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Wherever Christianity has spread since the days of Jesus, it has raised the status of woman in civil life, it has kept her in her ecclesiastical place. Even professional women are rarely allowed to do more than sew, serve suppers and teach Sunday school. Wrote one Disciple: "The world has claimed the brains of our brilliant women. The church was too slow...
...Italy the campaign was vital. Italian bases in Greece could neutralize the Dardanelles and negate Turkey's British sympathies. An Italian Crete would make the eastern Mediterranean very hot water against the plates of British vessels. An Italian victory would eventually mean a Greater Albania which would sew up Italian domination of the western Balkans...
...What the inhabitants need most," he concluded, "is medical care. When we were there, one received a badly smashed head, and we had to sew it up without anesthesia. Fortunately, the skull healed before the loose bones were pushed into the brain. All their teeth are rotting, because they have no dental instruments. I am sending them some as soon as possible...
Scots ideas of discipline in child training molded the future Queen from birth. In her girlhood as Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, not only was she taught to cook, sew and garden but on certain days, dressed as a housemaid, it was her duty to show tourists the sights of Glamis and afterward when most of them offered tips she was Scotch about that too. About 30 miles from Glamis is the Royal Family's Balmoral Castle, and Queen Mary took an early fancy to budding Lady Elizabeth who presently in 1922 was bridesmaid to Princess Mary. King George...
Eddie Marsh worshipped his pious, bookish, tone-deaf mother (she "couldn't tell God Save the Weasel from Pop Goes the Queen"). She weaned Author Marsh on Hamlet's soliloquy, and he started her reading such moderns as Zola. She taught him to sew, too, and later, Sir Warrington Smyth, a schoolfellow, and "a powerful influence for good, fired me to knit mittens...