{"id":7894,"date":"2022-01-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7894"},"modified":"2022-01-21T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T06:00:00","slug":"woman-the-inferior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/woman-the-inferior\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman the Inferior"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Rock Island Argus, January 21, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Henry Howland.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWoman is nearer the savage state than man. Her only function is to bear children.\u201d \u2014Professor Sargent of Harvard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is nothing but a woman with a voice that\u2019s soft and sweet,
Making sacred all she touches, e\u2019en the dust beneath her feet,
With a laugh that\u2019s sweetest music and a sigh that\u2019s sweeter yet,
With a look that makes you wonder and remember and forget\u2014
    Just a woman who is pure,
    With a faith serene and sure\u2014
Who has made you somewhat better since the moment when you met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is nothing but a woman, of a lower type than man,
Her development restricted, fashioned on a poorer plan;
Learning little as the ages and the aeons roll away,
Made to serve a single purpose and remain unthinking clay;
    Just a woman in whose eyes
    All that\u2019s true and tender lies,
Just a woman claiming graces as angels only may.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is nothing but a woman who when days of trouble come\u2014
When the friends of fairer moments turn their faces and are dumb\u2014
Hovers near with tender glances and with words that soothe and cheer
Just a woman, hoping bravely when you weakly yield to fear;
    Just a woman clinging fast
    To the love that, at the last,
Shall become your sweet salvation, as the farther shores appear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Rock Island Argus, January 21, 1914. By Henry Howland. \u201cWoman is nearer the savage state than man. Her only function is to bear children.\u201d \u2014Professor Sargent of Harvard. She is nothing but a woman with a voice that\u2019s soft and sweet,Making sacred all she touches, e\u2019en the dust beneath her feet,With a laugh […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-7894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-henry-howland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}