The San Francisco call., 1895-05-23

unfair to make any comparisons between
the stage of development at present
reached by women and that arrived at by
men. When women have had their free
dom for 5000 years, as men have had, it
would be time to make such comparisons,
she said.
Speaking of Schopenhauer's personality,
she said she could not conceive how any
person of intelligence could have produced
such sour specimen of humanity.
A voice on the platform: "He didn't
speak to his mother for fifteen years"
''Whata happy inother" responded Miss
Shaw. Applause and laughter. Con-
tinuing, she said:
We are growing nearer to the ideal unit of
the human race. We won't have it until
women cultivare and acquire more of what are
now termed the masculine attributes and men
grow more effeminate in many ways. Christ
was the most perfect human being ever on
earth. He had every essential element OF q
true woman and every essential element OF 8
true man.
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson was then
introduced and spoke on Organization in
Home Industry" She classified home in
dustries as now practiced into three de-
partments-cooking,c cleaning and the rear
ing of children. She suggested a reform
that would throw the two former classes of
labor into the hands of professionals. leav-
ing the work of rearing children to the
mothers. By. relieving them OF the
would find more time to educate them
| selves in scientific methods of caring for
| their offpring. This most responsible duty,
she claimed, is now left in the hands of
! ignorant and unframed young girls.
| Mrs. Rev. DIR. Bowles of Pasadena, in
| discussing Mrs. Stetson's address, said the
time was fast approaching when all COOK
| ing and most household work would be
done outside of the home or by profess
| sional people specially trained for their
various occupations, and then cited the
advance already made in this direction
through the efforts of the National Eco
nomic Society, whose center OF operations
at present is in the New England States.
When she concluded Mr.. Fairchild,
who was in the middle of the packed
auditorium, was recognized. He stood
upon the chair he had been sitting on and
| began by saying he wished to say a few
words in answer to Miss Shaw's criticism
of Professor Jordan's paper. His next
sentence was verltable bomb. "Schopen-
| hauer," he shouted, Twas smarter man
than any of you ladies'" [Murmurs OF
dissent and Kisses mixed with handicap
! ping and laughter He then dwelt upon
what he called the sacred duties OF the
wife in connection with her home and dis
countenanced the idea of women entering
| the field of mems work.
| instances of her experience with male
cooks, and drew the conclusion from them
that men were divinely ordained for the
culinary art She also drew attention to
the fact that all the ''more divine attri-
butes" are usually represented by female
figures, and held that this indicates the
superiority of woman over man.
/ Miss Susan B. Anthony's appearance
was the signal for storm of applause,
She spoke on "Shall We Co-operate?'
saying:
The very first condition of cooperation is
| equality. There cannot be cooperation
| between the master and the slave. Take the
| United States. There cannot be cooperation
| as long as men make, shape and control the
| conditions and circumstances of women. The
/ first step toward cooperation must be the
| emancipation of woman.
She rehearsed the struggle made in the
New York Legislature for securing greater
legal rights for married women in the mat
| ter of controlling property and children
and the great injustice they are now labor
| ing under in many States in this regard
She humorously referred to what she
claimed was Blackstone's definition of The
married state-man and woman after mar
riage became one, and that one was the
! husband.
| Miss Shaw's mastery and entertaining
| discussion of this address concluded Tho
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