The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-22
He TALKS OF LOVE
Professor Chrismau Says It
a Great Mystery.
TEMPERAMENPS PART IN IT
Is Not Considerable in His
Opinion.
TEMPERAMENI'S PART IN IT

Love- said Professor chrisman Of
Emporia, who was recently let out Of the
Normal school because of an assertion
that women only loved. is a mystery.
When we think we have found rule for
it. we always come upon fact that shat
ters the supposed discovery"
DR.. Chrisman lectured at the Auditor
ium last night, and during the afternoon
an Eagle reporter had a talk with him.
The doctor IS a very earnest man and is
very much interested in the higher edu-
cation of women In fact, this is his
great theme, and he has spent lifetime
in IFS study. He bases his sentiment on
the premise that a man is Of a reasoning
nature, while women are imbued with a
nature that tends more 10 the finer sensi-
bilities; that her great attribute IS the
mothers love for a child and the preser-
walton OF the human race. Man is sup
posed to meet with the baser forms Of
life and in his work comes in contact
with all sorts and conditions of develop
ment, but a woman is expected to care
for the home. OF course there are ex-
ceptions when women have developed a
ldSOlil4A5 DOMCI Cl4cA4 ~ L44lA - anu EN ElA
surprising him. Man comes to his con-
illusions by a process of reasoning while
a woman reaches hers by intuition. IN
the study of the different conditions of
humanity he found that the education
was to blame for the folly Of the race.
The curriculum Of our universities IS
founded on the courses laid down by the
educators Of the Middle Ages, when wo-
men were excluded from the schools.
There are in but few colleges a course
for women They are required to study
the same things as men, and their very
nature revolts. They naturally do not
care for the sciences except as it viii be
an aid in making the home happier. The
doctor is a strong advocate of the Do
nestle Science work in colleges. He does
not believe in the womens colleges but
stands for co-education Of women on an
equal basis, but each set taking UP the
various lines that interest 1t.
He talked on the Jnories of love as Civ
en- by some, but said that this was one
of the subjects that is not thoroughly
understood. Man and woman are attract
ed to each other by some force that can
not be understood. He said there was
nothing in the theory that blondes at
tract brunettes or that similarity in stat
ure had anything to do with it. Temper
ament should not be considered as of very
much Importance as a person was at
tracted By a person of one temperament
as well as another except in so far as
congeniality was concerned. A person
who was interested in certain lines Oh
thought would naturally have a liking
for another of the same lines of thought
In light of his recent experience with the
educational forces, Professor Chrisman
was asked if it were possible in his opin-
ion for a man to become a martyr by be-
ing sincere, He thought it possible.
He was asked to define the difference
between modesty and prudery.
"Modesty is a natural gift, while prud-
cry is something begotten by ignorance, -
is the reply the doctor made, and a little
study viii show the psychological student
the truth 1.-THE natives of Africa cover
themselves" he said, because of the
natural modesty. and in the civilized
countries there are things we consider all
right that would be considered shocking
by any person Of natural modesty."