The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-03
MRS. GILMAN, IS 54 TO-DAY AND SCOHlgS
 CUPID AND COCKPIT

Charlotte Perkins Gilman fanc-a throughout America and Europe co the leader of the fenInfsts. rraireg ur secret of the fact that she will 1e ~ four years old to-day The Gore most advocate, on the placforr1 and in the press, of "the larger fenzi zllezr. and the woman who is hailed by E- as the greatest thinker and p.lilarl- pI1er of her sex, was born An aGL- ford, and spent her sirlnoCd iu Che Connecticut capital and in San cisco. She is the gran duleCe G'l Eael- ry4 Ward Beeches and Harriet Beecr- CT Stowe, and the gran q ldlsl1a-- ter of Lyman sBeechers which 1sE-sar- accounts for her eIoquencs as an Cl-- tor and her ability as a. writer 1884 she married c. " stetsous anl in 1900 she became Mira Gllmar- Gla wife Of a, lawyer who was re1s-lel lr Daniel Colt Gilman, the Jonng Hop kins University president and co Ee1- Dr. Edward Everett Hale. 8EFa. en-
 man s father Was long a prDr11fas-- brarfan in San Eranc9scos and wrote the wtdely-read Guide fo Beet Read ing" Mrs. Gilman began her lterar career in 1893, when she publsa ssyFonaan' and Economic" and a urne Of verse entitled 'fIn I1lg C World. As a writer oG psye1ol1r1- cal fiction she produced a ftsls 1raE- terpiece in that weird study ir sag gestfon. "The Yellow TTa1lpaDsr.
 14dLAJ IdQlGc-A anu doctrfnes have been preached bw rr- Gilman since she became e. pislfor1e lecturer in 1909. In her lecture r fssIove. Hove and lfarr1eEe f cred before many gtartled ar-d in America. and Europe. ahe eeor Cr. arrow" severely to tack for tle in which he makes love ,afat1r rather mlsnaauasss them for
 Gilman has little but seorm frr enc 
 that Cupid represented on traction, while Hfothsr Love tude. Frfendshlp, -Adniralarr 1 age were equally neresrv tC sllc1er- ful and happy marrla8se frr- en- man admits that She guo1saLiru cf men may have been necessarT al r. time, but sae fnElgfa that it ir s- longer. She admits, sDealrin1 Tor sex. that Eve have been kept and fed, and sclOtned--verz Esnrm but she believes that tha nme g come when women e1culd cairl achieve economic freedom
 The fconoclastic preac1sr CT larger fernirfsTn hag gcang the. instikutlon of tne home frer and scorna the food that Eao
 to cook She declare fHat rfc1 thraIldom to the kitchen rarGs
 soon be thing of the paa- and the culinary art. as well ae
 cleaning and the family waGhlnG
 be turned over to specfaliats T
 Gflman's prediction con1ea trtzas berIess Johns Gfroughouc tle
 will soon be deprived Of the
 of tshonne cooking
 The tfune-honcEed story cf Ar and Eve has been cornpiateir turned by Afrs- Gilman, who and quotes sociological a1tne eTftle prove, that Adam was the ~zH-
 man, she says, was the cflg1a of life from which man Uan later and insi gnidcant cfishro4 story of the rib, as ft appeaEs ir Gen. es1s, fs Characterized aa s.a r1u-maa9 myth.
 The order mamnalias7 e I Gilman, in tones Of triumph. highest form of animal fes
 follows this statement with Ee l
 laration, 'sand we, the female are fr
 order mamma1fay and the 1smale
 1ytv
 And now Mister Man, what have got to say to that2 < F Isn't # abomf time that yor
 ed over Che page to perE@s tne i ing neWsz Tn the rinE and or | diamond, at ieast poor
 raigns supreme s Glory bet An1 rt
 who knows 2-the next ~wntr F
 may be a perfect 1adyl Frocks for play hours should