Hi AlanF,
I remember reading that Rutherford was quoting Kipling when he
made the remark about women being a "bag of bones, and a hank
of hair"....He probably thought he was so cultured, quoting
Kipling like that.
Somebody should have given Rutherford a severe tongue lashing, for
speaking so disrespectfully of women. It appears that no one
around Rutherford had the nerve to do so. (except for Salter, and
Moyle, both of which got the boot from Brooklyn)
Well, I decided to look up the quote, first what "The Judge" said:
"A woman is nothing more than "a hank of hair and a bag of bones."
-- Speech given at a 1941 St. Louis, MO convention discouraging
marriage.
.... and here is the poem by Kipling:
THE VAMPIRE, by Rudyard Kipling
A FOOL there was and he made his prayer
(Even as you and I!)
To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair,
(We called her the woman who did not care),
But the fool he called her his lady fair
(Even as you and I!)
Oh, the years we waste and the tears we waste,
And the work of our head and hand
Belong to the wonwn who did not know
(And now we know that she never could know)
And did not understand!
A fool there was and his goods he spent,
(Even as you and I!)
Honour and faith and a sure intent
(And it wasn't the least what the lady meant),
But a fool must follow his natural bent
(Even as you and I!)
Oh, the toil we lost and the spoil we lost
And the exceuent things we planned
Belong to the woman who didn't know why
(And now we know that she never knew why)
And did not understand!
The fool was stripped to his foolish hide,
(Even as you and 1!)
Which she might have seen when she threw him aside
(But it isn't on record the lady tried)
So some of him lived but the most of him died
(Even as you and I!)
'And it isn't the shame and it isn't the blame
That stings like a white-hot brand-
It's coming to know that she never knew why
(Seeing, at last, she could never know why)
And never could understand!"