The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1919-05-01


for debate at the Chesterfield High
School, is printed by request. lle
The subject under discussion is:
Resolved, That the mind of Woman
is Inferior to that of Man." Miss
Hildreth presents the negative side.
In the very beginning God made
man of dirt, while he dealt more gent
iy with woman, making her, not of
common clay, but of one of this
mans ribs. This first man and wcm-
an, namely Adam and Eve, in the
Garden of Eden, give us an oppor-
unity to compare the minds of man
and woman. In the resistance to
temptation woman proved to be the
stronger of the two for it took the
very old devil himself to cause Eve
to do wrong, while Adam was influ-
cnced by only woman.
Favilia, the wife of Anthony, di-
rected his troops for him at home in
such a way that victory was theirs
while the supposed ruler was away,
making love to Cleopatra. But then
we can't blame him for this, because
greater men than he had been charm
ed by this charming and strong-mind-
ed woman of the East.
God directed Joan of Arc, and gave
to her vision through which he di-
rected her to lead the army to vic
tory. l wonder why God did not in
trust this great mission to some
young man.
The countries that have been so
fortunate as to have women rulers
have never been so prosperous as
when the women were ruling. Take,
for instance, the reigns of Queen
Elizabeth and Queen Victoria, of
England. Both these cras were mark
ed because of the advancement in
political, religious and social reforms.
Some of the women rulers most not
ed for their conquests in battle and
in the management of their countries
during war times were Maria The
resa, of Austria, and Catherine the
Second, of Prussia.
Not having a hereditory form of
government, nor national suffrage,
we have not had any women rulers
ir this country, but we have had
wives of some of our Presidents who,
If given the opportunity, would prob
ably have been as good or better rul-
ers as the Presidents themselves.
Take, for instance, Dolly Madison,
who, in critical moment, saved some
valuable papers and a portrait of
George Washington for her country,
while her husband, ran, not thinking
of saving anything but himself.
Flora Mcdonald, North Carolina
woman, showed she was capable of
thinking and acting quickly in an
emergency, by riding twenty miles on
horse back one dark night to warn
our soldiers that the enemy was COM
ing. If it had been a man he prob
ably would have reasoned that they
could find out for themselves, or that
they were already prepared and thus
quoting his conscience, would have
retired to haystack for safety. OF
course we are just surmising this and
1t might not have happened, but, well,
anyway it was a woman and not a
man who carried the news.
In the literary world and the world
of dramatic arts women have been
Just as erudite as men, a few of
which are George Elliott, Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Louise M. Alcott and
Mrs. Browning, while Sarah Bern
hart, of the drama. has been COM
pared with Napoleon by a famous
critic of to-day.
We have good many important
inventions made by women, a few
of which are: A woman invented the
spinnirg wheel; woman discovered
the uses of the silkworm; a woman
was the inventor of bronze decora-
ton; it was a woman who invented
most of the improvements in the
mower and reaper; little girl in
vented the gimlet-pointed screw; a
woman invented the deep-sea telc-
scope; a woman invented the street
sweeper used in our cities.
Perhaps we have not quite as many
women inventors as men, but as
Adam Clark very truly said, zone
woman is equal to seven and half
men,"
President Wilson, and he is ac-
knowledged to be the greatest man
today, said that as the women were
taking leading part in all important
matters of to-day, that he thought
there should be some women present
at the Peace Conference. Several
women have already gone from the
United States. one of whom is Miss