The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25
HF rALKsloF LOVE.
Professor Says It's a Great Mystery
Yet Unsolved.

Wichita, May 25.-'Love." said Pro-
fessor Chrisman of Emporia, who was
recently let out of the Normal school
because of an assertion that women only
loved, lis mystery. When We think
we have found a rule for it. we always
come upon a fact that skaters the sup
posed discovery"
Or. Chrisman lectured at the Auditor
ium, and during the afternoon a reporter
had a talk with him The doctor is a
very earnest man and is very much
interested in the higher education of
women In fact, this is his great theme,
and he has spent a lifetime in its study.
He bases his sentiment on the premise
that a man is Of a reasoning nature,
while women are imbued with nature
that tends more to the finer senSibilities;
that her great attribute is the mother
love for a child and the preservation Of
the human race Man IS supposed to
meet with the baser forms of life and in
his work comes in contact with all sorts
and conditions of development, but a
woman is expected to care for the home.
OF course there are exceptions when wo-
men have developed a reasoning power
equal to mans. and even surprising
him Man comes to his conclusions by
a process of reasoning while a woman
reaches hers by intuition. In the study
of the different conditions of humanity
ne found that the education was to
blame for the folly of the race. The cur
riculum of our universities is founded on
the courses laid down by the educators
of the Middle Ages, when women We're
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 will be an aid
in making the home happier The doctor
is a strong advocate OF the Domestic
Science work in colleges. He does not
believe in the Women's colleges n 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 theories of love as
given by some, but said that this was
one of the subjects that is not thorough
~ understood. Man and woman are at
tracted to each other by some force that
can not be understood. He said there
was nothing in the theory that blondes
attract brunetteS or that similarity in
stature had anything to do with it. Tenn
permanent should not be considered IS of
very much Importance as a person was
ment as well as another except in so far
as congeniality was concerned. a per-
son who was interested in certain lines
Of thought would naturally have a like
thought. In light of his recent exper-
fence with the educational forces, Pro-
fesSOr ChriSnan was asked If it were
possible in his opinion for a man to be-
come q martyr by being sincere. He
thought it possible.
He was asked to define the difference
between modesty and prudery.
"ATodesty is a natural gift, while
prudery is something begotten by ig-
nOrance,n is the reply the doctor made
logical student the truth. THE natives
of Africa cover themselves, he said,
because Of the natural modestys and in
the civilized countries there are things
we consider all right that would be
considered shocking by any person OF
natural modesty-''