Evening journal., 1919-10-03
DEAR OLD MOTHER
IS BEST OF COOKS
Experts Can't Put Love Into
Food Says Dark-Eyed
Physician

NEW YORK. Oct. 3.-Lalln and An
slo-Saxon have taken opposite sides Of
me question OF whether mother or 81
expert at community Kitchen Is IN
better cook for father and the children
u was at the international conference
n women physicians held recently a
Inc "N' headquarters, No. zoo LcXins
.sa avenue, 9ud Mrs. Charlotte Per
'iLs Gilman was lecturlng on "Ih'
Nasle OF Labor In the Domestic In
dustry OF Women" Hot meals cooked
ouDlds and sent To- the home, servie'
Dy Tie hour by expert cleaners and IN
highest trained efficiency assisting II
he oaro OF babies and youngsters, sn'
said. would release wives Tor tasks
more congenisl 10 them.
Up Jumped a dark-eyed woman doc
Tor from France and burst into a ilooo
Of protesting French. such arrange
mont m.glIt do for the cold Angl0-SaX-
on. she said, but 'Jamals. iamais' Tor
ne Latin races. where the tie OF fam
uy IS 50 much stronger than with the
Angl
Experts are all very well.' she said
but, mon Dieu. can she who cooks
FOR 100 put as much love into the food
as can tho mother who prepares The
rusal for bcr own? There Is a moral
md psychological side 20 this as well
MS an industrial and economic one.
Love must go into the making OF what
We eat. and can a woman love 80 eat
crs whom, possibly, she has never
sccn?r
Hearty applause greeted this out
burst, which caused Mrs. Gilman to
laugh and remark:
Il see that education makes no dif-
ference, and you doctors react 10 such
sentiments just like any other audi
cnce OF women.
But remember that I simply held
that Il is better for a woman's health
II she can do what she enjoys doing
Mother love doesn't always make
good cook. Out West aud in New Eng
iand mothers love their children, and
yet many Of the former give the.
youngsters saleratus biscuits aud the
laltcr feed them pic.
you doctors don't love a sick child
5cllcr than It's mother does, but It can
furc it better. when Il Is sick. One
doesn't want mother 10 deal with an
aching tooth; one goes 10 the dentist
70 isn't necessary for a mother. simply
because she loves her little ones, 10
spend her days over a cOOk-siove and
lo lake the sole care OF the children
Iany a mother would love the children
Better il she could be away from them
more. make the point that the world
inscs much through the bad adjust
mcnt which forces so many women to
remain tied 10 domestic tasks which
could be better performed by COM
nunty methods.
And. good heavens. there are TO-
1OOO women in Europe who can
&C.. marry. Shall the loss OF ap-
pNimately 100000 men in the war
urr the women they might have mar
rsl 10 lives Of uselessness?"
n was decided 20 draft a resolution
L, the effect That woman's health |
would be improved by a freer special
iyalion In ideas.
The sex received several hard
Nhacks at the morning session from
nr Celia Nosher. OF Leland Stanford |
{ nivcrsity. who accused its members I
~ not playing fair in the game OF life !
Women hold on with both hands 10
The privileges granted them because of
Woir weakness and dependence. and at
ihe same time demand the freedom Of /
fdialiy." she said. "And sometimes
inc new freedom has entailed no new
idca NJ better flllng Of ihc woman's
place in The world. but has led her
merely 10 make herself into what Wal
Ter Lippman calls an amateur male.
Dr. Mosher declared that the belief |,
NAT woman is weaker than man is
simply fetch TO which the world
cnngs.
"The differences which are frequent
Is found are due 10 differences In the
isc Of the muscles. brought about by
limitations OF activity or
.ircss." she said. differences Of sex
arc not inherent. men and women are
~cally more like than unlike. A woman
.yno has a normal development should
bc able 10 do any work that man
nf the same size and weight may com
ror rlably do. If we can put aside the 4
old idea that being a woman Is
handicap and bring up all girl children
Today mentally and physically free,
-lothe them so that they will be ham
pcred neither in time nor in activity, |,
lhcre is no limitation TO what we may
rNpect from the coming generation"
Dr. Mosher said. however. that the
world must never lose sight Of woman's
primal function. motherhood.