New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-04
Anti Suffragist Speaker
Briskly Assails Fair
TrOjan's Acts.
SHEARING OF SAMSON
FIRST CALL TO ARMS
Mrs. Burton Warns Women TO
Make Homes Happy for
Their Husbands.

Helen OF Troy broke into the news
again Yesterday, making record OF twice
IN ono week. which Is unusual activity for
woman OF her years. She came back,
however. only TO be stripped OF the man
tie OF virtue and innocence which Mrs
charlotte Perkins Gilman gave TO her on
Wednesday. An snti-suffragist assailed
her this time. accusing her OF being one
Of the first feminists. This was In the
course Of lecture given by Mrs. Henry
= Burton, Of Rochester. before the York
club. at No. sc East 64th street
THE feminist movement began when
Eve lifted her hand to take the apple
from the tree" she said. 1T continued
when Pandora opened the chest Of trou-
HE and when Helen OF Troy picked the
man Of her choice and left the man the
law had given her. The first militant
movement was that Of Delilah when she
took Up the shears 10 cut off Samson's
hair
''Feminism reminds me of an inchworm
that is constantly overreaching itself in
am effort 10 get somewhere IL has no
business 10 be- vet all the while Is an
chored to a place 1t cannot get away
from: often II reaches upward and for
ward. but Just as often II reaches blindy
underneath itself.
"Feminism has been defined as any
thing that isn't feminine, but | prefer
10 discuss the definition Of Mr.. George. OF
England, who said 1t consisted Of three
things. the desire for womans happiness,
woman's freedom. woman's usefulness.
The feminists who want to make
woman happy propose TO do so by fur
thering her interests-that is. by putting
her interests further from the home.
"Woman's place is in the home Mans
place is outside In the jungle days man
had no home until he captured woman
70 make It for him. To-day the mans
club is his Jungle and he won't return to
his home unless he has woman TO at
tract him home
The high cost OF living is due to the
woman who thinks she has done days
work when she has made up folding
bed. dustes the player piano and ordered
a potato salad Such a woman doesn't
earn her living.
The only suffrage argument with which
/ have any sympathy Is that Of the
woman who says she needs a vote to give
her dignity. I admit that there are many
women who need something TO make
them feel dignifed.
LAS for the problems OF love and mar
rage ! admit that there may be some
thing wrong with our present marriage
conditions, but the trouble is not too
much fsithfulness.
The feminists seem to think that what
we need is greater breaking Of faith so
that the women will match the men.
There is talk of levellng the marriage
state. The anti-suffragists want to level
4 up The feminists want TO level II
down. Norman Hapgood said what We
need is more difficult marriage and easier
divorce.
You know when that terrible fire oc-
Cured at Wellesley College the other day
afraid some Of our suffrage friends think
the same thing OF the modern woman
movement But they will find II is only
81 little bonfire set by a few irresponsibles
The sufragists already are burning them
selves out There is no possibility of
their winning the vote in New York State
IN 1915