River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-02-25

lney nad sugar, obtained by dry
ing a sweet reed, grinding it and
using the fine particles. This was
used as a sweetning or made into
what we would call puffs by wet
ting the flour and roasting it un-
til it had puffed up and Drowned.
These are only examples.
While doing these various du-
ties woman was laying the found
alton for transportation She was
the primal pack animal, carrying
her burdens on her head or back,
The passing freight, the flying ex-
press, the majestic ship are all
outgrowths of her work, so that
one writer said, II do not wonder
that the ship carpenter carves
the head of woman on the Prov
of his vessel nor that locomotives
and railroad appliances should be
addressed as She"
Time will not permit me to take
up woman's share in creating, pre-
serving and spreading language,
but we cannot ignore her as the
basis of society. "The fir S
stable society was mother and
her helpless babe. To attach man
permanently to this, for the good
of the kind, has been the strug-
gle of the ages" and has been per-
fected under the monogamian fam
lily. Under the clan system the
father necessarily was of less i'm
portance and descent was along
the female line, the mothers name
was the name Of the clan and the
child took it's title from her.
WOman's most important mission
was the bearing and rearing of
children and this is one among the
number of things in which the saw
age woman excelied. they pray
ed the gods for children, offered
sacrifices for children and worked
like slaves to bring these young
lives to maturity, stimulated not
only by the maternal instinct, but
but by a pride and devotion FOR
their tribe or clan.
In my reading I came across
this little paragraph: "If women
now sit on thrones, ii the most
beautiful painting in the world is
Of mother and her child, if the
image of a woman crowns h e
dome of the American Capitol, f
in allegory and metaphor n d
painting and sculpture the high
est ideals are women, it is be-
cause they have a right to be
there. By all their drudgery and
patience, by all their suffering and
kindness, they have earned their
fight to be there"
II we might be permitted in any
way to know woman's nature from
it's earliest beginning, l fancy we
would find the inherent qualities
much the same as they are today.
We are told that two thousand
years ago, when the worlds great
Martyr freely yielded His life,
there was no woman who clamored
for it; none ever betrayed FL i'm
with a traitors kiss; none ever
denied Him; none ever scourged
Him, but a woman begged that
His life be spared; a little group
of women stood at the foot of the
cross to offer what solace tn ey
could; Jesus spoke His first word
to woman when His soul trium-
phed over death, and at that time
He gave to woman the privilege
to bear the glad tidings. The
Christian church is called "The
Bride Of Christ" Biblical history
abounds with such characters as
Mary, Dorcas, Lydia, Miriam, Es-
Their, Ruth and Deborah. Of De-
borah it is written that her gen
Jus is superior to any recorded in
the history Of the Hebrews, from
Moses to David, an interval Of
more than four hundred years and
scriptual commentators have re-
marked that Deborah alone, of
all the rulers of Israel, has escap-
ed unreproved by the prophets
and inspired historians.
Those of you who visited the
Worlds Fair at Chicago remember
the great golden statue of young
woman in the place of honor, while
all about her were grouped the
industrial buildings. Then perhaps
some of you remember in the an
thropological building an exhibit |
from cemetery in Peru; one
figure there was the crouching
skeleton of a Peruvian woman.
wrapped in grave clothes, while
all about her were placed dishes
of vegetables, cradle frame, spind-
lie, and pottery-things with which
she worked and was familiar in