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Show long before with the fingers and It was only necessary to steady the threads on wooden rollers. And this brought about womans share In early art So many plants yielded beautiful-coloreJuices; hence the dyeing, and later, the painting of cloth and skins. Some of these savage adornlngs may be seen at the present day with colors still vivid and with ( attractive designs. And so I might go on through all the industries that have come down to us all suggested by women. The Dark tyinnedWomari s clchievements herself look3 at us out of the past with an impressive silence. Nor tc dwell upon the East Indian woman who, with her seductive charm ant romantic, poetical nature, conquered great conquerors and ruled throug) CONTROVERSY OVER FIGURES them. EXIT WOMEN ANGELS d ible they Played In Early Civilization. by Joseph B. Bowles.) Itlarlan E. Btockton, widow of the late wnular story writer. Frank R. Stockton, closely associated with the work of fitted husband. Any reader of the .Rudder Orange" stories, for example, Ll realize that she was a valuable as Vtant to him. She was joint author with one of his sm In writing "The Home, -- Ho aiij IV iwltki r M. Mrs. Stockton Is a member prominent 8outh Carolina family.) erller books. ! 1 f a been written about races, of Heir part In the making of the of the world, of what they have (one and ought not to have done, of 'shat they are doing and ought not to do and to what they should do, that Dtp it may be of Interest to catch here and ke Here In this worlds history what kt Heir sisters have done Id bringing about the conditions of He life we are now living and the l, religious and geographical distinctions which prevail at present. spot oi Slu It Is not my Intention In thla article to exploit the famous women of recorded history we will lance at them in their proper places. They were types, it Is true, but they ROOT could not have been and have acted if ean their great parts bad not the womeulz en whom they represented been endowed, In some measure, with their ally ec Car St gifts. Such women do not spring from a sordid environment. But and Individual they were exceptional In their careers; and,: after all, it la from the ordinary women of a race or nation that progress comes. ibh; The portraits the ethnologists give on of the primitive woman are not aptlvatlng, but the poets represent lor as being almost divine, floating in ethereal beauty fresh from the hand of her Creator. Whether the scientist hit arrived at the truth through long ind laborious stages of investigation, or whether the poet has divined the truth through Inspiration, I do not pretend to decide. But they are both igreed upon one thing that her comtrue acplexion was of a cording to the latter and of a dark pigment," according to the other. Hr So much of fomen baa the fair-skinn- ed his-.or- y 1 dark-skinne- d so-U- dark-skinn- full-lodg- sun-kiss- the Investigations of science reports of explorers, and from other sources we have a good deal of Information, if not In relation to thla rery primitive woman to her not distant descendants in a state of savagery. And even In the very lowest of these primeval races we find that women played an Important part They were slaves, It is true, because they knew nothing better. If they bad had tbe least glimmering sense of woman's rights they were quite capablo of asserting themselves even at that period of time. And here It may be veil to correct a misapprehension. Men did not make slaves and beasts From ud-h- e burden of their women merely bethe man waa wicked or lazy, or tiei both they had affection (of a sort) durii for their wives. But they realised unit With! with great force that man was a superior being, the lord of tbe earth and MW all it contained. Including woman, and that she waa an afterthought of the for his benefit, and go) created therefore made of very inferior material. Consequently it was considla ered as degrading in a man to do worn-tn- 's work aa It Is now for him to wear tie petticoats. If It chanced that it came Into a man's mind to relieve bla weary wire of some part of the load she was tdC carrying on her back, he would reject noil the thought Instantly, not so much beWni cause he did not want tbe burden, as 8p berauBe by ao doing he would make luh. himself the laughing stock of the tribe. And what did these mighty lords of creation do toward the improvement of the world they claimed? Absolutely nothing! Fishing, hunting, trapping, lighting, the necessities of the presto accomplish ent; the Implements these purposes, and there the record ends. 