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
glo-Saxon have taken opposite sides o.
Inc question Of whether mother or al
expert ot a community kitchen Is IN
better cook for father and the children
70 was st the international conference
u women physicians held recently a
me "f' headquarters, No. GOO Lexing
+n avenue, aud Mrs. Charlotte Per
ins Gilman was lecturlng on "Th'
Waste Of Labor In the Domestic In
dustry OF Women" Hot meals cooked
outside and sent 10 the home, servlc.
By the hour by expert cleaners and th'
highest trained efficiency assisting II
lhe caro- OF babies and youngsters, she
said. would release wives for task!
more cOngenlal 10 them.
Up Jumped a dark-eyed woman doc
Tor from France and burst into a flOoC
Of protesting French. Such arrange
ment might do for the cold Anglo-S0x-
ON. she said, but 'jamals. jamais" FOR
he Latin races, where the tie OF Fam.
liy Is 50 much stronger than with the
AnglO-SlNon.
Experts are all very WE'LL" she said
but, mon Dleu. can she who cooks
for 100 put as much love into the food
az can tho mother who prepares the
meal fOr bcr own? There Is a moral
snd psychological side TO this as well
rs an industrial and economic one
Love must so into the making OF what
We eat, and can a woman love 80 eat
Crs whom, possibly, she has never
scent"
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 it Is better for a woman's health
II she can do what she enjoys doing
Mother love doesn't always make &
eood cook. Out West and in New Eng
and mothers love their children. and
vet many Of the former give the
youngsters saleraius biscuits and the
latter feed them pie.
you doctors don't love a sick child
lctlcr than It's mother does. but 70 can
DuTe 10 better when 10 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
pend her days over a coOk-stove and
in lake the sole care OF the children.
;iany a mother would love the children
better II she could be away from them
more make the point that the world
iescs much through the bad adjust
mcnt which forces so many women 10
remain tied 10 domestic tasks which
could be better performed by COM
mlnity methods.
And. good heavens. there are TO-
200 women in Europe who can
yc- marry. Shall the loss OF ap-
nNlmately 100000 men in the war
nee the women they might have mar
~ 10 lives OF uselessness?"
lt was decided 10 draft a resolution
10 the effect that woman's health
would be improved by a freer special
lJaiion In ideas.
The sex received several hard
Nhacks at the morning session from
n- Celia MOsher. Of Leland Stanford
University. who accused its members
NJ not playing fair in the game Of life.
Women hold on with both hands To-
Inc privileges granted them because of
.ncir weakness and dependence, and at
ne same time demand the freedom Of
qualify she said. "And sometimes
me new freedom has entailed no new
idca OF a better nlling Of the woman's
place in The world, but has led her
merely TO make herself into what Wal
Ter Lippman calls an amateur male -
Dr. Mosher declared that the belief
mat woman Is weaker than map isl
simply a fetch to which the world
clngs.
"The differences which are frequent
lv found are due 10 differences in the
i,,c of the muscles, brought about by
conventional limitations OF activity or
,,ress." she said. differences Of sex
arc not inherent, men and women are
~ellly more like than unlike. A woman
,vno has a normal development should
be- able 10 do any work that a man
NJ The same size and weight may COM
roriably do. II we can put aside the
old idea that being woman Is a.
handicap and bring up all girl children
today mentally and physically iree'
,ipiho Them so that they will be ham
pered neither In time nor in activity
ihcre Is no limitation to what we may
cxpect from the coming generation.
DR.. Mosher said. however, that the
world must never lose sight OF woman
primal function, motherhood.