Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-24
As KISSED BY WOMEN.
Sensational Incident In the Congress Of
Mothers at Des Moines.

Mothers at Oes MOines.
Des Moines, May 23-Dr. Oscar Chris
man, professor of pathology or child
study in the State Normal school at
Emporia, Kansas, created furious
sensation in the second days session
of the national congress of mothers, in
the Des Moines Auditorium, yesterday
afternoon. DIR. Chrisman follow
ed the president of the congress
who spoke on 1.-THE Power of Organ
lied Motherhood to Benefit Humans
ity." He talked on child study in which
science he is one of the leading think
ers of the country. Men never love-"
declared Professor Chrisman. ''What
is called love in men is simply sexual
passion" In an instant the great Au-
ditorium was filled with Kisses that
made Professor Chrisman take back
ward step on the platform and scru-
tinize his manuscripts closely to make
sure that he had read his speech Alright.
Cries of No, no." were heard above the
kissing which lasted almost minute.
When comparative quiet was restor-
ed the speaker went on.
SIN ages past, femininity has meant
weakness, but today it means strength.
Woman alone, say, loves. Man rea-
sons. Woman is made to love, and
man to reason. You should teach your
daughters to prepare for wifehood and
motherhood and for their life of love.
Why do you fix up your girls in fine
clothes and send them to parties? For
no other reason in the world than to
make them manageable
Again the house was swept by a.
wave of murmuring disapproval and
the dose of kissing was repeated. DR..
Chrisman retired another step from
the footlights and skipped leaf in his
manuscript. From that point his re-
marks were entirely proper. He elu-
cidated his theories of child study and
was applauded for them but he said
not another word about love.
Mrs. Winfield S. Hall, of Berwin, Ill.,;
Mrs. S. H. Birney, of Philadelphia;
Mrs. e. R. Weeks, of Kansas City; Mrs.
Charles Springer, of Anamosa;
Mrs. Catherine Hoffman, of Enterprise,
and Mrs. Vim. Blake, of Evansville,
Ind, answered Prof Chrisman's state
ments with fiery speeches and the
Kansas man was Kissed repeatedly.
Thomas Smith, an attorney from
Harlan, and one of the very few men
in the hall with 5000 women, got off
the speech of the day and made him
self popular with the ladies of the con-
gress for all time.
II resent the statement of the gem
tleman from Kansas that there is no
love in man. He shouted, ''we all
know that is not true. The idea that
mans feeling for woman is limited to
several passions! It's false. 1 say it's
shame for this man to come before
a body of women like this, or before
| any body, anywhere, and make such
statements. 1t is a shame. 1 resent
it in behalf of the men, and do not
care whether the man who makes the
statement comes from the east or the
south, or from Kansas. 1t is not the
truth, whoever says it. As little boys
we loved our mothers with sacred
love, and as youths and young men and
fathers we love the wives of our boz
SONS and our families with love that
is almost sacred. And this professor
would have us believe that we fathers
and mothers train our daughters with
the only idea of marrying them off to
men. Think of the spectacle OLA wo-
man, a girl, walking about town bear
ing tag marked a man wanted and
this speaker would have us think that
love, which he says belongs only to wo-
man, can be taught-that woman i'm
parts it to man. I tell you, ladies and
mothers, that love is divine; it comes
from above and men have it as well as
women. | thank you.' @
At the morning and afternoon bust
ness sessions of the congress today
the reports of all the officers and
Standing committees were read. In the
evening Governor and Mrs. Leslie NJ.
Shaw gave a>reception for the women
at the state house, and the Des Moines
Women's clubs entertained at our Cir
Gle hall.