The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1916-11-24
HAS WOMAN EVER
SHOWED ABILITY?
IA reply 70 john
Mr.. Frank Greaves:

Mr.. Frank Greaves:
Dear sur:-We hav got up bett /
bout whether womens have ever
showed theyselves able to vote? We
want to know if she have ever any
where ans asst you TO look in history
and repli thru the Graihck, so there
won't be no shenanigin about the
/ Dear John;-It is devoutly hoped
that the boys viii not accuse you Of
forging this letter, in other words,
that there be no fear Of ehicanery-
or chenanigan.
Your inquiry has upset certain be-
/ liefs held to. | thought that, hav-
ing had some little experience with
mule, being country boy, and hav
ing seen a crazy monkey had seen
the biggest fool on earth in them.
But, John, if ever we have met |
want to retract that belief and ac
cord you the honor Of being first
among mundane idiots. 1t does
seem that a man with a pumpkin
head and the intelligence of monkey
wrench would have himself answer
ed. the question you put in your
letter. The idea of man, or an ex-
cuse for a man asking one to look
in history for solution to ques-
ton that is being daily and nightly
answered in every parlor on earth.
John, if you will be a little more
devout, or at least, inquisitive, you
will find that woman found this
. earth bachelors club with one man
whose sole ambition must have been
to chase butterflies. He then had
no idea of art, no appreciation of beau
ty, and was withal a holder of rever-
,, sionary interest in Paradise. Wo-
man came, she bought this interest
in sacred property with an apple
and this when he was too indolent to
; go to the garden, or orchard, with her
She clipped the wings of his fancy,
and set him to dreaming about
thrones and empires and the future
greatness Of his family. However,
this may prove that she early Sc
J cured hold on the rulers of earth,
e we shall proceed, lest some bigoted
Solomon arise and accuse your hum
bic correspondent of being sacrile-
D geous.
e When the angels of conscience
drove Adam from Eden, it was a
e woman who salved the scared wounds
r of the sword with kisses She found
h him with no more initiative than 9
d cat; she changed this, as you will
S see. She imbued him with ambition
It gave him longing for power anc
i set going the machinery which
preachers call vanity that now re
suits they wear. She looked upor
the desert and found it without ,
cottage or city, and beginning then
2 she has managed to goad man t,
build empires, institute governments
found democracies, cultivate art
gardens athwart the sun Mind YOU
She did this with a. IN head ~
wooden, not hers). Isn't it wonder
hi. full what tenacity she must have ha
to persist long enough to tutor
- man of that character? So, she sy.
VS. tematized his observations, pointe
10 out the transient glories of fadin
&c nature, And, he, seeing her laugh
90 ing midst the roses and twining tn
~ honeysuckle in her golden tresses,
~, attempted to immortalize these SUI
a., roundings which were blessed wit
=, her presence. Then he took up pain
- ing. She didn't like the first four
~ five hundred pictures and pulled OF
=" his hair. His head got cold when
~ wanted private apartment and
q, 20 put up wall. SO she is the cause
no ' his building the first house. No,
~ John, this is some history that WI
. .VS not written; you learn it by beir
I'm hypnotized and swallowing a prun
he Of course you will understand tn
oh 1t is true to nature, and very natur
NV that Adam wanted to see her as 81
.ch was in summer when the honeysuc
res lie bloomed, for she was loveliest al
" fairest when summer was on the va
m ley and the robin called his asso,
Ter pates.
net Along about this time he began
nd fancy her in different poses. He il
zen agined her a ruler of the mountai
and the sea that wooed with lispi
Is waves. He wound a wreath of iii
ers about her alabaster bosom and sa
ing of Dian, the goddess of the sea.
cry saw her asleep when slumber h
nth sealed her lids and hearing the mi
oft muir of her peaceful signs imagir
ian that the wind sang and sobbed
ase the palms must be the voices of {
nc. gels who watched by her cot. A
per IN order came the desire to perp
EN- uate, to sing, and she was the cal
in of it all, this sweetheart of his b,
to hood, who taught him to obey 8
love.
Woman sort of. runs out of his
G ry now, John, for a few years
:" least, and the next time we see
controlling things is when the wild
ten of Janneus, who was exiled by
Pharisees, took up the science of .
live fallen lord and defed the powers
dol. Metullus, Pompey and Sertor
rain just forty-two years from this til
ties when Nero took over the COVE