Year: 1874

MOUTH, OHIO.


Long ago. when this beautiful world of
ours was first moulded into form by the
hand of the Infinite; when the grand
old hills, covered with their primeval
forests, were, from the face of the deep,
| like mighty giants. witnessing the gath
ering of the waters into oceans. seas,
| lakes, rivers and brooklets; when valley
| and dale first brought forth their suceu-
lent grasses and delicately shaded flowers;
/ while light gushed forth from the voice
of God, radient with JOY sof the morning
! He planted in Eden garden filled with
| the choicest fruits, the sweetest flowers
and supplied with the pure waters
of the river Eden. Man was created and
placed in the garden to cultivate it.
"StiII the world was all a waste,
The garden all wild,


And man a hermit ~at,


Il iii woman smiled"


The curious have racked their brains
great deal to learn why the Infiute
made woman out of rib, the crookedest
bone in the human body.


cynical old bachelor of much learn
ing says woman was made of rib by vir-
tue of necessity. That she was to be
creature SO set in her ways, so perverse
by nature, that it would have been i'm
possible even for the Infinite to have
round or straight.


disciple of the philosopher Zeno, re-
turning from the funeral OF his fifth wife,
called upon his friends to participate in
banquet with him, where, over glass
of wine he declared he was enabled to
solve the enigma of woman's creation
rom rib. Discoursing at length upon
the physical contour of the chest he in.
sisted that the loss of rib or two neither
detracted from its symmetry nor impaired
the usefulness, or vitality of its internal
organs. And since the ribs had taken
on the form of a woman, the loss OF it,
was OF still less consequence, since it
could be so easily replaced.


However comforting such philosophy
might be to a widower, | do not believe
it ever will become very popular with
wives.


gallant Troubedour. pensively WOO
ing his lady-love with his heart trem-
bling on its strings while he touched his
guitar, was heard to exclaim with more
prose than poetry. "Oh. woman. beauti
ful creation from man, thou vast made
from rib because it sticks the closest of
any bone in the human body to the
heart.


The late Horace Mann said that woman
was made of rib because she was des-
tined to spend money, and for conven-
Ience sake she was taken from some
where close about where he carried his
pocket-book


If did not know what she was made
OF, and was told she had her origin from
some individual bone of the human BODY.
and was required to guess, with what
little knowledge l have of woman, the
first guess should make would he h.
because she knows just exactly how to
get around a man, and to use a slang
| phrase, to so nicely take him in.
| She was created a hell meet for man :;
IA subsequent creation to man. God saw
that it was not good for man to be alone
But the object of the creation of woman
was not simply to keep man from being
alone had it been So why not have crea-
ted two men a.? or a dozen it was a gold
en- strand to bind him more closely to
his Creator, not as a servant. not as
drudge, not as a help-meet, simply to
SOW his fields and garner his grain, to
keep clean his house and make ready his
food, not simply to bear and rear his
children, but lever to control and
! keep down the bad impulses of man, and
to quicken and bring out the good.


The poet Burns would have US infer
that God protited by experience:


"That he tried His prentice hand on man,


ANA then he made the lasses Oh!'


He would not have been very far from
the truth had he said


Then perfect made the Iasses, Oh.


We cannot draw parallel between the
scenes without being forced to the con-
! clusion that woman was cast in finer
mould and tempered with a finer breath.


The first history we have of her we
must admit is little damaging as it is
generally received. But, upon closely
reading the history we find a very
plausible excuse for Ewes eating the for
oldden fruit, while there is no rational
excuse for Adams partaking of it. We
have no proof that God ever said to our
mother Eve, thou shalt not eat of the
tree Of knowledge, of good and evil, or
that he ever gave her the slightest eau
tion or warning about it. We find in
the II verse of the I'd chapter OF Genesis
these words are recorded as spoken by
the Lord to Adam: But of the tree oil
knowledge, of good and evil, thou shalt
not eat of it: for in the day that thou
:. eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Now, these words were spoken before
woman had an existence, and nowhere
within Gods sacred oracles, do We lind
proof that this warming was ever given
20 Eve by God himself. or even to Adam


n Ewes presence. l have no doubt


rom her own admissions to the serpent
shat Adam had told her about it in some


sort of way Most likely in the same


manner good many business men make


onfidants of their wives in relation tt


heir business affairs now a-days, by Civ


ng them a vague idea of their wealth, o


heir resources, of their probable specu


ations, etc, all the while initiating thei