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Show I Woman Doctor , Raps Mole of J Amateur Male i i NEW YOKK, Sept. 22. Women were accused of not "playing j fair" ly trying to hold on to privileges priv-ileges granted because of weakness and dependence while at tho same time assorting the doctrine of equality equal-ity with men, in an address delivered deliv-ered today before the international conference of women physicians by Dr. C. Lelia Mosher of Leland Stanford Stan-ford university. Dr. Mosher declared de-clared the old idea that being a woman wo-man was a. handicap must be given up. "The new freedom," said Dr. Mosher, "has entailed sometimes no new idea of a wider, more perfect per-fect filling of woman's own great place in the world but has led only to an imitation of the man; an attempt at-tempt to make herself Into what has been characterized as an 'amateur male.' "We must go back to the old Greek ideal of physical perfection. If we can put aside the old idea that being a woman is a handicap and bring up all girl cliildren of today to-day mentally and physically free, clothe thani so that they may bo hampered neither in time nor work, there is no limitation on what we may expect from tho coming generation." gen-eration." Dr. Mosher added that women must not make the mistake of losing los-ing sight of their primary function of motherhood. "No woman reaches he? fullest development," she said, "who is not a wifo and mother." |