The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 9, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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The Dark
Skinned Woman s
cAchievements
* 'By Mjrion E. Stockton *"
Woman's Share in Early Art—
Even the Primitive Woman Had
Certain •■Rights"—Brilliant Dark
Haired Heroines of the Past—
Women Aid In Founding a Re-
ligion—Some Interesting Facts
About What Has Been Accom-
plished by the Sisters of the Pale
Faced Races The Important Part
they Played In Early Civilization.
V -—■
(Copyright, by Joseph 13. Bowles.)
(Marian* K. Stockton, widow of the late
popular story writer. Frank R. Stockton,
was closely associated with the work of
lier Rifted husband. Any reader of the
■ Rudder Orange" stories, for example,
will reali*e that she was a valuable as-
sistant to him. She was joint author with
Slim In writing "The Home," one of his
earlier books. Mrs. Stockton is a member
of a prominent South Carolina family.)
So much has been written about
women of the fair-skinned races, of
their part in the making of the his-
tory of the world, of what they have
done and ought not to have done, of
what they are doing and ought not to
do and to what they should do, that
it may be of interest to cateh here and
there in this world's history what
their dark-skinned sisters have done
in bringing about the conditions of
the life we are now living and the so-
cial, religious and geographical dic-
tinctions which prevail at present.
It is not my intention in this article
to exploit the famous dark-skinned
women of recorded history—we will
glance at them in tjielr proper places.
They were types, it is true, but they
could not have been and have acted
their great parts had not the wom-
en whom they represented been
endowed, in some measure, with their
Sifts. Such women do not spring full-
fledged from a sordid environment. But
they were exceptional and individual
in their careers; and, after all, it is
from the ordinary women of a race
or nation that progress comes.
The portraits the ethnologists give
us of the primitive woman are not
captivating, but the poets represent
her as being almost divine, floating in
ethereal beauty fresh from the hanil
of her Creator. Whether the scientist
has arrived at the truth through long
and laborious stages of investigation,
or whether the poet has divined the
truth through inspiration, I do not
pretend to decide. But they are both
agreed upon one thing—that her com-
plexion was of a "sun-kissed" hue ac-
cording to the latter and of a "dark
pigment." according to the other. .
, 1.1. .V nnd It was? herself loojes at us out of the past
only Necessary to^teady the threads with an impressive silence. Nor to
only necessary 10 (lweli upon ,he East Indian womun.
°n Jd°thls brought about woman's^ ho. with her seductive charm and
share in early art. So many plants , romantic, poetical nature, conquered
yielded beautiful colored juices; hence great conquerors and ruled through
the dyeing, and later, the painting of them.
cloth and akins. Some of these savag" I
adornings may be seen at the present | We pass down the centuries; and1 en-
dav with polors still vivid and with ter. at last. into our own land to I*
attractive designs. i immediately confronted by a dark-
And so 1 might go on through all [ skinned maiden whose name and hls-
the Industries that have come down tory are familiar to every school
n ija nil snimested by dark-skinned i child.
o en Was there in all this newly discover
j i*l country but one Pocahontas? She
It has never been decided by the happened to be the one who fell In love
learned whether fire was a direct rev with a white man and thu* moved
elation from God. or whether man dis- j to save from destruction the little
•ovcred it accidentally. In the ab-1 white colony, has become immortalized.
htni'sr Things:
Dress
sence of any authentic information
on the subject I venture the opinion it
Whether or not tills is to be regarded
as a meritorious act on the part of tlil-i
was discovered by a dark-skinned : Indian maiden depends upon the point
woman As she was the one who had of view, win,her that point be la-
the most use for fire it U reasona«.> : Han or English. But linn i.
to suppose that she it was cSanced j doubt thai she was Intelligent and at-
(in a fit of temper, perhaps) to rub tractive an I of a sweet nature-a v. >
two of her stone knives together will. ! loveable creature. If you Bnd a weil-
/•
h
From the investigations of science
and the reports of explorers, and from
other sources we have a good deal of
information, if not in relation to this
very primitive woman to her not dis-
tant descendants in a state of sav-
agerjl 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 had
had the least glimmering sense of
woman's rights they were quite capable
of asserting themselves even at that
period of time. And here it may be
well to correct a misapprehension.
