The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-11-09
GIVES HER A CORNER
IN REPORTERS ROOM
She Starts q Conversation and
is Answered in
MOnosylIabIss

Topeka Nov. 9.-The suffragettes
have lost one powerful disciple, .diss
Matille Howe. daughter cs Ed Howe,
editor of the Atehison Globe. and au-
thor of The Story of Country
Town One days work in her faith
er's printshop caused her to change
her mind.
Miss Howe, like many other daugh
tcrs of Western rich men. felt that
women are not getting a square deal
in the pursuit of happiness and pow
e.. She believed that the suffragettes
of England and the United States are
on the right track and that their plan
Of campaign will soon result in the
emancipation ,of the gentler SEX She
took a greas interest in the movement.
Her father combated the idea. He
tried to convince her that a woman's
place was at home and that the men
folk should look after business and pol
itics for the family. But Miss Howe
kept up her discussion.
Father Finds A Cure
Finally her fathe. said "Daugh
ter, IL women must run the country,
they must also do the work Now
propose TO let you test some Of you
suffragette IDEAS viii make you
reporter at a regular salary You
viii be treated just the same as cl.ieF
reporters-no better. no worse. II
You can demonstrate that downtown
work is more suitable to women thar
work around home, then, \ will with
draw my objections and let You earn
your own way and be a suffragette.
Miss Howe said that was fair prop
osition and she accepted It. She went
to work the next morning She lasted
just a part Of one day She is no long
err suffragette. Here Is what She
says of the experience:
Her Idea OF Work
My idea was TO sail down about y
O'Clock. gossip a little with The force
dash off an article or two on the type
writer, have lunch aud 90 home m
stead | was routed out in the middle
Of the night when II was still dark
and when al women are sill fast
asleep. was hurried through bleak
fast and out in the cold 70 run for q
car. The ear was fun Of men. no wo-
men.
II got to the office and was given a
corner with some other reporters.
sat down and started a conversation,
but they answered IN monosyllables.
ltr a few minutes elch one grabbed
his or her hat and dashed ont They
came back at various times. rushed
to their machines and began to write
al a rate that got on my nerves, When
thoy had finished their mad race with
the typewriter they rushed out again
Il tried 70 write. but the combined
noise OF dozen typewrlters almost
drove me mad
She is Nos Noticed
Il left my corner and wandered
around. Nobody noticed me Away
before they had stopped to talk now
ii was one OF the force. There was moi
a quiet place to be found for a mo
ment. There was not room where
II could be alone and away from the
rush and noise. How they could al
work at the tension that they all seen
j ed to take as a matter of course wa
Fl uiVft tttH tVHN NhNtt otahhs
"The noise continued, tie typewlit
ers we're going all the time. the tele
phones were ringing continually ant
outside on the street the noise D
The wagons and people helped 10 make
i more deafening. Invent out to lunc,
and ate with about fifty men. all eat
4 ing at the same rate the typewriier'
were running
Il was SO unstrung that | fell
/ would have fit on the spot wen
! back TO the office There things were
going in the same old way.
Finally horrible earthquake sor
of noise started from underneath. !
was only the paper going to press. No
body else noticed Il But could stan'
the racket no longer grabbed m,
hat and struck for home, where
laid down and rested
after waking | thought the who'll
1 thing over and reached the conclr
sion the downtown work was mean
for men and henceforth am wlllinl
10 let them do t. They can run tn
business of the country and its POI
/ itIcs. too. for all care. No suffTa
gette business for me any more