New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02
c.;.,;.t Think. Real Cause of Most Economic Trouble
I. the Bearing Of Children by Women Unable
Physically, Mentally Morally to Endow
Their Offspring at all Adequately.

thew aren't hungry Most women dan,
want to vote"
.Haye YOU SEEM" Interrupted, ''hov
we'll known woman writer answers Fam.
yaughan's 'empty-cradle' aspersionr'
DR.. Mailer said he had not.
"she writes Indignantly that It's time =.
cal, a halt on this constant blaming a,
women for race suicide'-this continual a.
sert,on that women do not want the trouha.
NJ rearing children because It interf.y..
with their pleasures, their plans. She a.
ures that fully 90 per cent OF the childeu
marriages are due to the determination a,
husbands not to have their own pleasur..
,nterfered with. Another large per On,
according to her view. Is due to the ss.
,I,tv of husbands because OF excuses beso,.
mr. after marriage: a small per cent to n.
,hya,cal ailments OF wives which they q,
not helm: and the smallest percentage Oh,
20 the desire of women to avoid mateca,
for the sake OF their comforts and "a.
ur.s What do you think about all thar
ct think she Is mistaken about most m
MT wishing children" replied DIR. Ms.s
"ond experienced physicians know ,A,s
only a small minority OF young husbsah
ore sterile Nor do / agree with her ths,
,ho nercentage OF women Of the higbs.
c,oss-the class take It she is defendlns.
desiring 10 avoid the discomforts Of ma.
ternity Is very small"
"Put she asserts further" I CONTINUED
"tbat the vast majority OF wives simply
yearn for children, and for them are willn,
20 risk comfort. health and even life itself.
"True OF the wives among the MIDI,
md moor classes, but not Of those Of tn
healthier class" commented the doctor
"s,,e whv the great disproportion in ths
r,,uber of children in rich and poor famL
les?"
",rhen she goes on TO say that the Ia.
stinct of fatherhood is not natural, but &C.
ouired. and that this is shown by thou.
sand fathers DESERVING their children when
ten mothers do So
"If they do It's not because OF any na.
,rral antipathy fathers feel for their chs.
dren" said the specialist, dryiy. "AanY
fathers get desperate through inability 10
nrovide for their large families wants
and this writer continues the defence II
her SEX" went on, "by calling our atten.
zion TO the fact that while the inoths'
willingly and gladly endures the noise
! confusion and labor caused by family d
! children. the father Is bored and distractsi
and usually gets away from H."
ct much doubt" said DR.. Maier. rather
| qrinlv. "whether anyone gladly endure
noise. confusion and labor. great many
| 0oe<
deal; and perhaps they'd get away from
them. too-if they could. What else does
this writer say"
| "Only that men want restful home {
wife TO entertain them, 20 be ready 10
accompany them when desired. 10 persers
her personal charms, to-
| Hold onr DR.. Maer interrupted VIA,
sane man wouldn't want that?'
But, lastly, she says" continued, tia.
men don't want to spend every dollar the,
make bringing up big family OF children'
II cannot better answer this last yitl.
perative indictment Of American Husbands
for selfshness," said the doctor sorrow
fully, than by quoting Professor J.
Laurence Laughlin, OF the University q
| Chicago, who said recently. American msr
are quite too good natured and leay.
American women too much TO themsely,
with an unlimited purse"
How about Professor Laughlin's char
acteriz2t.on Of rich American women Al
vain, heartless and extravagant, not want
Ing children, but with an absorbing amh
ton to shine socially rather than domesu
cally?" I asked.
Il think he's pretty hard on them re
piled the physician; ''and one thing mgs
say for the American women, rich or poo,
that, whether she has two or twenty chli
dren, she never has too many: for not tn
whole wealth OF the world could temp, be-
to part with one"