The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-07
A LIBEL ON WOMAN?

Judge Peter s. Grosscup Of the fed.
eral court In Chicago expressed him
self quite freely on the subject of
:, woman and her limitations in a re-
]. cent address before the Highland
/ Park Woman's club. There appears
to have been some naisunderstandin
as to the subject on which he was ex-
pected to speak The audience as
4 sembled under the impression that he
\ intended to speak on women in club
4 work, but Judge Grosscup thought he
was to speak on women in relation
to work-"real work, as he termed
it. He excused himself from saying
anything about woman and mother
hood on the ground that the recent
4 chief of the nation now in Africa, has
taken that out of the department OF
| the Judiciary and made it an execu-
tive matter. In speaking of what
woman is and isn't he said:
Woman is pre- eminent'y Great
ure of detail. but she considers each /
one separately and never In relation /
to anything else, except perhaps the
relation which a feather bears to a /
hat
She is not scientist, for science
consists IN gathering masses of detail.
She is failure even at doctoring,
except In the humanitarian phases OF
1t, such as are embraced in good nurs- II
ing.
She is not good as theologian, be-
cause theology demands analysis, and 4
a woman can't sit off and analyze any II
THING hn 111 IL. vi
picking at the hem of omniscience H
and WONDERING IL it was made of silk Il
or nearsilk. III
With all due Difference to the major. HI
lty OF my audience, woman is not good HI
in judicial work because che is de- III
void OF the reasoning faculty. One III
woman lawyer / know ended her ca
reer In Jail for contempt of court be. II
cause a judge ruled against her and H
she threw q pitcher at him.
Any man knows the end of bust III
ness career that any woman under.
takes. She has not the qualities to ii
conduct any business to success I'm. H
less it is by hit. an accident"
After uttering these views Judge Il
Grosscup In way apologized for /
them by saying that "a mans idea OF II
q woman was not an intellectual pro- II
cess but a habit. A monkey" he said HI
IN illustration, once found it could HI
open door when standing on its HI
head and touched the spring with it's II
paw. After that it always stood on
It's head to open the door and SO it
$ with man: he always is standing
IN his head when sizing up woman"
Referring to sweethearts the speaker i
said: III
The image every man has on his +
'weetheart is the same image. Eli,
1ou would cast picture of 500 mems Il
of their sweethearss on a r.
slide every man would recognize her.
,ut few of the original sweethearts
would recognize themselves. She
would be an innocent young creature
Who looks in your eyes and saws l
h'ngs to you she has never said be- S
ore, never will say again. In real 4
life she probably has had other ex- q
)eriences 9
There are things which women can :
10 royalty. the speaker admitted. In :,
lis efforts to square himself with his
auditors he enumerated the follow :
ng:
Women preserve the humanities,
The interprets and produces art, she
lourishes culture, and cultivates SEN
.ment
Art is turning outside that which d
s inside of one. and no one can pour I
oneself out like woman Woman r
IAN feel and interpret music, even on /,
jews harp Women can be great :
lotion writer's
In the preservation of sentiment !,
hey contribute great deal to :
in the opinion of Judge :
5rosscup, who declared that senti-
nent is necessary to life in its en-. !.
frety. Men create history, but the :, :.
women are the only ones who have !.
sentiment for it. \