The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-18
LATEST THEORY OF WOMAN,
She Started Ahead of Man, Says This Professor, but Lost Her Proud Pre-

]She Started Ahead of Man, Says This
 Professor but Lost Her Proud Pre-
 eminence.
 Professor w. L. Thomas, of the Un- iversity of Chicago, sociologist au- thirty of note and a fellow instructor of Professor Charles Zueblin, has pro- duced treatise on woman, which, af- ter ignoring the Adam and Eve and numerous other theories of the origin of humans, proposes unique history of the relations of man and woman from the beginning of time to the pres- ent day
 Professor Thomas places the title "The Adventitious Character of Wo- man" to his essay. His theory is ex- pressed in part as follows;
 | life itself was in the beginning fe- male, so far as sex could be postulated of 1t at all, and the life process was primarily a female process, assisted by the male Up to certain point in his physical and social evolution man shows an interesting structural and mental adaptation to woman, or to the reproductive process which she repre- sents, while the latter stages of hlsto- " show, on the other hand, that the lmental attitude of woman, and conse- qrently her forms of behavior, have ,been profoundly modified, and even her physical life deeply affected, by her ef- fort to adjust to man.
 Under a new stimulation to be at- tractive, and with the addition of orna- ment to the repertory of her charms, woman has assumed an almost aggres- lsive attitude toward courtship. The means of attraction are so elaborated, and her technique is so finished, that she is really more active in courtship lthan man. We speak of man as the wooer, but falling in love is really meditated by woman. The American woman of the better class has no su- lperior rights and no duties, and yet she is worrying herself to death-not over specific troubles, but because she Ihas lost her connection with reality. Many women more intelligent and en- ergetic than their husbands and broth CTS have no more serious occupations than to play the house cat, with or without ornament, It is a wonder that more of them do not lose their minds; that more of them do not break with the system entirely is due solely to the inhibitive effects of early habit and suggestion.
 "The theory which accounts for the short career of the fast woman on the score of an early death is well-nlgh groundless. Society simply cannot keep track of these women, and the world is so large that they reappear in the ordinary walks of life, marry and are given in marriag age-and the world l is no wiser. There are thousands of girls leading irregular lives in our | large cities whose parents think they are in factories, stores and business positions, and many of them return to their native communities, or drift far ther, and be married, and make good es-uncommonly good wives, many of them, because they have had their fling. The remedy for the irregularity, pettfness, i'll health and unserviceable- | ness of modern woman seems to lie. therefore, along educational lines. Not in a general and cultural educa- ton alonc. but in a special and occupa- tional interest and practice for women, married and unmarried. This should be preferably gainful, though not on- erous nor incessant."