Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-25
WOMAN ON WOMEN.
LIZA ARcHARD CONNER SAYS THEIR
 EMOTIONS CONTROL THEM.

women to Curb Their Emotion@i Tend encies, and Asks the Doctors Aid. s One of the most interesting features of the session of the medico-leg con oress at the United States court rooms, i1 the postoffice building, New York, was the speech delivered by clever ( 1ay woman, Mrs Eliza Archard Con ner. The audience had been treated to ]earned papers on mental maladies, the Liabilities of railroads for accidents and kindred topics. The atmosphere was distinctly scientific when Mrs. Conner was called upon to speak.
 Mrs. Corners address was practically T plea to both learned professions to use all their influence to overcome the hys- ferical and morbid emotionalism of women. She said:
 Z "What have to say today is wholly from the standpoint of plain, unlet- 5fered outsider. have no experimental Knowledge of whether man has larger 9labella than woman and woman =1arger thyroid gland and more progna- fhons jaw than man. Such facts, to my 1nind, come under the head of highly 6himportant if true. I don know and Tdon't care whether man manifests a Tendency to metamorphic katabolism And woman a tendency to metamorphic 8nabolism. only know there is mani lest plenty of diabolism in both
 In the course of my humble, wholly upscientific observations it has occurred i'd me that mans troubles arise chiefly Hom overindulgence in his appetites, Woman's troubles chiefly from overin- du ulgence in her emotions, and one is as 'bad as the other. Man, I take it, can look out for himself; it is woman I am iI1terested ill.
 Whatever woman is or is not, she is exactly what the prejudiees of 1000, 000 wears have made her, no more and no loss. With no outlet for her brains i'll Inc ages past, how was it to be expect 8d she was to have any brains? It was to be looked for rather that she should be 800 years behind man Intellectually. Many women are behind man intellec- tually. admit it, you see. But now let us bring her up even, for the blessing and Identifying of the race.
 With the conditions of 1000 cen frries of merely animal existence upon her, what wonder that woman has come fo regard herself and to be regarded by s man chiefly as-the reprodueer of fools. Iyield to none in hearty admiration of the attainments of the medical prefes- Non, but physicians have done more tI1an their share of perpetuating this back number notion of Jwomans $ end md aim. In the minds of many of fhem woman s mission is that of swell 1ng doctors fees I protest with all my Soul against this deadly old superstition fhat woman g mission is motherhood and tlaat only All women are not fit to be 1nothers any more than all men are fit 70 be fathers.
 Viewed in the light of law and nedicine woman is q bundle of emo ions Her mistakes and faults are 1fgely traceable to this gushy, terrible emotional temperament. One of her eat needs today is to learn how to con- ol it. To this end invoke the aid of ience law and medicine. Women trust leir physicians more than they do their 4Fn husbands, much more, indeed, than zley do some husbands. Physicians erefore can do more than most people
 aid in the evolution of that noble, rely womanheod the world is calling F today-yea, languishing and dying
 Medical men know that a large pro- ftion of women's physical ailments e merely the reflex action of diseased bottoms. Lawyers are aware of that
 Range, morbid tendency of our sex kich manifests itself ill the betting of Rrderers and criminals What do they
 1t for? Because of their oyergrown,
 pormal emotional temperament, that
 bands to be constantly fed by morbid eitement. In Brooklyn a little while
 woman had young man arrested
 stealing $3, 800 worth of jewels from
 Hewept i'll court and did it grace
 ly, whereupon the gushy, sentimental
 man threw her arms around his neck
 exclaimed: There. there, dear,
 Ter upl Don't cry. You'll come out
 right, am sure
 But there is a more melancholy and
 pgerous phase of this overdeveloped
 otional nature. In those awful crises
 en keeping our heads saves our lives
 losing our heads loses our lives,
 mans lack of self control shows up
 st tragically. Two weeks ago at
 pan City, Md, seven persons, one
 and six women, were drowned in
 feet of water simply because the
 men became needlessly frightened
 one after another threw up their
 ,ds and went into mysteries.
 Insane hospitals are crowded with
 men who are crazy over love or re-
 lon. Sometimes this unbridled emo
 nal temperament prompts woman to
 commission of extraordinary and fe-
 lous crimes, though woman is not
 urally criminal.