East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-21
BLANCHE BATES TELLS WHY GIRLS
OF EAST COME WEST FOR HUSBANDS

I most laborious reading is the sport
= section OF the daily papers, in whic
l the prowess of Mike" Donlin an
e 'Christy" Mathewson Is chronicled Il
; slang, Mentally barren, physicall
e de-energized, the New Yorker is NJ
e match for the vigorous, ambition
5 maiden who is his logical wife.
e Westerners Carve Own Fortunes.
: On the contrary, the young man o
the west is carving his own fortun,
; with his athletic hands, for his fore
, fathers have not saved him the trou
/ BILE and the inestimable benefit Of
earning his living In the turmoil Of
business, in the dangers and labor.
J of settling unpeopled lands, in the
founding of new states he is harden
ing the sinews OF his mind and will
and body into the masterful creature
of energy and resolution upon whom
every woman, however emancipated,
will confess to herself she yearns to
bestow her love.
Idleness does not drive the average
westerner into debilitating dissipa-
tions. because he is too busy and too
earnest. Perhaps he reads little more
from books than does his langulshing
brother in the east, but he has read
deeply in the lore of nature, human
and physical.
He is not crowded into breathless
tenements, and does not starve him
self by boiling his food with the de-
lirious haste which makes the eastern
restaurant a spectacle of disgust. He
is not taught to mistake aimless hurry
for energy, but works, as strong men
do, calmly and purposefully, making
every moment count. He is too near
the heart of genuine democracy to be-
come a slave of fashion plates, and
feels for society" a good-natured dis
dain.
The typical New Yorker" ex-
claims Miss Bates, "where is his
strength? He is fed on excitement
and he lives at the rate OF a dollar a
day more than he earns. 1t doesn't
seem much at the moment, but 1t
counts up in a week and a year. Then
he finds himself deeply in debt, and
has a terrible struggle to keep his
head above water.
life Is a Gamble
His whole life is artificial, and
based on false standards. With him
life is a gamble"
When asked about its business men
the boast Of New York, by whom it is
willing to stand or fall, the actress |
declared that such men in the metrop- |
oils are puppets, made to dance by
the great capitalists, and tossed ruth
lessly into a closet when their useful |
ness ends.
The business man is all right" !
says Miss Bates. "If he happens to
come from Pittsburg. and the profess
sional man also, il he is a lawyer
from Beaver Falls.
But the so-called business men
who go into Wall street are merely 1
pawns moved about at will by the
men higher up. They call themselves
Wall street business men or brokers,
hold of a string, and, If it burns
hem, drop it; If 1t doesn't burn them
hey hold on.
Wall Street DemOralizing.
That is their business but it IS
by the men who hold the
'ther end of the string, and do just
What they please with 1t.
Wall street is the business you
ear most about in New York. And
is an extremely risky and demoral-
ling business. Up you go and down
GU come, and it usually falls to a
'oman to pick UP the pieces.
Where do the writers on the New
'ork papers come from? From the
'est. Where do the actors come
-om? The same place. The sue
essful men in New York were born
the west, and they are the kind of
len women want for husbands" Z
Declaring that marriages between
ew Workers are mostly unhappy,
.iss Bates spoke from the experience
some Of her friends:
IN the past year" she said "six
,ung women of my acquaintance
ave married young New Workers,
Id today four Of them are back in
eir homes. Doesn't that speak for }
self? These young women are of IS
e honest middle class, not of So J
ETY. or of the stage. It is only fair N
presume that marriage has been a j
lure with four of them through no
ult Of their own" Y
The very freedom which the mod
n girl is permitted in the east re- =
unds to her advantage, in the opin-
\ Of the actress, as surely as it con-
butes to the decentralization Of her 10
others. 49,
"The New York girl has many co
ivileges,' says she. "and on the
lole They're good for her. You see en-
girl of 16 free to go to the matt ~,
es. But she has learned to take hu
re Of herself and when she is mar 90
d will probably know how to take IN,
re Of her husband She may be orl
, stronger Of the two, she Is sure to ia
If she marries the weakling."