The Reason Why.
Can anybody tell why, when Eve was manufactured from one of Adam’s ribs, a hired girl wasn’t made at the same time to wait on her?
We can, easily. Because Adam never came whining to Eve with a ragged stocking to be darned, a collar button to be sewed on, or a glove to be mended “right away quick now.” Because he never read the newspaper until the sun got down behind the palm trees, and then stretched himself, yawning out, “Ain’t supper most ready, my dear.” Not he. He made the fire and hung over it the tea-kettle himself we’ll venture, and pulled the radishes and peeled the bananas, and did everything else that he ought to. He milked the cows and fed the chickens and looked after the pigs himself. He never brought home half a dozen friends to dinner when Eve hadn’t any fresh pomegranates and the mango season was over. He never stayed out until 11 o’clock to a ward meeting, hurrahing for the out-and-out candidate, and then scolded because poor Eve was sitting up and crying inside the gates. To be sure he acted rather cowardly about the apple-gathering time, but that don’t depreciate his general helpfulness about the garden! He never played billiards, nor drove fast horses, nor choked Eve with cigar-smoke. He never loafed around corner groceries while solitary Eve was rocking little Cain’s cradle at home. In short, he did not think she was specially created for the purpose of waiting on him, and wasn’t under the impression that it disgraced a man to lighten his wife’s cares a little. That is the reason that Eve did not need a hired girl, and we wish it was the reason that none of her descendants did.
—Anon.