Men did not make slaves and beasts
of burden of their women merely be-
t-use the man was wicked or lazy, or
K>.th—they had affection (of a sort I
for their wives. But they realized
with great force that man was a su-
perior being, the lord of the earth and
all it contained, including woman, and
that she was an afterthought of the
gods created for his b neflt, and
therefore made of very Inferior ma-
terial. Consequently it was consid-
ered as degrading in a man to do wom-
en's work as it is now for him to wear
petticoats.. If it chanced that it came
into a man's mind to rfelieve his weary
wife of some part of the load she was
carrying on her back, he would reject
the thought instantly, not so much be-
cause he did not want the burden, as
because by so doing he would make
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,
fighting, the necessities of the pres-
ent; the implements to accomplish
these purposes, and there the record
ends. Meantime, as the years went
on and generation succeeded genera-
tion, the women were using their
brains and improving social life with
all sorts of inventions to assist them
iti 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. Tan-
ning and dressing leather. To turn
n dirty, hairy, tough skin into a
clean and soft material suitable for
clothing. Fashioning with deft fin-
gers this clothing to their special
neads. Agriculture of the simplest
sort, but mostly the experiments of
women. Spinning. The records of the
human race go not back to a time
■w hen the spindle was unknown, worked
out from a woman's brain which
grasped the Idea that the long fibers
of the fla* she wa3 cultivating ought
In some way to be made more adapta-
ble for thread than the unwieldy skin
with its slow and painful process.
Hence, the stick twirled in the fingers.
Weaving. Not a long journey to the
loom after arriving at the spindle and
cloth, so much easier than skins to
work into clothing. Besides, the birch-
bark basket weaving had been done
great violence and velocity and was
surprised with the divine spark.
However this may bo, it was woman
who immediately availed herself of
this all-important discovery, and being
tired of meat and fish dried in the
sun, conceived the brilliant idea of
laying it on the hot coals. And thus
she started in a long career down the
ages the roasts and ragouts and chov -
ders and fricandeaus that have given
pleasure and dyspepsia to millions of
her descendants of all colors.
There is literally no end to this
branch of the subject, but 1 have said
enough to convince any rational mor-
tal that a creature capable of all this
could not have been held in 'utter con-
tempt by contemporary man. In-
ferior she was considered, as a matter
of course, and she was, to a great ex-
tent, 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 back-
ward in enforcing; and among the
more advanced peoples they had many
well-defined rights which no man
could in any case take from them.
The men privately sought their advice
| to take the council and exploit it as
' their own wisdom; they were admit-
ted to some of the solemn feasts, and.
sometimes, they armed themselves and
went to the battlefield. This, however,
seems rarely to have occured in the
very early ages.
Such was the dark-skinned primitive
woman and such were her achieve-
ments.
Drifting edrwn the long stream of
time, we suddenly come upon the bril-
liant vision of the queen of Sheba.
Out of the darkness of the dark con-
tinent she en «rges, robed in splendot,
invested wit'i power, endowed with
wit and fancy, moved by an intelli-
gent curiosit y—a woman capable of
appreciating not only the glory of Sol-
omon but hi i wisdom also. She daz-
zles us for a brief moment and then
disappears into the darkness whence
she came and leaves no trace. But
it requires no imagination simpl)
common sense—to follow her into that
mysterious laud and find a nation of
women, not so exceptionally endowed,
perhaps, as this great queen, but wom-
en of strong character, and vigorous
intellect, capable of dealing with the
problems of their time. Otherwise
there could have been no queen of
Sheba.
In the twilight 'of history we note
the appearance of a remarkable As-
syrian queen or, more plausibly, several
successive queens, who were new typjs
in that -olden world. They were not
only successful warriors, but they were
engineers, mathematicians and archi-
tects. They turned the courses of
rivers, spanned yiem with bridg s
and confined their waters within
bounds; they raised great monu-
ments and built temples and public
edifices. The name Semiramis is
synonymous with every ltind of great-
ness.
molded and decorated vase standing
in the midst of crude ugly pottery of
a past age. you may he reasonably cer
tain that a further diligent search will
reveal similar vases. And so, while
Pocahontas may have been somewhat
more highly gifted than the other
young women of her tribe, she was of
their kith and kin and not a solitary
figure. There has arisen no Cooper
for the Indian woman.
