The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-05
SLAM At A FAIR LADY.
WHAT JUDGE PETER CROSSCUP
SAID OF THE WOMEN.
Declared Her to Be Prominently a
Creature of Detail, But Considers
Each One Separately; Referred to
the Female Lawyer Who Upon Be-
ing Rebuked Threw a Water Pitch
er at the Head of the Court.
Especial to The Free Press.1


Chicago, Nov. 3.-How Judge Peter S.
Grosscup has settled woman's sphere
offhand, with little conceded but a
natural aptitude for writing fiction, is
one of the epics that reporters differ
upon. One insists that he said, in
his address to the Highland Park Wom-
ans club that aroused womankind,
among other things: "Woman is pre-
eminently a creature of detail, but she
considers each one separately and new
er in relation to anything else, except
perhaps the relation which a feather
bears to a hat. She is not a scientist.
for science consists in gathering masses
of detail. She is failure even at
doctoring, excepting in the human-
tartan phases of it, such as are en-
braced in good nursing. She is not
good as a theologian, because theology
demands analysis, and woman can't
sit off and analyze anything. She
would be all the time picking at the
hem of omiscience, and wondering if
it was made of silk or nearsilk. With
all due Difference to the majority of
my audience, woman is not good in
judicial work because she is devoid of
the reasoning faculty. One woman
lawyer | know ended her career in
Jail for contempt of court because a
judge ruled against her and she threw
pitcher at him. Any man knows the
end of a business career that any wom-
an undertakes. She has not the quail
ties to conduct any business to success
unless it is by hit, an accident" In
way he apologized for his views by
saying that mans 'idea of woman
was not an intellectual process but
habit" There are things which women
can do royalty, the speaker admitted.
"She preserves the humanities, she in
terprets and produces art, she nourishes
culture, and cultivates sentiment"
Fight the Awful Traffic.
Women of one state after another
are enlisting actively to exterminate
the white slave traffic, Ohio being the
latest, club women of Toledo having
reported to Assistant United States
District Attorney Harry A. Parkin of
the Woman's World committee on leg
islation agaisnt that evil the beginning
of a state campaign for better pro-
tective laws in that state. Copies of
the bills recommended by the commit
tee were requested, the campaign hav-
ing started with public declaration:
"We, the women of the Educational
club of Toledo, state of Ohio, recogniz-
ing the horrors of this white slave
traffic and the necessity for the i'm
mediate passage of unified laws in
every state of the Union that this vile
traffic may be suppressed and the Of
tenders punished, feel it not only
privilege but a duty to assist to the
full extent of our ability in getting
such laws passed in our own state as
will provide for the protection of our
sisters and daughters. We do there
fore pledge ourselves to do all in our
power to procure the passage of such
new Minnesota statutes the women of
the w. c. L. U. are given entire credit,
they having secured new statutes franz
ed on lines recommended by the Wom-
ans World committee. In Illinois,
club women are now taking belated
but hearty interest in the welfare of
girls who have been made the prey and
commodity of trade of procurers, men
and women.