'Meantime, aa the years went on and generation succeeded generajnu tion, the women were using their brains and Improving aortal life with all aorta of Inventions to assist them In their manifold labors and to add new comforts to a rude existence. Sewing. Consider how patient they must have worked to get a thread from a rawhide and the cleverness of evolving a needle from a bone. Tanning and dressing leather. To turn a dirty, hairy, tough akin Into a clean and soft material suitable for elothlng. Fashioning with deft Angers thla clothing to their special nerds. Agriculture of the simplest sort, but mostly the experiments of vomen. Spinning. The records of the human rare go not back to a time when the aplndln was unknown, worked out from a woman brain which grasped the Idea that the long fibers of the flax aha was cultivating ought In some way to be made mors adapts ble for thread than the unwieldy akin with Its alow and painful process. Hence, the stick twirled In the finger. Weaving. Not a long Journey to the loom after arriving at the aptndle and cloth, so much easier than aklna to work Into clothing. Besides, the birch-bar- k basket weaving bad been done dhi of cause IN Sculptor Borglum Transforms Statues in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine So They Are Neither Man Nor Woman. whether my angels were men or women I could not have told you, and the material side of the question brought so abruptly to my attention was a shock. "What did I do about the new models? Well, In the beginning I absolutely swept aside all question of my making the figures 'men.' I could not consider the question of sex In the production of such work. Making the new design, I went to work on a different basis, and it took me a long time to get what I wanted. "After- - a good deal of thought on made the new design. the subject WITH m ffjppr Copyright: by 1SS7: 'iMLE IY Byron Williams. Per Cent Five Wilkins, he allowed, b gosh, he know a thin er two; Hed show ua all how wine ha wus before tin Kamo wus through. 8a Rill each year would aril his wheat and plant tho aamo In storks. watch 'or boom and 8qjd ho, You folU-j-bring mo In th racks!" He kepi a boantln, lit to kill and buyln all ho could, tnril, tho fort la, William had a lot more Hill G utzon Sculptor Borglum, who furnished the angel figures for the cathedral of St. John the Divine, at New York city, has at last lost out In his contention with the committee than Uo should. that the feminine type is the correct Jlank Beiders, ho wus dKTrrnt made; ho one, notwithstanding the fact that he played tho (puna for safe. showed precedents In the angels of Of rouraa ho wasn't much, nohow he Perguine, of Fra Angelico and of our rum t town a waif own American French, many of which And went t work on Wilkins' farm say twenty year ago. are evidently women. His reverend A savin hers and savin there and Ruin' and learned critics cared nothing for mighty alow. Whenever ho Rot cola ahead ha put It op precedent; all angels were male; the a farm Bible always referred to an angel as I reckon lle per cent.," said he, "Is he;" the very word "angel" was maspurty sufo from harm." culine in all languages In which there are distinctions of gender. Welt, tfnm went on and Bill ha talked a lot shout his stuff. All the world took up the discussion, And luffed at Beiders (We per cent., a and many comments greeted the stern jokin' sorter rough. But Hank, ho never said a word; glat attitude of the reverend and learned kept on sawin wood, critics. But these gentlemen had the A lendin hero an savin thrra an buyln' final word. Mr. Borglum had to make when ha could. his angels over to suit them. When William bragged he'd quit next That Is why the rounded busts ot year an Uve on bonds and rent. Hank Beiders never blinked an rye. but the statues have been hacked pit ; that drew hla five per coni! Is why the waving locks have been cut down; that Is why the soft conThen cum th panic, an It ketched BUI Wilkins loaded high. tours of the faces have been made Th fuat blamed chunk they tuk frum him more angular. near brake him high an dryl "The controversy was absurd," Mr. He put up margins an he turned an' twisted la th fray Borglum declared; "It was so absoThey got him. which la 'mindin me. It lutely ridiculous that I can hardly find aUua Rosa that way! an excuse for speaking of It at all. Now Bill la work In" oa a farm that's "When I made those angels I did a owned by Henry 8 , Whose little live per cent, wus Rood! It piece of work which Involved as much alius Is; 1 Roeas! study, as much serious, heartfelt, conas consideration the and templation By the Way. Never run an account