Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-05-18

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| ~ we are today printing in
- full the address of Rev.
| Lyles, given before the
| R& Womans Club, of this
4 city Wednesday, May 10.
WWy Mr.. Lyles Is champion
| - ing the cause of the Suf-
frage amendment which is to be vot-
ed on at the primary June 9Th. He
said:
When the six great acts of crea-
ton were being played, at the end of
each day, the sacred writer puts Gods
approval on each act as good" When
all had been finished and everything
appointed and set in order God saw
that it was mot good for man to be
alone" He then made man a help
meet, and Adam called her Woman.
After God had given them authority
and dominion over his rks, God
saw that everything he had made and
behold, it was very good"
But how woman has been misun-
derstood! God placed her as mans
helpmeet, his companion, and man,
for centuries treated her as his infer
ior, and his slave.
When once Israel had been privil-
eyed to return to Jerusalem, they
brought their wives with them. They
kept on going to Babylon and there
wedding the maidens that had been
met. The chief priest in trying to
work a social reform in this, ordered
all loyal Jews to break the marriage
vow and send their unlawful wives
back. Then the great writer who
could not bear such thoughts forged
this principle in book and put the
ancestor of Great King David as a
Moabite, and in one word Ruth told
the sin of this priests action by writ
ing IL as the name of the book.
The wife OF the Indian builds the
tent and unsaddles the horses. and
prepares the meal while the man
snooZes on his blankets or sits by the
fire; the woman OF India hides behind
her veil or in her apartments while
the man has open freedom; and who
can tell the neglect and suffering that
has come to woman by mans having
misunderstood her?
1t is reserved for great personages
of genius to lift the veil or curtain
that hovers around us and reveal the
future. They put the telescope to our
eyes and bid US look from the daily
round of thought and view the en-
nobling principles. They bid us sit
down beside them and then in COM
mon, plain language bid us behold
this new field of usefulness; this
new forest of gigantic intellects; that
pure, crystal stream of progress; and
that wholesome banquet where the
sons of men feast. They put the ear
trumpet to our dull senses and help
US interpret the sounds of distress
that come from the unfortunate of
earth and bid us fly to their assist
ance; they bid us notice the discord
from the anthem of life and charge
us to put ourselves in harmony with
the great life song; they tell US to
listen to the great tones from the mas
tiers among men and thrill us with a
desire to do their bidding; and they
themselves whisper the secret of
greatness and power so attractively
that we leave ease and luxury, custom
and prudence as unworthy compan-
ions and join company with duty and
conscience. For these great persons
not only blaze out the trail but with
great courage and example lead the
way to Olympian heights and drive
us on to higher plains of action.
A century ago 1t could not be dream
ed of that woman could climb to this
dazzling position of a place beside
man. She was too frail; she was not
a thinker; could she govern? could
she plan? could she execute? could
she with few master strokes point
out the way to successful progress for
individuals? for nations? for the
world? But today when some great
master. be he man or woman, climbs
to this greatness of leader or master
or hero, when he speaks, we all do
reverence and obedience. We have
outlived the old heathenish notion
that for principle or method of en-
to be needed 1t must come
from a man. Woman has proved her
right to the position which she now
holds
In Science
Herschel the great astronomer was
very proud of his sister Caroline, who
passed many nights with him observ-
ing stars and aiding him in his dis
coveries. She discovered some of the
comets which the world credits to
Herschel. Nine. Lepante the Greek
astronomer, calculated the annular
nesi of Italy became so illustrious in
eclipse of the sun for all Europe
which occurred in 1894, and to May
Maury of Harvard college, the world
Is indebted for the periodic revolution
of some of the fixed stars; Maria Ag-
MES of Italy became so illustrious In
the world of science that she was cal
led the Oracle of the seven Language
es." The world owes several volumes
on hydrostatics and astronomy to
Margaret Bryan of England; Miss
Clark of Ireland is the author of Pop
ular History of Astronomy in the
Nineteenth century. Maria Somervil-
lie of Naples placed Laplace's Mech
anism of the Heavens" in such an ac-
cessible form that Herschel is said to
have regretted Laplace no longer liv-
ed to admire 1t. Nor would forget
Augas Scott one of the greatest math-
ematicians, nor Miss Bush of Pea
body Museum Yale who is not only
an authority on animals but prolific
writer; nor Miss Randolph. director
biology in Bryn Mawr college; Mrs.
Elizabeth Cary Agassig, we'll known
scientist in Radcliffe college, Miss
Rathbone curator of marine invert-
ebrates of the U. 8. Natl. Museum !;
Miss Foot who has won Reorganization
in Cellular morphology; Miss Cum
mings associate professor in Welles-
ley college and editor of "The Plant
World" all of whom besides the
great company of others living and
dead who have so greatly aided
sciences in all its Investigations.
To go back to the ancients one
finds Hapatia the daughter of Theon
professor of science in the celebrated
schools of Alexandria. In her youth
she went to Athens, where she at
| tended the lessons of pIutarch fba