The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-02-01

the ln1erlOrlJy Oh WOuloh! tAONA
Norway comes yet another dramas
list with a word on the subject,
Auguste Strindberg, who supports
his theories in the phrases of parlez-
vous.
by her whole constitution
finer skin, Trailer bones, beardless
face and weak voice-woman is
simply undeveloped man. Man
breathes by the diaphragm, woman
by the thorax. A boy inhales
more oxygen than a girl. The
shape of the skull, in woman, re-
sulting from and expressing the
activity of the brain, resembles
that of the child, while the brain
itself has fewer convolutions and
the gray matter is lighter. Her
nerves, like a child's, are stronger,
enabling her to endure greater
physical pain, wherein she re-
sembles the savage. In the fine
senses her inferiority is again APP
parent; as to touch, where is the
female Rubinstein, List or Paga-
mini. and what woman left to her
self has not a weak, irregular hand
writing? That she has poorer
taste is proved by the fact that she
is less difficult to please than man,
does not appreciate wines, and can
only secure reliance on her cook
books when they are approved by
menp
Besides other inferiorities, she
cannot be depended upon to be on
time. cannot even tell time, or
learn to make coffee well, forsooth !!
This lack of qualities proves her
inferiority, while the struggle for
emancipation is only futile at
tempt with failure as its foregone
conclusion.
So saws Ibsen's countryman. 1t
is significant, however, that French
critics bounced upon Strindberg' s
book and gave him no quarter.
Claretic said:
GAIL this does not prove that
woman is inferior to, but only dit
ferent from, man. AS Strlndberg
is a dramatist, he knows that on
the stage at least, lie success, c'est Ia
femme. AS to details of more or
less oxygen, and thorax and d1a'
phragm, they prove neither supe-
riority and inferiority, only diff
ference of organism and equlva'
lence in function"
Dumas writes, 81 have passed
the age when men can assert the
inferiority of women, and L abide
by one formula, possibly men are
worth much; certainly women are
worth more. }"
Daudet, for whom "womanhooC
is Motherhood" declares Strlnd
berg's paradoxes "monstrous," ant
what with one witness and an
other, it certainly appears tina
men of brains, scions of the SO
called effete Latin civilization
hold woman today in lOftier est
nation than does at least one c
the presumably towering and win
swept intellects of the North.
From Germany, too, comes
word about women. Professo
Waldeyer, famous Berlin anatc
mist, gives us the wholly scien
tific view" of woman's sphere, in
paper read at the recent Anthropo
logical Congress at Carsell.
Woman has only 4 100000 re
corpuscles in a cubic centimeter {
blood to mans 100000. No
these red blood cells are the quir
tessence of existence; therefor
taken with the difference of brai
weight and brain development
both greater in man, science pro
claims woman but nine-tenths
man. And again therefore COZ
cludes Herr Professor, woma
ought not to widen her sphere b
having it include the occupation
and professions now confined
men. In his judgment, the tas
imposed upon women by the ver
constitution of her blood is
make herself useful as ''cultur
bearer" within the family circle.
We note that the congress M
only heard the learned gentleman
remarks without a word OF protes