Atlanta Georgian., 1914-03-01
EVE s DAUGHTER
SAYS ADAM WAS
MADE FROM RIB
His Sons 0yergrown Babies Since
Motherhood Developed Its TAI
ents, Lecturer Declares.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2S-The sacred
and time honored story of Adam and
his rib was knocked into smithereens
at the Hotel Astor in the first of
series of six lectures on THE Larger
Feminisn1," by Mrs. Charlotte Per-
lins Gilman. Mrs. Gilman asserted,
and quoted sociological authority to
prove. that Adam was the rib.
To the applause of 100 assembled
and forward d-lookins daughters of Eve
she insisted that not only was woman
the original form of life from which
man was but later and insigniti-
cant offshoot, but also that since his
accidental emergence as an lndlVld-
ual entity man had progressed and
developed very little, while woman
now subjugated economically and So
cially. had developed and improved
enormously in functions and was by
far the higher form, physiologically
speaking. And for a large part of
the time Mrs. Gilman was physiolog-
ically speaking.
Adams Rib Man. Made Myth.
She took as her subject, The Bio
logical Base of the Larger Feminism
She said that the feminist movement
had grown so tremendously in the
last five years that its opponents no
longer tried to buttrcss themselves
behind sneers and mockery of it, nor
behind the Bible, with it's man-made
myth of Adams rib, but had been
forced to try to buttreSs themselves
behind biology and science instead.
And that was most unfortunate
choice" Mrs. Gilman asserted, for
science itself moves and grows; and
in one important particular it has
changed very greatly. Professor Les
American sociologists, has recently
shown that woman was the original
human organism and the male but q
later addition"
Female surpasses Male.
Tracing the further changes in the
male and female human types sub
sequent to the time when they be-
came separate coequal 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, she had
but to mention the duck-billed Aus
tralian Ornitheryncus Paradox =
which, because of its name, many of
the women thought WAS lItetit, anu
sneered at: but it wasn't The duck
billed Australian OrnitherynCus Par
adox. Mrs. Gilman explained, show
ed the early development of the fe-
male from a mere simple egg laying
creature to a marsupial creature
bringing forth it's young amid care
full warmth in its marsupial punch;
it was a 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. are
the order mammalia, and the female
only"
Therein lay the whole reason fr
the tremendous change. When the
female learned how to cook-ah." eX-
claimed Mrs Gilman, 81 see 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 will sug-
gest to You the reason for his terrible
fear nowadays that women will neg
lect the functions of motherhood and
the household"