with the milk modeling of a Virgin or other sacred Ttf 3Q&GZ man. He may chalk It up! figure. I endeavored to draw an angel not a man, nor a woman, but an The position of the angels Is not mateNo dear, you cannot bay A political conangel. In modeling these figures I rially changed, but the lines of at a jewelry store. ring 'made what to me expressed the high- tour are. Tbe hair and expression are "The flying machine will make the no of question est, best and most sacred of all Ideals. different, but there Is auto look op to It, anyhow! COMPLAINT 13 NOT NEW. It was to impart to those faces and sex in them. They are angels, and I Railway conductors need not fear forms, as nearly as possible, a sem- could not make them mere men. on their business by encroachment Other Ages Have 8aid "There Is Nc blance to "Aside from the artistic Impossibilwomen. A woman never could get something divine, something Time for Leisure." that when we look at it we feel. Here ity of making a brawny, muscular ready to take tho train out oa time. Is the figure of an angel, bere Is a rep- figure for such a purpose, it would, An Oklahoma editor changed the "Leisure, a woman declared thn resentation in human form of a per- to my mind, be sacrilegious.. form of his newspaper, moved the "As the angels now stand recut, other day, "Is neither a fact nor a pos fect being which has been carried In plant into another building SAd wae slblllty It Is scarcely even an Ideal tbe imagination of man since his they are to me neither men nor married all In one week. ' 'If ' tha It Is a word that in the dlctlonarj brain was capable of comprehension. women they are but angels. I dont woman can keep him going at that should be marked obsolete. It was to me tbe production of an know what they may be to others. rate, watch his smoke! "The figures are changed, of course, Whether or not the majority of peo ideal I had cherished in childhood; It Even the maker of an upright piano but they are by no means the figures ean be square. pie would agree with her In consider was the result of matured Idealiza- . of men. In recutting them I kept my leisure no longer an Ideal, It cat tion. Sleeping cars make strange bed Drifting down the long stream of ing when shocked I was To form, mind on the idea that they must be fellows," says a New York writer. Ab say be not denied a Is rare that leisure brilcome upon the time, we suddenly and contour of face were ob- strong, powerful angels, not gentle, ba! Been sticking your foot out of the liant vision of tbe queen of Sheba. possession In the first decade of thn figure to on the ground that they sympathetic, heavenly figurea. Per- berth again, eh? Out of tbe darkness of tbe dark con- twentieth century. The common the jected too feminine, because there were haps It Is the power that I wished were seems to we be that barterel There fa no use tn lying when keep have ory tinent she emerges, robed In splendor. 'so women angels, and that these must to impart In the recutting and new Ing still and looking vise win answer , Invested with power, endowed with It for telephones and automobiles, fot that marks them and the same purpose. be made to look like men, is but mild- designing wit and fancy, moved by an Intelli- speed and society and business. to with a more masculine them mind. of state stamps Up my ly expressing A wise wumaa will pot take her hue Fifty years ago, we say, or a hun gent curiosity a woman capable of ' moment, . me form. . asked had you that band a hundred or and Sollife shopping. He Invariably spoils it dred, wai fifty, of appreciating not only the glory all by wanting to hay something . omon but bis wisdom also.' She daz- much simpler and less hurried. Yet A friend of mine hsd n fire at his zles ns for a brief moment and then as a matter of fact, a hundred yeari house the other nlghL Ills wife was same the complaint wai disappears Into the darkness whence ago exactly for saving a lot of stuff aad with tbe she came and leaves no trace. But made. It was in 1797 that the famout flsmes roaring at their backs they It require no Imagination- - simply Mrs. Grant, of Laggan, wrote of tha' gathered together a few treasons and common sense to follow her Into that "Insatiable love of change that rest fled. .When they calmed down and which I a of find Is, a nation lessness, great think, mysterious land and women, not so exceptionally endowed, and growing evil of the age, and com POWERS OF NEW YORK CLEARING placed by the associated banka of the took a look at the rescued property plained that the hours of her youm city the absolute and final control they discovered that ha had carried