of
ours was directly due to the sacrifice
Of a woman's most sacred possession
her jewels-and it was made pos
sible for ships. to be secured to carry
the great explorer on his voyage of
discovery. This great continent was
discovered and explored and to the
great glory of American women the
first Caucausian child born on Ameri-
can soil was a girl Virginia Dare. :.
In the light of. present day events
there is something thrillingly signifi.
cant in the fact that the first English
child born in this country should have
been a girl. "a member of the SEX
which is today all over the earth max
ing congresses, legislators and parlia-
ments sit up and listen" to its de-
mands for recognition as a factor in
world government. Space will not be
allowed to eulogise the wonderful
achievements accomplished by woman
In the last three centuries. It will not
allow me to give them a passing no
tice to, the little peasant maid of
France who unfurled the banner and
babe men to follow her to wrest her
bleeding and tortured country from
the hand of the assassin, who was in
possession-Joano of Arc. History re.
veals Joans of Arc of every century,
of every age, of every decade. The
present day has established a phase
that is known in every country and is
spoken of by every tongue on the face
of the earth-the modern woman"
Her achievements will be greater in
the future history than all the past
history has revealed. This prophecy
is predicted on the fact that her pres
ence has been admitted IN All tho