It is probable that the Indian tribes
in the cast with which the early set-
tlers were familiar were less cultured
than those found on the Pacific coast
at a later date. Among these their
women—-subject and inferior, of course
were of much importance. They hail
so improved the comforts of existence
by quite a range of culinary prepara-
tions, 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 hen?tlcent influ-
ence, not asserted and probably not
publicly acknowledged, but far-readi-
ing in Its effects in civilizing their
race.
COMPLAINT IS NOT NEW.
Other Ages Have Said "There Is No
Tims for Leisure."
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f.
THIS SWINDLER
Coming down to the Christian era,
we find one of the most interesting
studies of womankind of any color or
any age in the Arabians. Those dark-
skinned wojnen. with no possible way
or cultivating intellect, the women of
a brutal race of men. in a degrading
environment, fenced in with customs
hostile to them, changed the face of
the habitable globe and founded a
great religion! Mohammed himself
declared, persistently and often, that
he would never have been able^ to
achieve success but for his wife Cad-
ijah. This plain, faithful, sensible
woman never faltered in the darkest
hour, encouraging in weakness and
restraining in excess. And when the
creed he taught was accepted by the
Arabs all the women threw themselves
into it with such energy that nothing
could stand before them.
They even organized companies of
women soldiers and, leading them
into battle, fought with a savage cru-
elty that might have been expected
but also with a heroism most surpris
"Leisure," a woman declared the
other day, "is neither a fact nor a pos
sibility—it is scarcely even an .ideal.
It is a word that in the dictionary
should be marked obsolete."
Whether or not the majority of peo-
ple would agree with her in consider-
ing leisure no longer an ideal, it can
not be denied that leisure is a rare
possession in the first decade of the
twentieth century. The common the-
ory seems to be that we have bartered
it for telephones and automobiles, for
speed and society and business.
Fifty years ago, we say, or a hun-
dred, or a hundred and fifty, life was
much simpler and less hurried Yet,
as a matter of fact, a hundred years
ago exactly the same complaint was
made. It was in 1797 that the famous
Mrs. Grant, of Laggan, wrote or that
"insatiable love of change—that rest-
lessness, which is, I think, a great
and growing evil of the age," and com-
plained that the hours of her young
friends were so "engrossed and di
vided" that there was no time for
reading and conversation. Doubtless,
could we but lock back, we should
find the same complaint made in the
eighth century as in the eighteenth.
So far from leisure being less pos-
sible now than in pa3t years, the aver-
age woman, as a recent economic
writer has pointed out, never before
had so good an opportunity to enjoy
it. Gas and electricity, ready-made
clothing, prepared foods and number-
less household inventions have re-
duced her work to a fraction of that
done by her grandmother. Instead of
candle and soap-making, spinning and
weaving, salting down the year's meats
and making her husband's shirts by
hand, she spends hours each week in
shopping, amusements, study, fancy
work or society, according as inclina-
tion and opportunity dictate.
Yet—she has no leisure. After all,
Is it not frequently because she does
not desire leisure so much as she
wishes for some other things? The
"simple life" is an achievement, not
a chance gift, and leisure, to quote
another woman's definition, is "merely
the art of having time."—Youth's Ccn-
panion.
There Is nothing new under
the sun. unless it is in dress,
and woman—that Is. fashionable
woman — is constantly on the
qui vive to catch the latest hints of
fashion, and to accommodate them to
her peculiar needs and her pocketbook.
Perhaps the newest novelty for the
winter season is the "BeHti Brummel'
tie. It was first introduced across the
water, and was instantly taken Into
feminine and fashionable favor with
an enthusiasm easily to be understood
—and certain to be shared when once
you see for yourself just how conveni-
ent and how charming it is. So as such
knowledge will increase both your
comfort and your smartness this win-
ter we show above the faithful por-
trait of the new tie for all to study
and admire, and I may tell you that its
fastening is most simply and success-
fully effected by the mere passing of
one end through a loop of the fur,
while by the same means it can be ad-
justed to fit the neck as closely and
cosily as you will, ll is indeed a won-
derfully protective little affair, and
will be a most welcome addition to
the collariess coats which continue su-
preme in fashion's favor, while then
according to your mood of the moment
or the style of your accompanying
headgear you can either let its ends
be piquantlv poised at one side or
more demurely folded in front, the
charm of variety being thereby added
to its account.
