Arizona republican., 1916-12-24
Our Ranking Stepmother

She really stepmother but she would have been she had been Adams second wife instead of his first. Her Lih. Most of have never heard of her. The children of Eve from that day this have been joined in conspiracy to ignore her or else to defame her. We have gained impression from the Bible that her second husband the devil, when a matter of fact he was only rich merchant of Phoenica, of the of Beelzebub That is, that is the that given him by the defamers of Lilith The very of Lih perhaps given to ranking stepmother in the way of reproach, for it signifies Night and all evil pertaining darkness and deceit. "Lilith' is also Hebrew for "Screech- owl" but whether the screech owl was named after step mother whether she named after the screech owl do know.
 We are equally uncertain as to the facts concern ing her separation from Adam but from what know Adam his disposition welsh" Eve the of the serpent and the apple, in- clined believe that Lith had grounds for divorce Incompatibility must have existed between Adam and almost any woman
 The most the world knows. that is the most that is popuarly known about Lilth has been learned from a lecture delivered by Robert P. Dow editor of the Brooklyn Chronological Society Bulletin before the New York Chronological Society the American Museum of Natural History New York last Tuesday. The title of the lecture "The
 
 that occasion:
 Tt is true that few people in this country aware that Adam was ever reputed to have had more than wife, but I anticipate pleasure and diff culty in assuring them that the familiar Eve though perhaps first in importance second chronologic ally, and moreover, was probably of Ethiopian ex traction
 Tn Germany people are more familiar with Lih Adams first wife, and, incidentally the subject talk She is first mentioned in early Jewish liter ature-about TOO A. D-as blue-eyed blonde from somewhere in the far north and she still survives in German folklore, where she plays a role somewhat similar to bogey man.. According to the most ancient of Jewish chronicles, she married Adam but had no children by him. and later after securing the prehistoric equivalent to divorce she married rich Phoenician by the name of Beezebub. to whom there is reference in the Bible.
 This desertion of Adam made his followers very bitter and they pronounced the first generation of Liliths children by Beezebub 'zebubs' wasps and the second generation, with accumulatve vndictve- ness they hailed 'succobees.' she-devs. Nor did time soften their feelings, for throughout all sub sequent Jewish mythology constant reference is found to Lilth, the mother of insects.'"
 It was probably the fact that the progeny of Lith called wasps or insects that brought the subject within the domain of entomology and induced MT Dow to take jurisdiction. though it altogether probable that Lliths progeny was so called in the way of reproach Men and women in our day often speak disapprovingly of another as insects" and we have heard them more specifically refer one another as a "louse' or "gnat" We think that we have heard only side. and the worst of the of Lith.
 The latest edition of the International Encyclo- pedia furnishes us some information ing Llith, who is said by the rabbinca writings to have been most beautiful woman, but that she be- came demon. We are not yet ready to accept the latter statement. We have heard too many women called demons, and otherwise traduced for no other reason than that they beautiful We are aware that it is not flial to take the side of our stepmother against first ancestor, then we have our pri- vate opinion of Adam in whose
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