Judge — October 17, 1925 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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Earth's noblest thing, serote Lowell, A necessary evil, natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill, wrote St. Chrysostom a thousand years ago. Saints or Sinners When the Emperor Theophilus jestingly said to one of the beauties of his court, Woman is the source of evil in the world! she quickly replied, Woman is also the cause of much good! Both were right; Joan of Arc and many other saintly, noble, and able women come to mind at once as typical of “earth’s noblest thing, a woman,” who have been the cause of much good. In contrast we have “the deadly fascination and the painted ill” of the daughters of Aphrodite, such as the capricious Venus Victrix whose re- markable beauty enslaved a ruler of proud Castile and whose power over him was so great that sycophant courtiers who attended this favorite at her bath drank of its waters in token of adulation. 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