The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-10
W0MAN'S PROBLEM
TO 'REM0ULO RACE
Weaker Sex Question Will
Be Settled by Eugenics,
Lecturer Said.

told the members OF the League for
Political Education and their friends
1t the Hudson thcater that eugenics
after time would settle the woman
question.
"When that time comes" she said.
1--WE shall abandon nurse-made child
rem for homemade and machine-made
education for the handmade.
There has been no time in history"
said Mrs. Martin in her address. when
woman's entrance into politics would
be more inopportune than the pres
ent. Mans next task Is to destroy
monopoly. But, woman is a born mon
opolist. To the perhaps undue in
fluence which the American woman
exerts upon the male of her species.
his extraordinary greediness is in part
attributable. She 10 the woman be-
hind the graft.
ut was a woman whom once heard
say when some one suggested that her
husband had secured more than his
share Of this worlds goods: His
share? Why. his share as see 1t is
all he can get"
MANS next task Is to distribute.
She will hinder him in that Her dis
position In to hold fast. Mans task is
to organise. She Ia unorganizable.
She cannot be regimented. She does
not cohere. Yet cohesion and co-ordi-
nation of society must be effected.
Man has this much ahead of him.
ITO achieve the new nationalism
10 peculiarly a mans task, because Ia
requires association and action. Wo-
mans temperament disinclines her for
this. She Is by nature conservative
and indicidualistic. She co-operates
reluctantly.
Women Not orssarious
ut 10 true that she likes Assem-.
blases and fun; tons; but this Ia chief.
~ for their gay appearance and aes.
thretic excitement. Women are not
gregarious and can never understand
the Eregariousness Of men: that spir.
Il which leads men to congregate in
salon. village store. in clubs, in tav-
ems. on the very street corners. for
the sheer pleasure they take in one an.
Others society. So incessant IL this
craving that. lest they might perish II
they were to be deprived Of each 9TH
er's company even for few hours.
especial accommodations have to be
provided on shipboard. in cars. ferries.
stations and the like. where men may
gather together to taste thu enjoyment.
= peculiar enjoyment which IL instant.
ly destroyed by the presence Of a wo-
man."
Many OF the women smiled unbeliev.
inGly when Mrs. Martin said further.
"Now woman. after the schol girl
age. have no corresponding craving for
the society Of their own sex. Most
women can stand a great deal Of let
ting alone on the part Of other women.
Most Of them can not stand great
deal Of one another's society. II
thrown together too much they pres
emily become cross and critical So
ciety women are apt to become ner-
vously diseased. Women normally
need . great deal of solitude and quiet
and sleep. and they suffer physically.
mentally and morally II they do not
get II.
much 10 said In these days. is not at
all the club life of men. They do not
run to their clubs at all hours of the
day and night, seeking each others so
ciety. Once a fortnight or so they sc
to hear a paper read. and. as soon az
Il 10 finished. they run away. unless
forcibly detained by afternoon tea
But men do not need to be drawn to
their clubs by papers. nor held there
BY tea.
"This difference may have psyche
logical origin. Mems minds seem tc
work on straight lines. so that they
move along conversationally parallel
ed to each other on the same general
subject and In the same general di
rection. But women's minds seem tc
move rather in cruves and circles (the
Euclidian definition OF a curve. you re
member. 10 line which changes its
direction Mt every point.) Therefore
when q woman's mind comes In con
tact with other minds as cratic In
their orbits az her own. there results
. certain mutual bewilderment.
For the lnnsr Life
women were ordained from the
foundation OF the world for the private
and inner life. At their worst they are
very narrog; at their best they are
very sweet and very deep"
"A time In now coming wheY
through the science OF eugenics or au
to-evolution. as venture to call II
when man will undertaketo mold hi,
environment and his destiny ant
achieve the production of race al
much higher than we as we are from
the anthropoid ape.
1.-THE task 10 colossal. From mel
must come patient experimentation
From women must come infinite con
secration. intimate absorption and ;
divine narrowness. necessary to tn,
rearing Of sublimated race. TIL,
very qualities which would render wo
men In politics today bore will ii
her for this task. Her narrowness |,
here priceless: her nogregariousnes
indispensable. Her very greedines'
for the welfare OF her own sex Ia socia
rather than anti-social In It's effects.
I'VE shall revert to the family Of al
older fashion. wherein parents. like ar
lists. concentrating their faculties up
on their work. the transmission Of per