Life — December 8, 1910 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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1066 Some Advantages Which Eve Enjoyed WW HEN Adam told her she was the only woman in the world, it was true. When he declared her the only girl he had ever loved, she really could believe it—though that Lilith woman— Of course, this was in Paradise. He wasn’t much as to style, but really did need some one to look after him, so she said “Yes,” and the world began for them as for every married pair since. They were suburbanites, quite devoted to country life, During the first years of their marriage, they had no bother with servants. The baboons waited on table and helped with the dishes. Electric bells had not been invented, so when Eve took a bath and dressed for the afternoon, ske did not have to “ WHERE DID YOU CAPTURE YOUR NEW WIFE? '? “1 STOLE INTO THE ENEMY’S CAMP BY NIGHT, T SEIZED HER RY MEK MAIR, FLUNG HER OVER MY SHOULDER AND SPED AWAY IN THE DARKNESS “DID SME MAKE ANY OUTCRY?" “ONCE. WIEN 1 GRARBED HER SITE EXCLAIMED, ‘THIS 18 SO supprn!"** THE FIRST FAMILY TREE skurry down stairs to answer the rings of two book agents, three rug peddlers and the fishman, in the first ten minutes, besides declining the neighbor's telephoned invitation to ride over that evening in the auto and play bridge. French fashions being yet in the future, dress patterns and Mrs. Jones’s new bonnet did not worry her. Her first efforts at costuming were a little crude, but later she wore coats of fur or sheepskin, the forerunners of the Parisienne’s Persian lamb wrap of to-day. She never suffered from nerves; her children did not catch the measles at school, nor worry her playing hookey. The furnace did not go out nor the iceman forget her. Monthly bills, water rates and taxes were things unknown. Soap not yet having arrived and Adam preferring negligées to boiled shirts, she had little laundry work to do. He did not stay out ¢ at the lodge and she belonged to no literary clubs. Alto- gether, what a restful lot was hers, compared to these strenu- ous days, In the scheme of creation the lower animals appeared first. Besides being the newest thing, consequently the highest type, and the only woman whose name is told for centuries, she must have been bright and progressive, in advance of her time. It took the devil himself to tempt her, and then neither wealth nor powcr, but the desire for knowledge, appealed to her. The masculine element, apparently not alert enough to seck it him- self, meekly and quite willingly followed his wife’s lead, and some of him, dear brethren, are doing that yet Adam’s endcavor to dodge the blame and Cain’s character- istic query about his brother's keeper, snowed that in those days boys took after their father. The girls probably re- sembled their mother. She wished to be wise, with the knowl- edge of good and evil, and to know all about the neighbors and her daughters have been just like her ever since. Her efforts to attain knowledge brought death into the world—also labor—so that man had to get up and hustle. For this she has been denounced as bringer of the curse by not overly industrious laymen and priests these thousands of years. Yet, nowadays, lives are cheerfully sacrificed every day in the pursuit of knowledge, and almost everybody does some work. Eve was so ultra modern in so many ways. Anyway, but for her, w a stupidly crowded place th: world would have been by this time, and what hosts of po tired humans have thus passed out Cc. 0. comicbooks.com