The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-15
WOMAN YET SAVAGE,
PROF. STARR KNOWS
The Famous Student of Monkeys
Finds Her Still in a Primi-
tive Condition
LIKES EVIDENCES OF SLAUGHTER
Says All Her Practices Are Fierce
Her Fondncss fer Bloodshed He
Considers Sill oncunced-Makes
Use Of Deception and Trcachery.


Chicago. Frederick Starr, profes-
sor of anthropology in the University
of Chicago. described the twentieth
century woman as savage, who
gains her ends by deception and
treachery and who delights in evi.
dence of slaughter and bloodshed. He
asserted that women have not chang.
ed since the days when the human
race had tails and lived in the jun.
gle.
This attack upon women is new
line of activity for Professor Starr,
who is best known to the world by
his studies of the monkeys in Africa.
The professor at one time entertained
the hope Of catching the talk of mon
keys upon the phonograph. Three
months ago DR.. Starr made the pre-.
diction that Theodore Roosevelt would
die of fever on his African hunting TX.
pedition.
The professor airs his knowledge
of women in an article called "The
Women Men Marry" He begins by
making it clear he believes women
never must be permitted tc rise above
the savage state. for he reasons that
the existence of the race itself de-
pends upon the savage or barbaric in
stincts in the heart of the feminine
half of the world
Woman, the eternal savage" de-
clares Starr. whose only salvation
lies in the fact that she always has
been, always will be savage!"
Then he continues to say 1t is i'm
possible to civilize women, "for the
fundamental nature of woman is bar
barrie, and the continuance of the race
depends upon the rigid assertion of
the fundamental difference between
man and woman"
Professor Starr then challenges any
one to point to single first class
achievement in literature. in science.
in art, by woman. He has been un.
able to find one. for the simple reason,
as he holds, that there has never been
q first class woman artist
"Woman's religion is also notably
that of the lower culture" continues
the professor. "She is always seeing
signs in everything; she avoids hav-
ing thirteen at her table and starting
on journey on a Friday. She is the
chief supporter OF the spiritualistic
mediums; she is the founder Of new
sects in which the religious attitude
OF savagery is given high.sounding
names and maintained by the most
select individuals. Further. woman
dabbles constantly in the occult, and
spiritualism, mental science and the
occult are among the oldest ideas of
savagery."
Starr says that the twentieth CEN
tury woman shows herself no further
advanced than her sister of the jun
gle by her love for bright colors her
fondness for decorating herself with
birds and the furs of animals. also in
her love of jewels and her use of per.
fumes.
I'm the very fundamentals Of her
character, in her very instinct" says
Starr woman has come down
through the ages unchanged. Savage
Ingenuity in gaining ends through de-
ception and treachery has become pro-
verbal. The modern woman retains
these practices of savagery. When
It would seem equally easy for her to
gain her end by straightforward and
direct methods she delights to resort
10 sinuous means and duplicity. Wom-
an lives in an old. old world. She
thinks the old thoughts, feels the old
emotions, is moved by the old inn
pulses; she dresses in the old gew-
Baws; she is thrilled by the world-old
hopes and fears"
Starrs parting shot is at the charge
Of fondness for evidence of slaughter
and bloodshed and he says that in
his respect woman's savagery is most
pronounced.