Marshall County independent., 1895-10-25
A NEW VIEW OF TIE WOMAN
QUESTION.


blood corpusces than man? II she
has not. then according to Prof. Wald
eyer OF Berlin i'll a paper recently read
before the Archaeological Congress
at Cassel, she might Is we'll not me.
She is SO handicapped by nature III her
physical makeup that she cannot enter
into competition with the tyrant Of the
other sex.
The learned German professor does
not attack the coming woman from any
such puerile standpoints as that she
has never yet founded d religion, that
she cannot whistle, that she cannot
throw stones, nor does he go back t.
the Bible, asserting with Genesis that
woman is the append X TO man and
source of all sin, or with Paul that
wives must obey their husbands and
shut their mouths in church. Like all
those exhaustive German professors
he has dug down to the roots of the ar
gument and has propourded the thesis
that the woman's rights problem is
purely question of blood.
As this new thesis is already the subject
ofviolent discussion among the coming
women of Europe, most of whom are
ready to burn the professor at the stake,
and as il must soon break out luridly
and vehemently in this country,
where the coming woman is far more
aggressive and sanguinary than her sis
ter cf the Old World. il will be well to
state the substance Of his declaration.
The groundwork OF the thesis is as fol
lows:
Ii IS very remarkable tia the
higher world OF organisms should be
split UP in;o male and female sec
ton: all the more remarkable that there
are numerous plants and animals less
developed which perpetuate themselves
without any sexual arrangements what
ever: the unicelluIar individuals multi
ply themselves by dividing or by sprout-
Ing. The combination OF the two sexes
in one indiviiuai does occur even in
certain OF the higher organisms, but
as an exception. This is the case
with the sea perch, for instance. We
can affirm generally that the higher
the genus and the species, the create.
is the difference between the sexes.
In some animals the male is but pa
rasite Of the female, as in the case of
the conicella yiridis, the male of which
IS wretched little parasite found in
the intestina! canal of the female,
which latter is far more developed.
Starting from this basis the professor
discussed the general points of differ
enCe between lhe sexes, showing that
the human male has a much more de.
veloped muscular and bone system than
the female, that the female index finger
often extends beyond the middle finger,
that her teeth and skull formation are
very different from the male. and that
her brain is lighter and radically differs
In the development of various parts of
it. Tie professor laid most serious
stress, however, upon the blood.
The twenty AnthrOpological
Congress at Cassel approved the pro-
fessor's thesis by demonstration of
emphatic and enthusiastic applause.
The Chicago Tribune has not the
hardih0od to join in the applause. or
to decide that the absence of a few
hundred corpuscles debars the coming
woman from exercising masculine pre-
negatives. 1t Is content to leave the
professor and his thesis in her hands
with the supreme conviction that whe-
ther she upsets his theory or not she
will make it so lively for him that he
will wish he had never been born of
400 corpusced woman. Coicago
Tribune.