Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1920 — Noah’s Wife. [ARTICLE]

Noah’s Wife.

There must be some foundation for the perpetually recurring story: Hi the medieval mystery j playa- erf Noah’s wife, Noah’s name moans “rest.” Noah’s wife’s makeup was restless. Her name was Naamah. Naamah was a daughter of Enoch, “who walked with God,” says holy writ, but Naamah wotted about with her temper and nearly upset the ark Itself with the “kick” she made at Its uprearlng. Bhe fought Noah with doughty flats all the way through, and When the great man bad completed his work she said she would not go .In with the animated-The an-imals-behmred better, and went tidily Into the ark. At last Nhamah consented to carry in the lyre bird. When they were afloat Naamah declared she was.as blue as the sea. -Tho liens became outraged at thia carrying on, and attacked* Noah to attack Naamah. Pretty woman with the . melodious name, you have come all the way -down history from 2448 B. 0., <to the year IPIP, A D., as the peacock fit temper. When a man builds his house (ark) his trouble begins.—Chicago Journal.