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i " : ; ; ; .f (J) A', PORTLAND, OREGON, , t SUNDAY HORNING, . ' SEPTEMBER -13; 1903 3 1 V. 2 V Vf 1 V 1 V" ' Ti i Acs I A J I IV tin 11 9 r - - r Ji V E AS ii r A fir ' ' - : ; ; Iff ;L x V ; 111 f V -f . I f 1 r. WW idi'i r y Wnmen Have Show What They Gan' Do and Science Iw Backs the Contention. t r 1 V 1 ' L.Jk'fltt. Zdame, you're as good a man as merits were obtained of no less than 1379 young women, and also of their mothers. It was found that m height, bust measure and length of ', limbs the daughters of this generation excel their mothers, who were : the girls of the preceding generation. i f any of us. ' ' Maybe belter. You haven't had a fair ihow, that's all. If you had your rights, according to the dis tinguished authority dn psychological medi cine, Dr. Thomas Ctaye Shaw, of St. Bar tholomew's Hospital, in London, you would be not only the most beautiful creature on earth, but you would stand a fair hance of being 'the wisest and strongest.' ,- Instead of being at the mercy, of cruel, callous, eternally selfish and unsympathetic man, you could walk right vp to -the polls and get a dollar and a half, for your price less privilege of the franchise just the same as he does, or nobly refuse to be bribed, as he to of ten doesn't. . -r You could sweep right into court, at tired in your gown: which ' is ad mirably suited to the roles of the' judiciary, take his place on the bench, and give him thirty Jays for ever tiaving presumed to consider him self your superior in anything. I v V These and men j other prizes of life; are sight within your grasp, according to Dr. Shows philosophf of your psychology, tnentality and muscle. - , " ' - Scr are you behind man in your phys- A teal, development, so. that your brain is go- . tng to have a body tig enough and sound ' 5r Russia crawling into bomb proofs and pulling ,,. the proofs in after him. And she began as the slare wife of a weak emperor, at that. .Talk of lady lion tamers! The empress of , China haa been taming 400,000,000 of them for . more than forty years, while she has been sur rounded with millions of Russian bears and y Japanese leopards getting only an occasional ' lap ' at her blood, although both of them are eager to eat her alive. .' . In art there is Madame Bernhardt, whose record of rfarewells to the stage compares fa- , vorably with that of the empress of China. This is repeated because their records are the well as her acting, either the craft and art-of aa . Irving in England, or of , a Alansfield in .America. Crituvism has neYer-vy.et ventured to -class any one of those three, men as a second rater; and it has not quite dared vaunt any of ' ;them as the Bernhardt's equal. While thinking of queens and kings, real and mimic, one might hunt the whole monarchy of Portugal over and fa.il to find as good a, man as Queen Amelie, jthe weman whose foresight, firmness and prudence shone in such heartening -contrast with the bestial gormandizing" of her spouse, while heft, unflinching courage in the tragedy that ended his dull career was sur passed by no man at no more ter.rible crisis of , history. , , Look beyond the orchestra, and Madame Jfelba, in the domain of song where braina count for as much as . vocal cords can afford 1 'to smile in supreme contempt of the endeavor of even ao splendid a tenor as Caruso to rival her sheer sweetness of melody, in facility of T technique, in the admiration of connoisseurs 1 and in the material earnings of the musical j career. . , '.'''" ,:,,', 'lyi-i . Is it composition f France has her Madame Chaminade, whose works ' are 'enjoyed by" tha ' ; multitude as they are appreciated by the dilet tanti. No composer's style is' mdre distinctive. ' Is it letters I ' Mrs. Humphry , Ward is merely ," one shining light among the . thousands" of f women, who have today left tho male story-tellers only the disagreeable vocations of ' pounding , bricks instead of typewriters or pushing carta ( instead of pencils. 1 ''" -' ' Science!. Madame Curie has given to, sci-. . ence the greatest discovery of the new century.'' FOUNDER OF A RELIGION . - -j. . . -. w - - : : I " .- - -.- . I . . . . , n; crowning glory of both. The world would per- OT to ui tuntU- that, given iimilar.eir-" Tor jmtarieer V . ? 'cumstanoea, you couldn't do a good . '. , ' There' u th; - unprest'- dowager of ; China, ; mit the .retirement of neither, because it too .deal more than has been-accomplished , whoae record of farewells from the stage of her . greatly, admires the one in, too greatly tears cnourh to respond to all the needt of its hurried glance croa,th hrn'riita of human : rood record in -"farewella while her ooition. 1 A for VidfrM IVrahardt's intcHectaal expanding possibilities. - . ' . . . n nd the cez proclivities of "the Boi - as' conquerable - autocrat of China has Em- gra.sr, no man has ye. been found who was over Ovet m En tland scuntifc measure, cert1P1 BP plenty of the high peaks . peror WiEiam'a German imiution torched to anxioua to compare, with hrr acting, that of ''wye measure, . M burg dauactly femiiiiat ia their xutur': a calcined rienrrlmitw.1 with - CnKM FruWor with her taecraft as Religion ? Mrs. Mary Baker O. Eddy founded ' one beside which the Dowie mushroom in re- ligion compared aa the tents of the Arabs com-.) , pare with the eternity in business of the Sphinx. , .: Anything else f Why even down in Texas, ' Mrs. Helen M. King can Tound up oattle better! ; than Dowie ever rounded Tup-souls and skin ' them to a far better profit. - j - : H t i ) There is plenty of proof in history, ancient as well as modern, for the new gospel of ' , . woman's fitness to play man. ' v .1 Dr. Shaw'a unexpected acclaim of the ex t , cellence, if not the superiority, of ! woman '' startled the suffragettes of England into a new . and sublime confidence in the success of .their t! cause, for they were absolutely deaf to. that1. other story which, he intimated, might change ' womankind's notions of the desirability of prov' ing herself man's equal. " J It startled the austere London Lancet into an editorial' which stimulated still further tho sensation the great specialist's dictum had aroused. , ' .' : i "Dr. T. Claye Shaw; that very competent authority," the 'Lancet observes, "greatly tfar - ing, addresses himself to a deliberate compari ' son between the two sexes of the human race. In his . interesting summary of the essential points of resemblance and of dissimilarity of- ,4A in rmr nhapvatinn hv iYin two sexes. Dr. i ' Shaw'a general view of the whole question leads aim to a conclusion which may, perhaps, oes ce , expressed by saying that the resemblances are ' inherent and absolute, while the differences are artificial r accidentaL -I- Dr. Shaw in his summary is equally anxious t to b precise in saying jutt what he does think - about it,-but even the cautious Lancet and his own cautious self fail to fall short of saying, ia so many words, that you, ladies, are men as . much as Any of us. Tea, and sometimes wore. . "There are. men. remarks the great au thority, "of whom it may be "id tha: there is much of the woman in them; and there are what are called masculine women, mho eeem to t composed largely of the attributes of the rr.i! mind. We shall e that much depfcis v; i education and ennrcniaeEt. and that, ncf;t i i oue particular direction, thr it in rf ..'.:. icoxnxvxo c ixsivz. pac z )
