Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1900 — MAKES MANY MOTHERS MAD, [ARTICLE]

MAKES MANY MOTHERS MAD,

Address of Professor Chrisman la Resented by 3,000 Women. At the second day’s session of the National Congress of Mothers in Des Moines great indignation was raised by the address of Oscar Chrisman. A. M., Ph. I)., professor of pnidology or child study in the State normal school at Emporia, Kan.. "Men never love as women do,” he said. Instantly the.big convention hall was filled with hisses, and it wns several minutes before the speaker could proceed. He continued to say that women were made for love and men for reason. This was greeted by an indignant protest from 3,600 throats. The professor dropped this branch of the subject and went on with his address. At its conclusion a dozen women leaped to their feet and demanded recognition. Mrs. Birney, who was presiding, gave the floor to Mrs. Winfield 8. Hall of Berwyn, 111., who cried in a voice that reached the street, “Meij do love!” Mrs. Hall then gave Prof. Chrisman a tongue-lash-ing for fifteen minutes. When she ceased a man and fifteen women jumped up. The man, T. H. Smith of Harlan. lowa, was recognized. “It is false," he said. “Men do love. It is a slander that the professor has given you. He ought to Im» ashamed of himself for standing before this audience and saying such things. Men do love their sweet hearts and wives. As boys they love their mothers. As meu they love their families. Prof. Chrisman has queer ideas for an educator of- the young. He has no business telling this congress of mothers that men do not love. They know better, and I am glad of this magnificent rebuke the speaker has suffered justly' at your hands.” The man closed, and the women cheered. The meetings of the congress were well attended aud full of interest. More than 1,000 delegates were in attendance from out of the town. Policemen had to help keep the doors closed Tuesday oh account of the crush. Gov. and Mrs. Shaw received the delegates in a formal reception at the State House Tuesday evening.