The Washington herald., 1909-05-02

left q year later. when she married Gil
bert Claude LutZ. a New York illustrator
and newspaper correspondent
Since then she has published three
books. The DigTessiOns OF Polly The
Widow" a delightful little dialogue-lOve
story. and The Reflections Of a Bache-
lor Girl" which appeared this spring. In
q few short years, she has established
a unique place for herself among present
day humorists and satirists. and her pithy
writings have appeared net only In news
papers and magazines al over the United
States. but in London as well. where her
book. Reflections OF a Bachelor Girl, Z"
has already made something Of sensa-
ton.
Not until Miss Rowland took I'D the
cudgeis In behalf Of her sex. did Il oc-
cur to any man that there could be any
thing humorous about himself From
time immemorisl. woman and her weak
nesses have been the standing jokes at
which every wit aimed his shafts, but
with two-edged cynIclsm, Mss Rowland
has turned the weapons and given Mere
Man the most thorough grilling he ever
has received
The man who reads ''The Reflections
Of a Bachelor Girl from cover to cover
viii lay It down with feeling Of humility
akin TO pain On second thoughts be viii
probably hasten TO hide II from his wife;
for, as the Bachelor Cir! says;
It's q wise wife who knows how 1T
tie she knows about her husband
Knows About Love Game.
But what the Bachelor Girl doesn't
know about men and the love game isn't
worth knowing. She touches the very
weil-spring OF masculine motives and
methods, puts her finger on the tender
spot. and rubs the medicine in. Yet all
this Is done so good naturedIy and in such
a genial spirit that there is a laugh in
every line.
"Of course" sighed Miss Rowland.
whom The Washington Herald CORE
spondent found at work in her husbands
New York studio. under a huge skyIlght
among a variegated collection OF curios.
rugs, leopold skins. and sO-caIled Junk
collected from many lands; of course,
marriage has been q Dreadful blight, as
vel as a source Of material In my writ
ing. Il is such a temptation 70 lean back
IN the shafts Of nstrimony and let
mere man DO all the pulling. But about
a year ago I picked up a little book, by
Geiett Burgess, which found on the
deck Of steamer returning from Eu-
rope. And that book stirred all my writ
ing and lighting blood IN il the author
declared that woman was a Joke; that
she knew she was a Joke, and that she
q al
nothing humorous about a man
'sWelli I fancy I've reTenged our sex
for that INSULT Heavensi II you couldn't
look upon the bright side and take q man
as q joke. life would, indeed be very,
very sad!
But the amazing thing TO me Is that 50
many people fancy am a man-hater
Do / look ike uan-hater? Do man
haters curl their front hair and wear
fancy slippers and perfume their note
paper. Nov. wouldn't yOu fancy they
would know that none but a married
woman with daily home hints from her
husband could write the things I write?
Besides, only married woman has a
genuine right TO be disappointed in love.
BrainstOrm Soon Cured.
This is the way It is done. For IN
stance. when something goes wrong with
my husbands collar button and there is
a brzinstorm in the dreesing-room and
the bulldog gets the benefit Of II, I rush
for ny desk and write:
One advantage OF a bulldog over
baby is that you are not haunted BY the
narrowing fear that ne VIII grow I'D TO
resemble his father And that cures the
brainstormi"
So yOu see. II is not so much inspira-
ton as desperation that has driven me to
write 1t was desperation in the very
beginning; for the career Of an author
in q garret was the last IN the world I
should have chosen wrote, not as most
authors declare, because was burning