Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-20
WOMAN is A HALF
But She Wants 10 Be a Whole
and Complete One
ACCORDING TO MISS HUTTON
She Delivers An Interesting Lecture Be-
fore the Unity Club On woman's
Equality With the Sserner Halt

Miss Ida Hutton delivered the con-
cluding lecture Of the Unity club
course in Temple Emanuel last evening.
Her subject was "Woman's HALF"
She was introduced 10 the audience by
the Rev. Milo Tupper. Her lecture
was not prefaeed with the usual stereo-
typed apology for existing. She began
her discourse at once and did not end
il until every phase of the social condi-
ton of woman had been mentioned.
and every possible chance for her bet
mefit mad been canvassed.
'sTake the story of the Garden OF
Eden" che said. According TO that
woman is superior 10 man. The old in
terpretation shows the inferior spirlt
of the man, it shows his cowsrdly spirit.
The woman thou gavest me did it.
He shirked the blame. A new inter-
probation by a colored man is, Thou
gavest me q woman. she gave me the
apple, and of it did eat.' In this the
blame is laid at the door of the deity.
There is q recent scientific interprsta-
ton which says that the first man had
two heads, and from one woman
came. This shows that she Was .
whole half, and is different from the
old Interpretation, which says she Was
manufactured from q RIB. Since thls
revelation has been made we are ques-
tloning the future. Scientists tell US
that by going back $4,000 years il has
been discovered that man inhabited
this North America. That he built
pyramids here. Then he crossed the
Atlantic TO Europe and built pyramids
in Egypt. The pyramids here were in-
fants. and the larger ones IN Egypt
were the outgrowth of those con-
structed here. All this is in the course
of evolution.
Must BE . Whole Half.
"Going back to the time of Adam and
Eve we find that there was q pre-hie-
toric man. We find humanity looking
up and out of the animal creation.
Bettering itself. Advancing, and from
that day to this, through the long
years OF evolution We note the i'm
provement; the vast change. Women
nave always been with men. In the
process of evolution II is the survival
of the fittest. We find humanity today
better off than il was. There 10 con-
slant tendency in the direction of i'm
provement. But man has not reached
the ideal. Practical mythology tells of
q time when man and women were
one, but for something or other which
did not please, the Gods separated
them. This, of course, is not be-
iieved, but there is that in
evolution which is more surprising.
Woman was related to the past. She
is related to the present and she must
be related 10 the future. She must be
q whole halt. She doesn't want 10 be
any small part, but whole half. She
must demand it, Has she not borne
her share of the burden as heroicalIy ss
has the man? Everett Hale told me
once that he int'Nded to write
a book about what q woman
could struggle through. It came
to me at last aud was entitled
"Rachel." IL took a young girl. Her
parents died when che WAS young.
She was adopted by rich people who
educated her and gave her every ad-
vantage, but they died and forgot to
remember her in their will. She mar
RED q man and moved out west. He
WAS a lawyer and became Judge.
This was lis idea OF what woman
could struggle through. How little he
knew of the condition OF society which
does not recognize woman n mans
equal. hold the original interpreters
of the Bible responsible. They handed
down the law that woman must be sub
ordinate TO man.
A Messiah Needed to Lead.
az do not blame Everett Hale. He
dida't know any better. lie lived IN
A ,~ HnH Ia lna
women 10 that place they deserve To
occnpy-their recognition as n whole
half. Dos the bride know when sue
steps 10 the altar, with veal over her
face, that the custom Is relic OF bar
barre days when the woman's face was
hidden because sne Was not confiiered
equal TO man? Does she know that
wnen the gold hand is put upon her
finger that il Is a barbaric token OF her
bondage and subservsBce To man? In
this great country independence wac
demanded, but not SIS a whole. The
woman bad no voice IN il, but now she
demands her independence. We don't
rest the blame anywhere. Woman has
been merged into the whole, but
now she wants the whole bali
which makes the whole complete.
During the cruel war twenty-five
years ago who suffered most7 The
woman who saw her husband depart.
knowing not whether he would return
alive or dead. vino endured the terrible
suspense, the woman or the man? The
mother who gave her son whom she
had worked for, struggled for and
reared, or the song In Europe the
woman is yet yoked up with the co~.
In riding into this city ! saw woman
dropping corn in the field. II the
women only knew they bad right "a
refuse. George Eliet once wrote,
Women acknowledge they are fools
and why notl They were made to
match man. Blu. q light 10 dawniug.
some OF the western colleges are open
10 women. Yale has opened one door.
The Michigan University. thai great IN
s,stution, is open TO women. There
are women doctors, women lawyers.
women preachers, and in every walk
Of lie women are crowding TO the
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