Show HOW SHE H HAPPENED C II IIChi Chicago Chi a i j I We o 0 are favored favol by b one df of t OUr learned tl friends with the following account of ot the Creation cItation of It t is translated t from I all alt old Sanskrit book entitled The Burg tug big of the Ocean Oce n of Time V WOMAN Tradition Says Sas There Was is a Scarcity of Solid Elements at the Time of or Her Cre Creation Creation At the beginning of time the VUlcan of o the Hindu mythology created the Ilie th world worM But when he wished to create I a woman he found that he had employed j jaU I aU alt his material in the creation of man ma I There did not remain one ont solid element II j Then perplexed fell into a n pro j fund meditation He lIe roused himself I as i follows j He Be took the roundness of the moon the thc t undulations of the serpent tin the entwining o or of climbing plants the trembling of Or o the grass the slenderness of or the rose roc vine ine and the velvet elet of the flower the lightness of i the thc leaf and the glance of the fawn the thega gayety ga ct of f the rays tas and ln tears of the mist the inconstancy of the wind and nd the timidity of the hare the vanity of the I peacock and the softness of the down own on the throat of the swallow the hardness of the dl diamond the sweet swOOt flavor of honey h ne fOld and tl ld the cruelty of the tiger the warmth of or fire the cool of snow the chatter chau r of the theja jay ja and the cooing co ing of the thO th turtledove He united all these t ese and formed d a woman I Then he hC made a present of her ncr to man Eight lays days later the man came caine to and lIl said paid My h lord the creature you OU gave me mc poisons my existence She chatters with without without out ou rest she ale takes all my time Sue she h la Ia laments laments ments for nothing at all and is always ill illAnd And received the thc woman again But eight days later the th man came again to the god and said My Iy lord lor my ray life is very solitary since t I i returned this creature 1 I remember she shel glanced l at mo me m from the th corner of her eye ee and she played with me mc clung to me And returned the woman to i him W I Throe Three days only r ed and saw tho the man ag in My M Lord said lie Ite he I do lIe not under understand understand stand exactly how hit I ant am sure stir i te the wo we woman woman weman man causes m pre annoyance than of oU to relieve me of f fh h er V Bu cried Go your our way wa and antI do 60 man cried I 1 with Uh her V Neither can you OU live without her re replied replied plied piled And the man mail was sorrowful I murmur murmurIng murmuring In Ing Woo Woe oc is me I can neither live with her nor without uth her r n |