The more "dressy" tailor-made coats
are for the most part of half-length or
to the ankles. Very few short ones are
seen in cloth or serge, though there
are exceptions made in fur sacques
and boleros; in fact, at any minute
the little sacque coats may be re-
vided, but for the moment let us con-
tent ourselves with the long graceful
semi-fitting coats which are so becom-
ing to most of womankind.
In our illustration we show one of
the latest tailor-mades. As can be
striped material is cut in different
ways so as to supply their own trim-
ming, as for instance is seen on the
the skirt. Bands of plain cloth in har-
monizing color and a lace yoke com-
plete the design. The bat is of white
relt with fancy plume.
As for the newest things in millinery
we show below two very pretty but In
PITTSBURG SOCIETY FOLK ARE
VICTIMS OF ALLEGED RE-
MARKABLE CROOK.
WIFE IS DAUGHTER OF LORD
Said He Sold Her "Salted" Mine and
Abandoned Her to Zulus—Planned
to Organize Kingdom with
Himself as Chief.
Pittsburg—A career more ei-
traordlnary than half the villiati-, of
fiction is charged against Reginald
Spaulding, or Oscar F. Spate, or
George Frederick Spate, the man who
proposed to Introduce Pittsburg peo-
ple of wealth at the court of St.
.lames In exchange for PlUsburg
money.
Pittsburgers who wined and dined
Spaulding a few days ago will be hor-
rified when they learn that he is said
to have been a convict in South Af-
rica, but they can take some consola-
tion out of another report that he Is
a son-in-law of Lady Suffleld, the wom-
an who, he asserted, would bring about
the Introductions at. the court of St.
James. It is charged against the pris-
oner that he sold his noble wife a
•salted" mine and then abandoned her
in the interior of South Africa
The Pittsburg police received a let-
ter from Inspector McCafferty of the
New York police department containing
a report which one of the N'ew York
detectives made on Spaulding. The
report follows.
"Spate is the same man whom I met
in Cape Town. South Africa, at the
Mount Nelson hotel. He advertised
there for men to act as agents for the
American Trading company. They
were to go into the interior of South
Africa ami collect hides and ivory
from the natives, which they were to
ship to various points. These agent*
were required to deposit JlIOO in
money to secure the position.
"He collected the amount from
many young men This was in March,
1903 He wan arrested while boarding
the steamer Waliner Castle for Eng-
land. He was convicted and served
for two years in the government
The Revolt of Betsy.
Two-score years ago there lived in
a Pennsylvania town an ill-mated cou-
ple, both as to size and compatibility.
The wife was much the larger and
stronger, and, in the words of the'.r
narrator, "the husband, though a small
man, was a nagger and a pesterer."
He always provoked the quarrel, and
when he went too far his irate spouse
would revolt. She would retaliate with
such splendid visor that the husband
would call in the neighbors as ar
biters, and when they began to taki
readily seen it is of the most graceful
design of the very latest and most
fashion-favored coat and skirt cos-
tume. It is made up in fine face cloth,
which comes in all the newest shad
ings, and is finished in a most effective
device in broad and silky braid. Its
exceeding smartness is too obvious to
need comment, but the long, graceful
lines of the coat and the full skirt
will be found very becomitm to most
figures.
In our other single column picture
we show the latest treatment of the
popular stripes. In this costume the
NEWEST TREATMENT Or
JWlPEcJ
expensive hats. One of the twain is
made in cinnamon brown satin brim,
soft full crown in chine silk, finished
off with the chou of cinnamon satin
and the new ostrich* mount. This is a
hat which can be worn with any cos
tume and can be made in any coloi
desired, and made in black satin un
(leili'ied with velvet would be very
striking.
