New Britain herald., 1926-10-02
LEARNED WOMEN
 GOOD MOTHERS TOO
Show That They Gan Combine
 This With Careers
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
 Whether women can combine a professional career with the duties Of wife and mother has been a moot question in London since the learned women, chiefly single. gave the ball another sprightly fling at the UniVer- sity Women's conference in Amster- dam.
 Opponents of women entering the learned professions in the old-fash- toned days used 10 argue that nelth- CT the brains nor the bodies Of wom- en were equal 10 the strain. But 1t has been brought out in England that nearly all medical women ap- pear to have found no difficulty in combining their eXacting professions with marriage and motherhood.
 View of Woman Doctor.
 Women Of science, however. are too scientific to think much of mat rimony. This was brought home al Oxford during the meeting of the British Association, there being but one or two married women who par ticipated in the discussionc relating fo science.
 In Field of Science.
 Dr. Mary Scharlieb, dean Of Brit ish medical women, considers that marriage and motherhood are great assets 10 women doctors. Such women" says Dr. Schariieb, "have first hand knowledge of the phys iology and psychology of women such as no other doctor can pos sess."
 Doctor Scharlieb is herself a not able example. She married a barris- ter early in her career and her three children achieved good positions one as q schoolmaster, the second as a medical practitioner, and the third as a medical woman. She Is no exception. Oother women doctors in Harley Street are wives and moth CTS.
 Madame Curie Is brilliant ex- ception to the women of science whose marriage stimulated her stu dies and led to the discovery of ra- dium. With the great French wom- an may be classed the late Lady Huggins, whose youthful interest in the stars developed into partner ship in study and discovery after marriage to the great astronomer, Sir William Huggins.
 The woman novelist is not depen- dent on marital experience in DOT traying passion. Intuition taught Jane Austin the secrets of the heart, as did the three Bronte Sisters, if Charlott's brief year of married life, during which she undoubtedly was handicapped by her clerical husband and ceased to write, is excepted.
 He Helped Her Writing.
 George Eliot's genius required the stimulus of experience. She might have remained a highbrow spinster writing articles for the reviews, il she had not the stimulating com- panionship Of George Henry Lewis Prompted by him she deapt into fame with Adam Bede." In her sec ond husband, Mir. Cross, she again found an invigorating companion.
 Mrs. Flora Annie Steel, dean of British women novelists, has com bined literature and the domestici- ties in remarkable manner. Mar rtage made her novelist. She says that she has never felt that her worth suffered from marriage and motherhood and also thinks that mo woman can really understand life until she has borne children"
 Still, she adds, flor really profes- sional women I rather doubt the wisdom of motherhood"
 Actresses nearly all marry. Miss sybil Thorndike attributes her suc- ces sto the tutelage and aid of her husband, Lewis Casson. She re- Joices, too, as the mother of four children, two boys and two girls. They have helped her to a reallza- tion Of the frenzy of outraged wife hood and motherhood in her DOT trayal of "Medea."
 Dame Clara Butt and Mir Kiner- ley Mumford prove that marriage is no deterrent in the musical profess sion. Asked If she felt her husband and children 10 be q hindrance to her work, Dame Clara laughed at the suggestion.
 As Politician
 The newest profession for women, that of M. P, has an interesting ex- ample in Lady Astor of married partnership in politics Lady Astor has said that If it had not been for my husband would never have en- tered parliament"
 When succession to his title com pelled Lord Astor 10 leave the Com mons for the Lords. he, though "the most domestic creature alive" urg- ed his wife to contest his old seat at Plymouth so that she might work in parliament for the special reforms dear to them both.
 Do my children look neglected ?" Lady Astor often asked, "because I am trying 10 promote better laws for other peoples children?"
 Active In Religion
 Mrs. Louise Creighton, widow Of the late Bishop of London. is an out standing example of a woman tre- mendously active all her married life in parochlal and national church organizations a public speaker, the author of many books, and the mother Of seven children. Mrs. Creighton accomplished the her culean task Of making both ends meet in tho management of Fnlham Palace, when her husband was bishop O London.
 Headmistrcsses and women col lege professors seem the class least able to unite marriage with their profession.
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