perhaps, as this great queen, hut womHOUSE COMMITTEE. of tbe business of their respective out a muff aha was saving for tbe en of strong character, and vigorous friends were so "engrossed and dl no was fo vtded" washlady, a suit of hla motber-la-law'- a time there with Institutions. that the of dealing Intellect, capable Donbtleas conversation. Otherwise and When the Mercantile National bank union underwear, a stray kitten and reading problems of their time. Action In the Present Finanbunting. to tbe clearing house commit- four yards of Fourth-of-Julthere could have been no queen of could we but look back, we should Arbitrary applied Demon- - ' Has was Which cial Crisis find same thn made in the tee for complaint Sheba. help, this committee, after The wifes share la the rescue strated the Ultimate Triumph rewarded by one of her husband's careful and thorough Investigation, In the twilight of history we note eighth century as In the eighteenth. of Conservatism. So far from leisure being less pos the appearance of a remarkable Asagreed that the assistance desired rubbers, a quilt that lay oa the pile several more should be granted provided that the just next to tbe one that mother made, now aver in slble than the plausibly, or, years, past queen syrian With the clearing of the atmosphere entire board of her successive queens, who were new types age woman, as a recent economic directors, not enly of alx hairpins (which ahe had InmailIn financial recent crisis after the a of the and affilimouth) were catalogue not writer has pointed out, never before the Mercantile, but of several In that olden world. They waa Wall street. New York city, there ated Institutions, should resign, that order furniture store. The loan only successful warriors, but they were had so good an opportunity to enjoj declared archiand e complete! ready-madits president should retire, and that It Gas and electricity, engineers, mathematicians certain officers prominently Identitects. They turned the courses of clothing, prepared foods and number Panto. fied with Its management should virrivers, spanned them with bridges less household Inventions have re Run away, cricket, "hopper and and confined their waters within duced her work to a fraction of tha' tually withdraw from the banking atrsddlebuR! Hide yourselves her nealk tills old field in New York city. These were bounds; they raised great monu- done by her grandmother. Instead o paa! drastic requirements; they were ap- Thererunty ments and built temples and public candle and spinning anc hr a cannibal loom la the stable la weaving, ns meatn the down the edifices. The name Semlramle banking community proved by year's salting yard. a whole, which was well aware that Stuffing himself Just aa fast aa he ean! synonymous with every kind of great- and making her husbands shirts bj the difficulties had been caused by imness. hand, she spends hours each week Ie Do not delay, Ot you grandaddy-epraddle-legproper use at the hands of the directshopping, amusements, study, fancy ors of bank resources. Hurry along and ft mint hurt to pravt Coming down to the Christian era, work or society, according as Incllnn Such an event makes it Interesting There la a Mg turkey cock that will sub-hi- e we find one of the most Interesting tlon and opportunity dictate. you. to ask who these five committeemen Yet she has no leisure. After all studies of womankind of any color or If you should meet before Thanksgivdark-skinnand how their committee came to are does because she Those Is Arabians. not In It the frequently age any ing lay! enjoy any such broad powers. The women, with no possible way not desire leisure so much as shn Just a Few. of house members tbe present clearing of cultivating Intellect, the women of wishes for some other things? The man asked the email boy If The fat T. are: James committee Woodward, an In Is a no' life achievement, of men, race a brutal degrading "simple president of the Hanover National the Ice waa safe and tha lad replied. environment, fenced In with customs a chance gift, and leisure, to quotn bank; William A. Nash, president of "Yea, If you skate fast enough!" Many hOBtlle to them, changed the face of another womans definition, Is "merely the Corn Exchange bank; Dumont a business Unlay Is bolng conducted Com a Youth's founded and time." the art of having the habitable globe Clarke, president of tbe American on the name Inadequate aafeguard. Mohammed himself panlon. great religion! If every day were the Fourth of Exchange; Edward Townsend, prcsl that and often, declared, persistently of and of dent the Traders. July, there soon would be a lot