The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-10
Verbal Attack on the Domestic
Brings Sharp Retort from
Hudson Defender.
INCIDENT CAUSES STIR IN
FEDERATION COMMITTEE
AS TO "Hysterical Women" in
Yivisection Fight--Well, That
Charge Isn't Overlooked.

sAnimalS rye now have In our lNtch-
ens.. This is the Characterization given
by Mrs. Edward =. Robinson. of West
field, ia discussing the women who nrc
engaged in domestic service.
Mrs. Robinson was speaking for the
Department of Household Economics
at a meeting of the Essex County Com
mittee Of the New Jersey State FEEDER
alton of Women's Clubs, held in the
Public Library yesterday afternoon.
"Women need to become educated
in the science of household work, since
we are obliged to put up with the sort
OF animals We now ihave in our kitch-
ens,'. is the precise way the speaker
put it.
ssRIt is a part ef our duty to educate
! them" Mrs. Robinson continued. a
1 man is known by the company he
Keeps, but a woman is known by the
servants she keeps" The speaker
stated that her department is the only
one in the federation that Is doing its
work without the assistance of men.
She declared that women are doing u
work men could not attempt in urging
tho enforcement of the pure food laws,
Mrs, Brice Collard, of Jersey City,
president of the Hudson County COM
mittee. took exception to Mrs. Robin
sons style of naming servant girls.
81 think the girls arc deserving of "a
better name,'' she said. "They are not
animals any more than are. l have
kept house for more than thirty years
and / never have had an animal i'm
my Kitchen. My girls either got mar
ried or died.
Thrust at Maids Mistresses.
'Some of US need more education
than the girls; some of US need to learn
how to treat then," Mrs. Collard said
with emphasis.
The question of vivisection was dis
cussed, the discussion bringing out
much dlfference 6f opinion.
Mrs Henry NJ sayre. president of the
auxiliary of the Humane Society Of
New Jersey, and member of the sub
committee on public health, and who
/ is strongly in favor of the bill now be-
/ fore the Legislature to prevent vivi-
j section, said women should inform
/ themselves on the question before TAX
| ing any action or expressing an opin-
/ lon She took exception to a statement
/ by member of the vivisection party
| that those furtherins the bin were
'hysterieal women
| "We should resent snch q statement" !"
she said spiritedIy. 1--WE are not hys-
tericai we have studied the subject
deliberately. We are serious-rninded
women. and We have done much good :"
Mrs. Spencer Wearth, of Js-sey City,
who has "a cottage adjoining the Rookie
feller farm ut Clyde, near New Bruins
wick, said; I'VE need more education
in the matter before we can take any
action Several months ago. before ]
studied the question, | was for restric-
ton Now / am for total abolition"
Dcfer Action ON vivisection.
Miss Anderson announced that no
action would be taken at this time.
She recommended that the women
study the subject seriously and inform
thenselyes well on the matter. The
question was referred back to the Leg
isiatlve committee in charge of Mrs.
Edward X. Livingston, for further in
vestigation
Mrs. Frances PelL president OF the
Civic Club, and Miss Elizabeth String
or, of the Essex County Teachers
Guild. told Of what is being done to
suppress immoral and suggestive bill
boards Miss Strlnger commended the
censorship committee for the work 1t
has done She urged all the women
to lend their assistance to the cause.