The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-08
Italian Woman Scientist Thinks She
Knows What Causes the
Epidemic of sut-
fragettitus.
WOMAN IS NOT LOVED
Lays All the Blame on Men for Not
Being Affectionate Like
They Used
to Be.
LBy Henry Wood, Rome correspond
ont of the Tinted Press

emit of the United Fress.l
ROME, March THE secret OF.
feminism is out, what it is, why 1t is,
and how to cure 1t. Incidentally, with
ali that chivalry for whicM man has
ever-or never--been famous. 1t can
be said right off the bat that the fault
Is rot woman's For the menace OF
femininism, man and man alone, is
guilty.
Maria Cajafa, one of Italy's leading
women sociologists and scientists Isl
the person who claims to have solvel
this interesting and widespread mod
ern social problem. Where others
have figured that it was largely an
economic or political question, Sig
norma Cajafa has found that II is
purely a moral one. And the re-
sponsibility for the moral decadenee
that has brought it about is mans
Feminism has come into being,
saws eProfessoressn Cajafa, solely be-
cause 1.-The modern man no longer
loves, The. modern man, having
failed to fill the life Of the modern
woman with the only thing that can
satisfyingly fill 1t, modern woman mas
sought ether means for overcoming
the void. Let modern man learn
once again how to love woman as ma
8Iture intended she should be loved
! ant, The modern woman will forget
In five minutes that shy; vyer wanted
to slow up prime ministers, work the
/ fire department to death and pteak
Isnci, .;ndows. according to Profess
soressa" Cajafa.
Professor Cajafa, who has just CIV
/ IN to the Italian public her first e&-
/ haustive study OF 'feminism, mas
4 been neither local nor purely modern
in her researches and treatment. In
! stead. she has regarded the subject
i as world wide question and has
gone into it both historically and
scientifically
Both sci nee and experience, de
clares the .professoressa." have es'
4 tallished that the dominating factor
IN the life of man is intellect; in that
of woman. sentiment 1t Is for TINS
reason. she explains, that the one has
greater vigor in reasoning. anG' the
other in affection; that one is strong
er. in speculation, and the other IN
: passion: that one is more rigid, and
; authoritative and the other more mex
i ible and pliable; the one more prone
TO construct, the other TO conserve;
I the one to act, the other to suffer anc
endure.
\ AS long. during the ages of the past
as man ontinued to give woman rea
love; as long as he made llsr the rea
. ideal and inspiration OF his life as
: long as he filled every moment OF hel
$ life with the sentiment which hi
, nature demands, feminism was I'm
! heard Of But now, according to Pro
e fessor Cajafa, the modern man nj
longer does this; has in fact lost thu
t capacity. For him, woman is no Iona
er what she was in all the highes
S meaning of that term, but is merel'
a. female, serving largely for his mer
a pleasure And woman, thus robbed o
the one thing that can fill her Ifs, ha
: begun to look around for other thing
u to take its place.
d For the moment, Professor CaJad
saws. modern woman has the ide
that woman suffrage, political. socia
i and economic equality, and simlla
. so-called feminist movements, can II
her void The "professoressa,' how
d ever, is convinced that such thing
a never will suffice.
e While Signorina Cajafa blames ma
for having lost this power to give 7 x
love to woman, she admits also, thu
woman. as a result, has permitted he
- self to fall into a state of decadent
IN that is anything but calculated TO 7
s. stors her To the ideal place she TO
S. merry occupied in mans life ou
sd rounded by pleasure. living only f
Sc pleasure, she says. There has st
&c ceeded TO the severe mod'esty of Il
is ancient maiden and matron, and
IT, the strength OF the former christi
b. woman, the modern femisist, friy'
as ons, light, decadent, victim OF t
All most absurd fashions. which to
at more TO undress than to dress h
I'd and who seeks constantly TO provo
in with her dressing and her looks. M
ID culine admiration. the only end
a