The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-26
NURSERIES IN FLATS
Is FEMINIST PLEA
Henrietta Rodman Says Chill
dren Of Working Mothers
Should Have Quarters.
DENIES FREE LOVE CHARGE
Women Now Have to Choose
Between an Occupation
and Motherhood.

Every New York apartment house
owner will soon be compelled to pro-
vide space for a cooperative nursery II
the Feminist Alliance has its way. The
statement was made by Henrietta Rod
man. otherwise Mrs. Herman Defrem. of
the alliance She said
The feminist movement is a demand
for the removal OF all Determinations be-
tween men and women based upon sex.
It will give fuller expression to the ma
lures OF woman. incidentally II will give
them more chance TO have babies. As
conditions are now a woman must choose
between her occupation and having chill
dren. Suppose II were put up TO a man
70 choose between fatherhood and his
business-to be told that II he did marry
he would never be able 10 do anything
again except household drudgery' A
woman is not only told that but she fnds
IL impossible 10 rent a home In high
class apartment house II she has children
II the landlord were compelled TO furnish
a nursery like the original MontessorI
schools. which were planned for the chill
dren OF women who went out to work
he would have TO take people with bablee
in order to make his nursery pay for its
space.
Some should Adopt Children.
mo, I don't believe that every woman
has a right TO a child OF her own. ] am
sure that every normal woman has
chance to marry these days. Her chance
has improved now that men and women
work together, and II will be even better
as soon as boys and girls play together
again. The woman who doesn't md the
man with whom she can have a genuine
comradeship can adopt a child. NV little
daughter whom I adopted before my mar
riage and / have the greatest FUN to-
gether
''The free love idea which the ants
charge us with approving Is not even an
aspect OF suffrage. Free love is simply
the withdrawal OF the sex relation from
the control OF the State--lt may there
after be homogeneous or polygamous
But believe that marriage has a definite
relation 10 the state. though our present
marriage laws are both stupid and cruel
Any two rash young fools can be mar
ried in New York state. but the sanes'
man and woman who are unhappy to-
gether cannot secure a divorce unless one
or the other sacrifices self-respect"
object TO Being Tagged.
"FemInism has nothing to do with suf
| frage. 1t Is the rebellion against beins
ticketed and treated as somebody's TO
male relative" said Mrs. Mary Ware
bennett secretary OF the National SUI
| frage Association. ut began with
woman's claim to an education, 20 hei
own property and 10 equal guardianship
! OF her children. There are as many
phases OF feminism as there are ways o.
making coffee, for every wonan's revolt
takes a different form
| 1.-THE antis had better he careful abou
| calling suffragists feminists, because
there are some conspicuous fem!nlsts wh'
are antls, Ellen Key and Dora Marsder
among them"
"Feminism as understand II Is thu
spiritual independence OF women" SAID
| Miss Eleanor Byrnes, press chairman o
! the National Suffrage Association. "Suf
! fragists as such are not necessarily femi
nists, however. There Is only one planl
| in the suffrage platform-political free
dom. The trouble with some ants Is tina
they confuse independence and freedom
with license and lawlessness'