The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-03

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arm after careful examination. certain
myself. and I hope thai the results OF
that examination nav make q clear Eas
others that they did not order these
things better IN France. that they did
not order them nearly 50 we'll
Miss Josephine Dodge Daskam is an
astonishing young woman Her stories
Of children have naade her famous and
Ike every other person who makes 4
success in one line. she wants to t=rn
her efforts into other directions Her
verse frankly in imitation Of Steven
sons 'ChIldss Garden OF Verse Is along
one OF these lines. and strangely enough.
writing advertising matter Is another
Toward the latter kind Of work Miss
Daskam has q decided leaning and uok
at all because this kind OF writing IS
more profitable than most kinds Of
authorship She says she likes TO write
vertisenents. Esvidens4y she does. for
already her name appears over a long
announcement OF one Of tha magazines
which she has written Naturally
enough a good many OF her admirers
are holding up their hands in horror
over the situation. but Miss Daskau
does not worry about that That she
likes to throw bornbshalIs about is evil
dent to those who have read the ac-
count Of her speech to the Puritan moth
ers az their last meeting.
Hang on TO your privileges and let
your rights go, said Miss Daskam 70
the mothers. which was not exactly
what the mothers were eypectirg since
It is wen known that they are support
ing WOmens rights The women who
are most vaEantIy anxious to get their
rights seem TO FORGET one thing" she
said They forget that the party OF
the first partly that mean our broth
er-is today right where he was IN the
beginning. He has the same number OF
advantages he always had. The woman
Of today has al these and about T53
broader and her back no stronger than
It ever was There ara
two things which women must always
have had since the creation to be sue
cessfuI. and those TWO things are the
same IN the far-oH Islands Of the Pa
cttc and in the high school in Masza-
chusetts. A woman 70 be successful
must be good and she must be charm
ing You may think Of her charm as
her parliamentary ability, her orator1-
cal power or her excellent canning OF
peaches. but she has got TO have It.
And # she Is not good the werld can't
progress There may be something in
teresting n the bad woman but she
that was the main purpose OF our crea-
ton. Z think If q woman Is good and
nothing else, she will be as dali as any
thing the world ever made but If sha
can be good and charming her heritage
and posterity can ask absolutely nothing
better
Miss Daskam gotsorne applaus through
her speech but it was very evident that
her remarks did not exactly coincide
with the views Of some of the mothers.
When she finished Mrs. Blake, the pres
ident before introducing the next speak
er. said.
7 think we all enjoyed hearing Miss
Daskams remarks. but possibly Il she
was a woman in the civil service and
had not written books and had not got
paid like man her view point would
be somewhat different"
New York has been entertaining dur
ing the past few days an unusual num-
Der of out-of-toWn authors not in a
body. but just in the course Of things
Most OF the well known writer's about
the country visit their publishers now
ana then. and 3 favortte season is that
Of the holidays Perhaps TIE custom
OF making royalty payments about the
first OF the year makes it possible for
many Of the writer's TO make their holt
days a more enjoyable occasion Lloyd
Osborne comes all the way from Cali
York. Alice Caldwell Hogan Rice. re-
Gently married, has just concluded sew
sraI weeks stay in the city which must
have been gladdened by the fact that
she has made a record for her publish
ers- Her Mrs Wigs Of the Cabbage
Patch is said TO be the best selling
book her publishers ever had Booth
Harrington spends deal Of time III
the east and mas only recently returned
to Indiana Henry Harlaud will re-
main IN New York for two or three
weeks yet Mr. DaoIey Dunno has
taken up permanent residence here a
good many miles away from A-archv
Road, but It does not seem to make
airy difference with the quality or
popularity Of his Observations Prob
ably more authors live in New York
City than in any three other cities and
there IS scarcely a time when some
visiting members Of the craft ara NOT
70 be found here
HERBERT WALLACE