Atlanta Georgian., 1914-03-01
His Sons 0vergrown Babies Since
Motherhood Developed Its Tai
ents, Lecturer Declares,
THEY PRETEND SUPERIORITY
But by the Great 0rnitheryncus
Paradox the Suffrage Move
ment Will Show Them Up.

NEW YORK, Feb 28 The sacred
and time-honorcd story of Adam and
his rib was knocked into smtherccns
at the Hotel AstOr I'm the FIRST of "a
series Of six lectures on THE Larger
Feminism" +" by Mrs Charlotte Per
kins Gilman Mrs. Gilman asserted,
and quoted sociological authority to
prove, that Adam was the rib.
To the applause Of 90 assembled
and forward looking daughters Of Eve
she insisted that not only was woman
the original form of life from which
man was but "A later and iusiGniii
cant onshoot, hut also that since his
accidental emcrEenrc as an ludlVld
ual entity man had progressed and
developed very littc. while woman,
now suhtuEated economically and so-
cially. had developed and improved
enormously in functions and was by
far the higher form. phySlnlpElCalIN
speaking And for large part Of
the time Mrs. Gilman was physlolog
iCally speaking
Adams Rib Man Made Myth.
She took as her subject, The Bio
logical Base Of the Larger Fcmiuism.
She said that the feminist movement
had grown so tremendously ia the
last five years that its opponents no
) longer tried to huttrcss themselves
behind encers and moCkcry Of II, nor
behind the Bible, with its man made
myth of Adams rib but had been
forced TO try to huttress themselves
behind biology and science instead.
"And that was a most unfortunate
choice" Mrs. Gilman asserted, "for
science itself moves and grows. and
in one important particular II haS
changed very greatly Professor Les
: ter II. Ward, one of the greatest
American sociologists has recently
shown that woman was tho original
ls
later addition"
Female Surpasses Male.
Tracing the further changes in the
male and female human types sub
sequent to the timc when they be-
came separate cocqual entities, in
stead of forming "a single biseXual
organism, Mrs Gilman asserted that
since then the male had developed
very little while the female had de-
veloped with rich and varied diversity
Of functions.
To prove that, she said size had
but 70 mention the duck billed Aus
tralian ornitheryucus Paradox
which. because Of its name, many of
the women thought was male. and
sneercd at; but II wasn't Tine duck
billed Australian Ornithcryncus Par
adoX, Mrs. Gilman explained, show
ed the early development OF the fc-
male from a mere simple egg laying
creature To marSupldl creature
bringing forth its young amid care
ful warmth i'm its marsupial punch
il was missing link between the
marsupial mother and the order
mammalia.
"The order mammalia," cried Mrs.
Gilman, lis the highest form of ami
NAL life; and, we, the female arc
the order mammalia, and the female
only"
nirberein Law tbo v.hoIs ,,,eo,t n,
the tremendous change When the
female learned how To cook ah!" OK
claimed Mrs. Gilman. u sec YOU un-
derstand. The power of motherhood
then became a profitable thing to the
male. He was taken in as a sort OF
extra child and he has continued to
profit by. that service OF motherhood
ever since. Perhaps this WI sug-
Rest to YOU the reason for his terrible
fear nowadays that women viii neg
lect the functions of motherhood and
the household"