Importers The Rsvolt of Betsy. he would never have been able to them-elve- s Cad-IJaB. Hepburn, president of the Chase dyspeptic antiquarians dragging A. his wife for success but achieve Two-scor- e years ago there lived lo around town growling becauuo National; and with them has acted This plain, faithful, sensible a Pennsylvania town an cou ' Alexander Gilbert, president of the "theres no foa In the world!" woman never faltered In the darkest pie, both aa to size and compatibility of characteristic Duck fa a great Market and Fulton bank, who Is presl hour, encouraging In weakness and The wife was much the larger and a When plucking success these mem days. dent of tbe clearing house and restraining In excesa. And when the stronger, and, in tbe words of their to "git a plenremember officio. ex committee of These ber the good thing, waa tbe accepted by creed he taught narrator, "the husband, though a small men are all veterans In New York ty while yer gittla." Arabs all the women threw themselves man, was a nagger and a pesterer. d "Pet popidea In Paris are now bank finance; their experience has that such energy nothing He always provoked the quarrel, and Into It with an aaya with conbank when pajamas." other covered periods could aland before them. when be went too far his Irate spouse Does tho writer mean dude were even more seriously' disThey even organised companies of would revolt She would retaliate with President of the Hanover National ditions or are doge? turbed than they They women soldiers and. leading them such splendid vigor that the husband Bank, and Chairman of tho ClearInspire confidence In the future of Into battle, fought with a savage cru- would call In the neighbors as ar Little Willie's Philosophy. ing House Commutes. banking In this city In spite of the elty that might have been expected, biters, and when they began to take "Never put off tin termorrer coo of None them ever but also with a heroism most surpris- evidence he would Invariably thus ex stands out sharply the remarkable present stress. la yer pants lerday. a testin' shingle Mohatrmo-do- n gave way to the delusions which af- There's no teilln when maw'll break ing. And all through the I struck Betsy In all part which the clearing house commitmatters: plain and with Wall a It flicted street, large conquest women are prominent; pleasantness and she got mad. or "I tee has played In controlling the sit part of the banking community, st the loose. sometimes like unto the Judicious Can-tjaIn back all down water Betsy's financial a City boys don't have t bug per uatlon and preventing pan time of the great boom of 1901, when sometlmea like the beautiful and poured made hut theya too many houses there her mad. It and carried have would which lc many ter, ft the saying was prevalent on all nan wicked Ayesha, who came near illvld pleasantness tick-tacand do a good clean Job to To the ruin. to banks down average rial markets that we bad reached a Ing the armlea Into hostile camps; IL of name Wanted. the financial Scotsman of affairs followers "new era tn American finance. Banksometimes like the savage Henna "Be good and yew kin Join the SunScotsmen are Immigrants of the of the New York clearing house is as- ers of this class, representing largely drinking the blood of the eoemi nr and they bring abund sociated primarily with the weekly an older generation, were very gener- day achool Jlrt afore Christmas." the faith. It ! all wonderful. And, finest quality, "Opportunity la Ilk a mud turtle the pockets as well as bkuk statement on which brokers sell ally mentioned with something like ant cash in e the Christian woman reads the recdisas cash an as soon or their gotta ketch It while It's a bttln'. ye market suits accumulate the to waa buy financiers and It how the capIndifference by poaalbl begin ord. she marvels "Crackin' nlts with yer teeth is all of Is statement of the annual an Imml and This type position, tains of industry who came to the that ao much good and svtl purpose, they arrive. teeth don't break, raw Jf yec and and as both clearings, balances, exchanges. so much that Is noble and heroic, grant Australasia needs, front of the etage In those brilliant rightft's the same army In blsnees. It get can and offei Australia Zealand other It But the fact that performs could have been expendej with aucb New A somewhat pitying reference due n't pay to he too dum careless more than Canada, we ought and momentous functions has been time. energy on a religion that does not vastly wae aUiut UUu off aioro'n yw kla chow. to old fogy Ideas In banking. a ol see stream to finanrecent or sooner the demonstrated