The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-20

who wrote as Charles Egbert Grad
dock, Alice MacGowan and Grace Mac
GoWan Cooke have an equal familiar
ity with the. characteristics of the
mountain people of Tennessee. Ellen
Glasgow understands all the trials Of
the southern people in the generations
since the civil Val and has dealt with
them cleverly in her novels showing
the development of the New South.
Kate Douglass Wiggin, Molly Elliott
Seawell, Gertrude Atherton, Mary
Johnston and Amelia Barr are only a
few of the other modern women nov
elists whose books are giving pleas
ure to the English speaking world.
Detective stories would not be sup
posed to appeal to the talents Of the
woman writer. Yet the detective
stories of Anna Katherine Greene are
believed by many to excel those Of
Sherlock Holmes in their clever I'M
raveling of seemingly unfathomable
crimes. Miss Greene, who now is
Mrs. Charles Rohlfs. also wrote some
pleasing poetry before she turned her
attention to the more absorbing work
of crime solution. Mary Roberts
Rinehart has also excelled in mystery
writing, combining humor and detec-
tive work most effectively.
In the matter OF remuneration,
women writer's have had little to com
plain of. 1t is generally admitted
that their work commands quite as
high a money return as does that of
men. The most fortunate American
woman writer, from a financial stand
point, is Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur-
nett, who now makes her home in
England, although her greatest sue
cess was won in her own country.
Her Little Lord Fauntleroy" attract
ed the attention of the world. Glad
stone quoted from it in illustration
of a point in his celebrated contro-
versy with Blaine over Free Trade VS..
The Tariff. 1t was translated in
several languages and put upon he
stage. Mrs. Burnett has been a pro-
life writer and her royalties have
given her a princely fortune. Most
of her novels have been staged by
herself, thus affording a double profit.
The Making of a Warehouses" "A
Lady of Quality "a Fair Barbarian"
"The Petty Sister of joe are among
her best known works.
Women have won so important a
place in journalism that there are few
important periodicals which do not
employ women upon their staffs. 1t
is not necessary that a woman attempt
to do the same work as a man, even
upon the staff of a daily newspaper.
Every editor now recognizes that there
are certain lines of work which a
woman can do even better than a
man. The number of women d
render the feminine viewpoint a mat
ter of financial consideration and this
has had no small influence in the en-
ployment of women upon the staff Of
many a newspaper. While in the
minds of some, newspaper work is dis
tinctly different from other literature,
the one frequently leads to the other.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was a well known
emotional poet who in late years has
become a regular member of a news
paper staff, as has also Mrs. Chalmers,
who as Dorothy Dix, has written
negro dialect stories considered cas-
terpieces in their class. n of the
first women to attract the attention of
women to newspaper work, Was Eliza
beth Cochran, who under the name of
Nellie BLY, made, a trip around the
world for the New York World in
record time. Miss Elizabeth Bisland,
a Louisiana girl, attempted to compete
with her under the direction of The
Cosmopolitan" magazine upon the
staff of which she was employed q
number of years