WHY EVE DID NOT KEEP A GIRL.

Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 6, 1 March 1884, Page 10

WHY EVE DID NOT KEEP A GIRL.

A Lady writer furnishes some of the reasons why Eve did not keep a hired girl. She says : There has been a great deal said about the faults of women, and they need so much waiting on. Some one (a man of course) has the presumption to ask—why, when Eve was manufactured of a spare rib, a servant was not made to wait upon her?” She didn’t need an}'. A bright writer has said, Adam never came whining to Eve with a ragged stocking to be darned, buttons to be sewed on, gloves to be mended “ right away —quick now!” Because he never read the newspapers till the sun went down behind the palm trees, and he stretching himself, yawned out, “ Isn’t supper ready, my dear?” Not he. He made the fire and hung the kettle over it himself, we’ll venture, and pulled the radishes, peeled the potatoes, and did everything else he ought to do. He milked the cows, fed the chickens, and looked after the pigs himself, and never brought half a dozen friends to dinner when Eve hadn’t any fresh pomegranates, lie never stayed out till 11 o'clock at night, and then scolded because poor Eve was sitting up and crying inside the gates. Fie never loafed around the corner groceries while Eve was at home rocking little Cain's cradle. He did not call Eve up from the cellar to get his slippers and put them in the corner where he left them. Not he. When he took them off he put them under the big fig tree besides his Sunday boots. In short, he did not think she was especially created to wait on him, and he wasn’t under the impression that it degraded a man to lighten a wife’s cares a little. That’s the reason Eve did not need a hired girl, and with it was the reason her descendants did.

“ Do you ever think what you would do if you had the Duke of Westminster’s income ?” Village pastor : “ No, but I've sometimes wondered what the Duke would do if he had mine.”