The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-07-06
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/ She has furnished the theme for
more than a million sermons, all in
adverse criticism
She ate the apple" and is response
bic for the fall
She has been burned at the stake
and drowned in muddy waters on the
false accusation Of witchcraft
The night through which she has
passed has been one Of impenetrable
gloom.
AS yet she has only reached the
gray dawn Of the morning-the noon
day as yet seems far way Off.
To the ordinary press and pulpit
her clothing are an ofense
If she wears TOO many clothes she
is extravagant if she wears TOO few
she subjects herself to hostile com
ment
II her dresses are made short she
, is accused of indecency If she
lengthens them. it is said that they
drag the filth of the street. and are
an abomination.
Even the shirtwaist, now SO univer-
sally worn. had to run the gauntlet
iof disapproval, for it was said that
/ it was "mannish" and hose wearing
them we're discarding all womanly
modesty
The "hoopshirt." "Grecian bend"
and hustle" of our grandma hers.
down 10 the close-ftting garments of
the present day, all had 10 run the
gauntlet Of pulpit press and street
corner critics yet Throughout the cen.
turtles, always the mark for carping
critics. the woman has been our hope
and our salvation. She has been the
safety valve of the race. She has
been the chart and compass that has
directed mankind into the haven Of
safety
First at the cross and last at the
sepulchre." has been her record
throughout the ages.
20, woman, in our hours of ease,
/ Uncertain. coy and hard to please.
And variable as the shade,
BY the light quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wiring the
brow.
A ministering angel thou"
Suppose. if you will that the wom-
an had been the offending party in
painting the towns red and making
the nights hideous. That on her &C
count all this prohibition legislation
were made necessary? That because
of her gratifying perverted taste
the atmosphere in our public gather
ings had been polluted with the odor
OF the smoke of the pipe, cigar and
cigarette? That her Indulgence in
tobacco had made cuspidors a mat
ter of course in all our hotels and
public places.
Suppose she had filed our jails and
penitentiaries and made our police
courts, and criminal courts. and so
many other courts. positively neces-
stiles? What kind of world. think
you. would we have?
Denied a voice in the churches, sup
pose she had also been denied mem
bership. what would be the condition
of the churches today?
No wonder the worlds treatment of
womanhood has caused Arthur Bris-
! bane to write a full page article on
"Womanhood" in the Sunday Ameri-
can He likens woman to "a restless
ocean" Restless" he says, "fckle,
changeable, Eighty, weak. unknowa-
BILE and unknown-like the ocean
woman is all things"
We make the following quotation:
"In a million ways men have de-
scTibed women, and accurately-as
in a million ways they might describe
the ocean. its ways, its moods, and
accurately
The tops of the frothy waves are
light. changing. shifting. uncertain
and the small-brained seagull would
say How changeable and tickle
The ocean looks TO the seagull as
the world Of women looks to man
! But in osean and in womanhood the
real and great qualities are depth,
power. stability.
Men call women changeable.
They are changeable. fortunately.
for the children Of men. Their de-
sire for a change in diet is RESPONSE
bic for all the grains. vegetables and
fruits that we eat Woman develop
ed them ALL Man would have been
content to gnaw roots and tear raw
flesh until this day