New-York tribune., 1914-03-02
Rabbi Wise Also Says Aver
age Society Wedding Is
on Money Basis.
BRIDES LIKE MODELS
FOR MILLINERY SHOPS
Speaker Declares Present Unrest
Among Women Is the Result
of New Democracy.

THE average nice, decent riverside
Drive marriage is based on the ability Of
the man To buy pearl necklaces and nun
an automobile. rather than his fitness 10
become father" said Rabbi Stephen :.
Wise Yesterday IN his talk before the
Free Synagogue at Carnegie Hall. The
women prepare for marriage by buying a
trousseau. They look like advance models
for millinery shop and are about as fit
20 become mothers. Their lives are empty,
barren. rotten.
Let us stop this dishonest twaddle of
saying that n woman shall he asked 10
be nothing more than mother. That
was all right years ago. when a family
Of ten or twelve children was a common
thing but il will lot do now. You can
hardly say that motherhood is suff-
ciently engrossing calling when on every
side YOU can see wonderland men. too
spending their time i'm this jumping mad
ness called modern dancing. Their lives
are spent fitting from one banaity 10 an
other ! am sure / don't know what the
end Will be-perhaps barefoot rope dane
ing
The solution OF the difficulties which
confront us is IN what is called the
feminist movement. ! do not like that
name,-4or the essence of the movement
is humanism. rather than feminism, and
to give IL such name implies that wom-
en- are only females. while men alone
are human.
The present unrest among women Is
due to a new democracy. a new industry
1lf oil q
remains tho same Regardless OF all the
changes wrought in our civilization in the
last century many still feel that women
are nothing more than the inconscqucn-
tal dependencies OF n period that has
long since passed into history.
Women are naturally conservative. but
they have shaken off the paralyzing bonds
Of conservatism. Some say that il is rev.
olutionary. but il is a patient and sweet
tempered revolution, except when a few
deluded women lapse into the masculine
fault Of believing that force can take
the place of reason.
THE womans movement means
change from femaeness to womanhood-
from sex 70 humanity. 1t means that she
will not be petted and privileged and at
the same time underpaid and oppressed
because OF her sex.
"ln obiecting to the feminist movement
many people say that the women arc un-
reasonable and that they ask too much.
just one laughable instance OF tho arro-
gance of man will make that argument
seem weak In France. some years ago
a repopulation commission Was appointed
TO look into the causes and remedies for
the greatly depleted population. There
was rot a single woman on that commits
sion. Men would not have accepted sUch
treatment They would have said, Have
YOUR commission and repopulate without
us II YOU can.
Dr. Wise told OF some OF the advances
made I'm methods Of correction by women
and advised that the matter OF domestic
relations and the handling Of the cn'I-
dren's courts be placed more i'm the hands
Of women than It is at the present time
81 could name half a dozen women ana
among them would be DR.. Katharine -
Davis. Commissioner Of Correction ne
said. who could sit in the night court
with a higher degree of service than we
have at the present time