Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-08-02 | Page 1 | Primitive Woman Was Man's Equal

PRIMITIVE WOMAN I WAS MAN'S EQUAL I Chicago, Aug. 2. Professor L G 11 Scherger, of the departments ot po- mw litical economy and history of armour fcf V institute in an address to members nIM' of the Cook county suffrage assocla- t tion last night said that in primitive .' mt times when tho men went away to- k IB their war6. their hunting and their jM pastimes, leaving their wives at home M to do the drudging, men and women gl wero more on an equality than they wia are now. :U "It waB tho work the women did fii'mm that put them on a par with men." EVH sld tho spaeaker. ,rWhen thoy com- -B mencod to take it easy thoy degen- Wt ernled They should recelvo at least S equal recognition with men because 2 they were the first farmers, carpen- j tors and builders of homos and tho MWM first to take up art by making pot- LWM tery. Tihey were bIbo the first writ- jH crs and tho first tamers of domestic MWM animals."