The second hat shown in tile illus-
tration is of an equally dainty crea
tion. It is made in a dead shade of
mattve satin underlined in velvet in a
darker color with a charming wreath
of two shades in velvet flowers fast-
ened in front with a bunch of deep
rich cerise silk roses. This lovely hat
would go well with a rather colorless
gown. It can lie made In all colors, and
would have a very smart effect.
"Death!" I would cry most gladly
to the cloche hat, though I would by
no means banish from recognition the
mushroom hat which was the orig-
inal germ of these modish monstrosi-
ties, which have already exceeded all
the bounds of good taste, to say noth-
ing of common sense, upon which i
should be sorry to insist as a pivot
for fashion; but, again I repeat, the
mushroom hats by ail means.
These are made in felt or beaver,
wreathed with autumn leaves, or
trimmed with colored velvet choux.
They are easily achieved at home,
these choux. Only select the colors
which contrast well, and buy three-
eighths of a yard of velvet on the
cross, each of three different shades,
gather them round together at the
back, place them on the hat. and in-
dent them with your finger wherever
you think likely to look well. The
more carelessly this is done the bet-
ter the ^ffect.
C^ie hat which was made alter the
above directions was of a dark purple,
and the three colors were peacock
blue, sage green and heliotrope. The
hat was of the mushroom shape.
W2
, IJIU.TB, ant' « «*-.
"un | evidence he would invariably thus .
ing. And all through the Mohair:m- n nmtters: | st,-Uck Betsy in a.
dan conquest women are prominent, • loasalltness and she got mad," or "
sometimes like unto the Judlciona ...:n ( ure(j water down Betsy's back in a!
ijah; sometimes like the beautiful am j ,eagantnegs and it made her mad." >
wicked Ayesha, who came near (livid
mg the armies Into hostile enmn.; 3=0tsmen Wanted.
«nm( times like the savage Henna .
ffss "n rt-issr^! V-1
Zvssssrsz assy* —f,rr" rI
that so much good and evil purpose, they arrive. Th s is the type of imm j
so much that is noble and heroic, grant Australasia needs, and as bol).
could have been expended with such | New Zealand and Australia can offer
energy on a religion that does not vastly more than Canada, we ought
tend fn any way to exalt womanhood.! sooner or later, to see a stream ol
I five not space to tell of the | canny Scotsmen with the hard
Chinese woman whose story we glean bodies, shrewd brains and the we 1
from legends and glimpses into the lined pockets o their race setting ii
histories of their dynasties, while she our direction.—Melbourne Life.
He Deserted His Wife in the Land of
the Zulu.
prison. He was also at Johannesburg,
South Africa, and tried to secure a
franchise from the park commission-
ers to put benches in Joubert park,
but was refused.''
Simultaneously with this report, a
communication reached the Pittsburg
police from a source which they will
not divulge to the effect that Spauld-
ing under the name of George Fred-
erick Spate in 1902, was married to
Muriel, daughter of Lord and Lady
Suflield, who left her home in London
because of a difference with her par-
ents, and went to South Africa during
the Boer war as a Red Cross nurse,
in consequence her parents disowned
her, and her name was removed from
the records of the British nobility.
It is claimed Spate is a younger son
of a noble English family.
He secured a subaltern berth in the
English army and fought in South Af-
rica dotting the Boer war.
It was while he was wandering
about South Africa that he Is alleged
to have married the daughter of Lord
and Lady Suffleld Spate Is alleged to
have Interested his wife in a diamond
mine which he had "salted" and final-
ly sold the mine to her and some
others for a large sum.
Before the discovery was made that
the mine was salted," Spate is said
to have taken his wife into the interior
of Africa, where he deserted her in
the land of the Zulu chief, Mosilikaps.
He returned to Johannesburg, where
he circulated a story to the effect that
his wife had been killed by the na-
tives. Spate then started to organize
a new Zulu kingdom, with himself as
chief, with the purported object of
going into the land of Mosilikaps and
avenging the death of his wife. Just
about this time, however, the woman
appeared at Johannesburg.
NEW rioDtd m mijsiNZ&Y ^
Novel Experiment on Birds.
A bird dealer In Paris raises ca-
naries of an orange-red tint by feed-
ing the parent birds on cayenue pep-
per. In time he expects that the eggs
will produce birds of a bright red hut*
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