Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-23
Professor Chrisman's Lecture at the
Mothers Congress Arouses Storm
Of Angry Criticism
He Advocated the Education Of Girls
Exclusively For Wifehood and
Motherhood.
Said Men Didn't Love and Women
Should Have Entire Care Of
Children.
eclal to Tlmes. Republican.

man, professor OF pathology in Kansas
State Normal School, brought upon
the wrath OF come of the best
takers in the mothers' congress yester-s
day by his radical declarations on the
subject Of parentage and preparation
for motherhood. After outlining what
the study of the child should be in coll
leges, he said that colleges We're now for
young men. and not for women except
to train them to compete with men. He
presented statistics showing that uni
versitiea are deficient in that which
women most want physical training.
domestic science, domestic art and the
science Of the child. Where is thu. uni-
verslty, he asked, which trains for
Here are some OF the things to which
Or. Chrisman's audience of mothers
took offense:
The college Is almost altogether for
the young man. Our great universities
are striving in every way possible TO so,
specialize their work as to give every
young man who enters them the kind
of training that he most needs to fit
him for future life. Some universities
boast of more than 90 courses. The
young woman who wants to fit herself
to compete in life's struggle with the
young man, in most OF our institutions
finds plenty of opportunity and for.
such the college offers ample work.
But man is reason and the college.
courses are for the training of this rea-
son. For the woman who wants her
reason trained-to make of herself a
man-there are great opportunities.
But the vast majority Of women want
no such training. hence they do not
enter our universities.
Nevertheless the fact remains that
man has broad shoulders on which to
bear the burdens Of life and woman is
strongly built in the pelvic region to
bear the children. 1t is remarkable
how many courses our universities are
offering to young men to prepare them
to take upon themselves the burdens Of
life, but where is there university
that trains for motherhood?
II believe that woman has driven
man out OF the school room because.
she is his superior in dealing with chill
dren. believe that she should have.
almost full charge of the children in
the home and that she should be
trained for such work. 1 believe that
the wife should relieve the husband
from the cares Of rearing and training
the children, so that he may have but
little else than the providing for the
mother and the child.
rs it right to give our girls such a
study as will keep marriage and child
getting before them? What do you
build and furnish your fine parlors for?
What do you have parties and socials
for? What do you dress your girls in
the finest and best clothing for? For
what purposes do you give her accom-
gplishments? For no other purpose un-i
der the sun than to make her mar
IiaEeable.
Your daughter is put upon the mar
ket She is dressed in the best. She is
displayed to the best advantage. This
being so, why should she not be edu-
Gated to the best advantage? By all
those tokens you say to the young men
that your daughter is of marriageable
young men in search OF wives. Your
marry and strives toward that end,
which think is the most desirable po-
sitipn that a young woman can aspire
to. Then why will it not be better to
let the girl know and every one know
that there Is an education which fits for
marriage and maternity? Let it be
known that the young lady for four
years or more Is studying for no other
purpose than the view of wifehood and
motherhood at the end. What wives the
men would then have! What mothers
the boys and girls would then have.
Woman is love always. If she has
no husband or child to love, or a BROTH
err or sister or father or mother.
she takes some child or a cat or Il dog
or a horse or something else. She must
have an object on which to bestow her
love- Man never loves He only rea-
sons. What in man Is sometimes desig-
mated love is nothing further than sex
feeling. II the man the woman loves
should be transformed into woman
she would love him still. If the woman
the man loves should be transformed
into man he would no longer love her.
as his love is sex-attraction, while
woman's is love in the true sense.
I'm lower animals the mother means
everything to the young, while the fa-
Their means little more than the beget-
ter. Man has the same sexual passion
as the lower animals. but man has rea-
son. while all other males lack 1t or at
least in so highly deyelopedfa form as
man. Man sees that the mother who
has no other cares of motherhood must
make the best mother. SO he of all male
animals surrounds her with comforts
and necessities which allow her all the
time needed to care for the young, and
to be thus able to devote all her powers
to the training and rearing OF chill
dren.'
The discussion, which followed DR..
Chrisman's paper. might more properly
be called a bombardment, a fusilade, a
rapid fire of criticism. Mrs. Winfield S.
Hall. of Rerwyn. ILL.,. led Off. Mrs. Hall
said she had n different picture in her
mind of the ideal man and woman than
that presented by the speaker Qoud
cheers.) She said her ideal man did
more than love the woman, and the
ideal mother not only loved but thought
about the child. The woman who is all
love allows the child to do what he
likes because she can not bear to re.
fuse him; the man who is all provision
leaves to the woman the entire care Of
the home ard children.
Mrs. Rirney. of Philadelphia, was
upon her feet as soon as Mrs. Hall had
concluded. Mrs. Birney was not Oft