The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-01-03

| mdn OF girl OF any social position TO
write for publication as it would have
been for her to lead a ballet. So,
to mask an identity that would not
stay masked, the fifteen-year-old au-
thor coined the pen name. Marion
Harland,' and kept-even from herI
own family--the guilty secret that shell
could write.
Her first move, alone" written
when she was eighteen, sold 100000
copies in less than three years. and
made the title, Marion Harlani." too
familiar to the reading public for its
wearer to disregard it in favor Of herl
own name. 1t was not until she had
reached middle age that Marion Har-
land took UP the task of cookbook
making, by which she is today best
known. A friend, arguing against
such homely use of her talent, once
protested:
But household writing is not litera-
ture"
No." answered marion Har1and,"
but il is something better. 1t is help.
fuIness"
| Business Invasion.
While conceding that it is diff
cult task to keep the trades people
from invading their section of Fifth
avenue In and around Fifty-seventh
street, once recognized as the hub of
cision of Harry Payne Whitney. son
Gotham's wealth and fashion. the de-
rof the late former Secretary of the
Navy, to capitulate to-them has caus-
ed deep chagrin To Mrs. Coils P.
Huntington. Mrs. Huntington owns
handsome home on the southwest
corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty-sev.
enth street, directly opposite the
Whitney house and the mansion Of
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. mother-in-
law of young Whitney. What Mrs
Vanderbilt thinks Of the action Of her
son-in-law is not known. but those
familiar with her views respecting
the intrusion Of shopkeepers into Sc.
lect residential sections regard 1t as
more than likely that she is not pleas
ed over it. By many it is taken as
foreshadowing the early surrender OF
the millionaire residents of that por-
ton of the avenue south of Central
. Park to the call of business. The
6 Huntington mansion cost about ST.
= 0O0, 900 to build and the Vanderbilt
I house which takes in the entire block
, up to Fifty-eighth street about 81
= 100000. For years both Mrs. Van
> derbilt and Mrs. Huntington have
been importuned to lease their homes
to tradesmen who offered them a
d larger sum than they could ever hope
to receive from a private tenant, but
each have steadfastIy adhered to their
= resolution to stand pat against any
l invasion Of the district by business.
; Both will now probably sell their
. homes and go further uptown.
Abolish "old Maid"
In the suggestion of Mrs. Phillip
& Snowien, the gifted wife of one of
RI England's Parliamentary members
o that the suffragist. movement tends to
s abolish the ''old maid" as an institu-
r ton, is probably seen an explanation
s for the great accessions that are be
t ing made to the cult in Gotham. On
q the eve Of her departure for England
s Mrs. Snowden spoke Interestingly on
q The subject which is nearest her heart
She said:
The suffragist movement in Eng
land has abolished the old maid
e among educated persons and set for
J. ward ten years the age at which the
5 phrase is still applied opprobriousiy
q among the lower classes
b The suffrage movement has glori-
r fed spinsterhood," Mrs. Snowden ad-
2 ded. Educated men no longer dare
\ to use the phrase old maid as a
term of opprobrium, and even among
the ignorant 1t is not applied until
ei an unmarried woman crosses the
f Rubicon of thirty.
Z "Eere in America where the old
,. chivalrous spirit survives, / have new
q err heard it used. But then. as I said
o while ago, there Is an economic
g reason back of the Americans high
+ estimate of woman-they are scarce
n here"
!, Mrs. Snowden's preference 10 old
r maids was incidental to some remarks
, on the atmosphere of the cid Col
v onial scarcity of women in which
i she declared at a public meeting the
t other night, American women are
e still living.
). mo one who has not lived in both
g England and America" she said, "can
I appreciate the difference in the mas
i culine attitude toward woman in the
Q two countries.
THE EnglishmaE. even The educat-
ed L, .glishman, still regards the wo-
MEN Of his family as his belongings.
' Is an Englishman's wife or daughter
I expresses an opinion on any subject
Il under discussion he may take it toll
l. erantly, but not seriously. Men and
: women are not comrades in Eng and
q as they are here, in every way ex-
g cept politically. Your men ate proud
0 of your women, your women are proud
d Of your men. And American men are
o So chivalrous in their attitude toward
o their wives and toward our Sex in
y general that I believe the apathy or
/. the women is largely responsible for
t. the fact that they are not allowed
L TIC vote.
S ITO get married seemed the only
= honorable thing for a woman until
S very recently" Mrs. Snowden con
tinted. Il was brought up in an Eng
e lish watering place and / can remem-
+ Der that when I was barely twenty
l. nnn a,,.I Ii h not hoor, r,,rn0rcd that