later, during tend In any way to exalt womanhood. Scotsmen with the hardy cial stress. Into the quiet quarters of frequently the most that one could get of the canny I have not space to tell well-linethe clearing house building there from the leading actors of the day, Chinese woman whose story we glean bodies, shrewd brains and the In race of aJUM their setting pockets gathered dally a company of grave-face- d tn the way of comment on the Idea from legends and glimpses Into the men. aa Life. Melbourne of sunk these attitude direction. and had our been hands whose men Into while abe of their histories dynasties It has never been (Copyright, -- II We pass down the centuries and enter, at last, Into our own land to bn Immediately confronted by a dark skinned maiden whose name and history are familiar to every school child. Was there in all this newly discover ed country but one Pocahontas? Shi happened to be the one who fell ) lovt with a white man, and, thus, moved to save from destruction the little white colony, has become Immortalized Whether or not this is to be regardec as a meritorious act on the part of thi Indian maiden depends upon the poln of view, whether that point be In dian or English. But there Is nr doubt that she waa intelligent and at tractive and of a sweet nature a verj loveable creature. If you find a well" molded and decorated vase standlni In the midHt of crude ugly pottery o a past age, you may be reasonably cer tain that a further diligent search wll reveal similar vases. And so, whlln Pocahontas may have been somewha' more highly gifted than the othei young women of her tribe, she was o I their kith and kin and not a solltarj figure. There has arisen no Coopei for the Indian woman. It is probable that the Indian trlber in the east with which the early set tiers were familiar were less cultured than those found on the Pacific coast at a later date. Among these theit women subject and Inferior, of course were of much Importance. They had so Improved the comforts of existence by quite a range of culinary preparations, clothes and blankets for warmth and various devices for Increasing the happiness of their lords, that they had won a position of some dignity and exercised a large and beneficent Influence, not asserted and probably not publicly acknowledged, but In Its effects In civilizing theit race. dark-skinn- -- 10:17 wni'N NEW YORK CHURCH ENDS. H ii By Marlon E. 'Stockton Womans Share in Early Art Even the Primitive Woman Had Brilliant Dark Certain Rights Haired Heroines of the Past Women Aid In Founding a Religion Some Interesting Facts About What Has Been Accomplished by the Sisters of the Pale Faced Races The Important Part fllHJ by the learned whether fire was a direct revelation from God, or whether man discovered it accidentally. In the absence of any authentic Information on the subject I venture the opinion It was discovered by a woman. As she was the one who had the most use for fire It Is reason.,: to suppose that she It was wffo cSanced (In a fit of temper, perhaps) to rub two of her stone knives together with great violence and velocity ani was surprised with tbe divine spark. However this may be, It was woman who Immediately availed herself of this discovery, and being tired of meat and fish dried in the sun, conceived the brilliant idea of laying It on tbe hot coals. And thus she started in a long career down the ages the roasts and ragouts aud chowders and fricandeau that have given pleasure and dyspepsia to millions of her descendants of all colors. There Is literally no end to this branch of tbe subject, but I have said enough to convince any rational mortal that a creature capable of all this could not have been held In utter man. Inby contemporary ferior she was considered, as a matter of course, and she was, to a grejt extent, a commodity to be bought and sold; but, running through all the savagery, there is found a strong thread of respect for women. Even In the lowest tribes they had some rights which they were not at all backward in enforcing; and among the more advanced peoples they had many d rights which no man could In any case take from them. Tie men privately sought their advice to take the council and exploit It as their own wisdom; they were admitted to some of the solemn feasts; and, sometimes, they armed themselves and went to the battlefield. This, however, seems rarely to have oocured in the very early ages. Such was the primitive woman and such were her achievements. decided dark-skinne- d cou-tem- pt e , A GZrrzoAr well-define- dark-skinne- d AUTOCRATS OF BANKS ul soap-makin- ed pro-vlde- to-da- h; k i eaw |