Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-25

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interests of social advancement. 4
recess which is bound to he dlsas-
trous in the long rum
Yet Professor Holmes evidently
thinks that the new woman.s
treachery to the race is more .nVol-
untary than it is deliberate. She Is,
he shows. largely a victim o. her W
! environment merely the product OF
an industrial age which Is devoted
to the accumulation and guarding or
property-not children. AS man.
other students of the problem nave
pointed out, women are SIMPLY Az
| sorbed by industry as everything
else is being absorbed by Industry,
which is like a huge sponge that
will some day absorb the race itself.
Every year., an increasing number
VI young women enter sedentary oc-
equations IN business offices anu
shops which, Professor Hoimes
thinks, contribute to their physical
debility and multiply the
of CHI idFirth. There is no doubt he
says, that the conditions Of present.
day civilization have in the last rev
generations seriously weakened the
physique of the modern civiiized
woman For one thing both her
| NIlllIlSI ltSS anu Lpiiihy
, children has decreased very consid-
q ably-an unquestioned disadvan-
tage to her offspring. as it has been
found. according to a medical au-
thcrity quoted by Holmes that
breast fed babies + superior In
later life to those artificially fed,
In weight, character of teeth. INTEL
l'gence, and general physical eve
opment."
Only a few years age the majority
IF girls of American upper middle
class families of refinement and ed
ucation were not dashing madly
around in the industrial world. They
stayed home and married and had
babies and did very little else. 1t wai
doubtless less exciting than directing
a personnel department of a large
industrial concern or selling bonds
hut it was it seems. better for the
race in general. The stay at home
method at least was more conducive
70 the reproduction of superior
} stock. Now, it is the Immigrant
woman who remains at home and hai
! the babies and nurses them into su
: perior health and enduring vigor.
5 Thus, If you follow Professo!
, Holmes argument to its logical con
] clusions, you reach the pleasan
prospect of a race ultimately reduce,
to the general level of intelligence
: of Little Italy. OF course, the who'll
argument will strike you as distinct.
t absurb unless o believe in the gen
( orally accepted theory that menta
I ability is hereditary.
( still" declared n college gin
t in discussing her share of RESPONSE
bility in speeding the race to 1t
n doom. II don't see what we are go
ing to do about It. You can't Tea
t into matrimony as easily as you ca
leap into a job, and it seldom pays a
o well. This is a day of money may
irg and quick profits, and there's n
. money making or quick profit In ha
ing babies. Perhaps il the rae
? would only pay us for having gooc
strong, healthy, bright children a
well as 1t pays us for facilitating 1t
business, we might get really inter
ested and do our best to save It fror
ruin. Perhaps the day will con
when the state will recognize moth
y erhood as a valuable service, an
renunerate it accurately-make
worth WHILE"
Another college girl believes thu
the modern woman would take NOR
interest in matrimony ami mother
hood if there We're only
sreater preponderance OF intelliger
males.
II firmly believe" she says, "thi
the average college woman Is pei
fvctly willing to marry and ha,
children. The trouble is-whom
SHE to marry? Her mentality hs
been developed and she is no long'
content to spend her life with
man who has no interests beyor
the stock market or the latest mus
cal comedy. The college girl
taught to think, to AXE an intere
in politics and economics, drama ar
art; and what companionship CO
she find In the average man who
ideas on labor are If they did a Ii
the work they wouldn't have muG
to growl at. Bolsheviks all
them Or on politics. We shou
worry about Europe. We ha
enough troubles of our own
man who finds a symphony a. DO
and to whom theatre means me
~ Ed Wynn or AL Jolson. VIII
wonder that the college woman FIN
more congenial companies ship In h
own sex and prefers to make her ov
living rather than to marry a m
she cannot respect.
professor Holmes should div
the lace. He should not place 1t
mis- responsibility for the trend
lin the New Woman but hand half
IIit to the Old Man."