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MALAY SKETCHES

The ideal woman, the product of higher educa-
tion and deep research in divers subjects, supplies
the real clue to the phenomenon, for, when asked
"
where the true Spirit of God is," she modestly
" We
replies, I can tell you : it is in us women.
have preserved it and handed it down from one
generation to another of our own sex unsullied."*
Doubtless from the time when the Spirit moved
upon the face of the waters, and, later, on the Sea
of Galilee; but it is more difficult to understand how
has handed down from
woman, unaided, anything
one generation to another.
The same idea is, however, more happily con-
veyed in the injunction of the President of the
Woman's to her
Scraggsville Suffrage League
husband, when ordering him to go and purchase a
divided skirt. "If you are afraid, pray to God for
courage ; She will help you."
The mere male has his uses, one of which is to
assist the unsullied sex to perpetuate the Spirit of
God, and another to be within hail when there are
crocodiles about.
*
"The Heavenly Twins," book iii., chap. iii.

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