The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-08-16
NO BETTER FOR
HAVING A PAST
Chicago Women Dispute Statements
of Professor Thomas Who Says
Fast Women Make Good
Wives.

SHIChRUs huk ~ 1ho "Vunh
with a rast,' has arraved Chicago
club leaders, sociologists. .rt formers and
alienists into two camps-those who
believe with Professor W Thomas
of the University of Chicago tnar she
is little tie worse fer having 'had her
fling" and Others that hold that
womsnhoGd debasad never RECEIVERS
from the past
Professor Thomas startling ssser
tion is one of the most sensational of
the many sensations in sociological
problems at the University Eof Chicago
He asserts that the woman with
the past " does NOT die an early death,
as society supposes, but often marries
and makes good wife-'an uncom-
monty good wife"
"Absurd. No woInan is bettor for
having had her fling, SAY the women
of CnIcao with few exceptions. The
discussion provoked by the educator
in his magazine article spread to al
circles.
Mrs. Thomas charming and ad-
vanced scientist, blue grass Ken
rucEy woman with the delicious drawl
of the South holds with her husband
right loyalty.
"It's true, it's true, she says in
sunstance, "if the world of newspaper
readers is advanced enough to profit
by it-which the average newspaper
reader is not.
Among Professor Thomas sensa.
tional statements the following were
the target for the most heated con-
troversy:
The theory which accounts for the
snGrt career of tine dssIpated woman
ON the score of an early Death Ia we'll
nigh groundless Society simply can
not Keep track OF these women, and
tbe world is so large that thew reap
pear in the Ordinary walks of life and
rhe world is no wiser.
"There ale thousands of girls lead
ing irregular lives in our cities whose
parents think they aIe in factories,
stores and business positions, and
many of them will retuIn to TIL ir
native con manities Or DRIFT farther
apd be married and MAKE good wives
-uncommonly good wives may Of
rhem-becauss they have had their
fling.
"If you drive nature out of the door
she will come back through the win
dow, ana this interest in greater
stimulation is, ! teIieve, tie dem
inant force IN determining the choice
--or rather the drift of the so called
fast women. She is seeking what from
the psy geological standpoint. may be
called normal life.
1.-The American woman of the bet
ter classes has superior rights and no
duties and yet she is worrying herself
70 death because she has LOST her con-
nection with reality"
Mrs Catherine Waugh McCulloch-
l think there is just as good chance
for q woman to settle down after q
dissipated life as there is a man un-
fortunately. neither seldom do Once
in hundred times man or a woman
may settle down, the ninety inc
ether she or he does not. Some
filings" believe leave lasting mark.
Mrs. Fenton B. Turok--The theory
is an absurd one No woman is any
better for having had her fling.
don't believe in women even superb.
ciaIly learning CERTAIN sort Of life Il
is unnecessary, I don't believe that
women who have drunk the dregs
make good wives
Miss Helen G. Roberts-No don't
believe in the thoeory The energies
of women Of that charactsr are entirely