Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-25
WHAT IS WOMAN?

What is the need of the world today?
Will votes for women dispel it's dismay ?
have bidden
Young Adam to hold when he placed
him in Eden?
To be sure, we all welcome the modern
''She'
With her progress. her talent: are glad
she is free
From the handicaps custom had placed in
her way
Yet we turn longing eyes to her grand
mothers day.
Lest that something God gave when he
first fashioned Eve
Should be lost, with no power in man
kind to retrieve
For many long days has Ewes modern
sister
Matched wits, side by side, with the
up-to-date Mister.
She sits at her desk in the great marts
Of trade
And no phase of big business" has
made her afraid.
Among the professions her laurels she's
won,
And proved she could do what has had
to be DONE
She has teased and eajoled. and told
what she would do
II the presidents job were but handed
And so out of sheer desperation, 1t seems,
The men have consented to sharing the
reins.
And now the world waits to see what will
take place
II like Lord Litton's eye" she will
head new race.
Will the quick pulse Of romance at last
viii the the words W. "wife" and mother"
become obsolete?
Far back in the past, when the world was
yet young.
81, hri h
dure among -, ,,,,,
And gave him dominion Ger all living
things
From the reptile that crept to the bird
that had wings,
And bade him control, with wise guild
ing hand,
Those humber creatures within his
command.
And then. as a crown. to the gifts he had
God gave him Woman. the best gift
'Tis related they happily roamed side by
side
Ere the serpent ambition had tauntcd
Ewes pride
And taught her the lesson to rule a mans
heart,
BY the power OF her love was piuful
part.
That the thing she should do as COM
petent mate
Was to take a firm hand and remodel
his fate.
God had not done enough to have placed
him in care
OF the great infant earth that swung
smiling and fair
That the thing he should do was to
break now the seal
And the knowledge God kept as his
own to reveal
1t seems that she knew just what she
was about
And to get what she sought took the
certainest route,
For she handed him something delicious
And thus brought about mans first
moral defeat.
And proved then and there the sure high
cost of living
The whole human race ever since has
been giving
The sweat of it's brow. yea. it's anguish
of heart
To pay for that meal in which two
took a part. |
Whatever the truth that this fable would
show,
We know It's the key to humanity's
And though woman became the first cause
of its grief
1t was promised through woman should
come its relief.
Oh Woman. the highest and best that
God gave
Has been yours from beginning. From
his birth to the grave
The soul OF the man.child is placed in
your care
To train and to mold it's fair substance
moro fair.
No loftier crown could be placed on your
brow
Than the fair crown OF Motherhood
decking it now.
For the lips that draw life from your
white breast today
And the thoughts theV exprees will be |
your thoughts retold
Rock gently the cradle for what It |
may hold.
In your long line of lives, live each life |
Create not a Karma for which to atone |
For the great cyclic law must be paid |
In the house of my Father. mansions |
many and vast
Each one must be lived in. and perfectly. |
too,
Ere you pass 60 the next that It wait
ing for you.
In your strife to be equal with man. lose
God made You tina. equal at lawning
OF light.
But save YOU that nature through which
best to express
That part of Himself he most wished
TO impress
On His only begotten, the great human
That needs always it's mothers. needs |
You in your place
TO tend the pure fires Of the soul OF the
earth,
While death and rebirth succeed death
and rebirth
Till the soul of mankind o'ercomes dust
and the sod
And stands forth redeemed as the
Christ Of our God.
MRS. EDWIN HoLLIsTER.
Ashland. Neb,