The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-06-20
MRS. ALICE HARTMAN.

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MRS. ALICE HARTMAN.
II your capital did not exceed 1925
would you venture it all upon the pub
licati0n of a book Of verse!
II look. before You leap" is your
rule of life you probably wouldn't. but
Mrs. Alice Hartman. the woman who
did. lives up to the theory that moth
ing ventured is nothing gained"
Mrs. Hartman. by the way. was a
Seattle woman by adoption and is
naturally imbued with the venture
some spirit of the great northwest, 50
when she decided to put out a volume
Of verse. Songs o. the Sound" at her
" expense her friends were fearful
Of success. but not surprised at the
daring move.
This little volume. which appeared
in a dress to attract tourists, was con
spicuously displayed in all the book
stores of 1.-The Puget sound country"
and in less than ten days paid for It.
self and justified the authors business
sixth sense. a ems she had evidently
lived without up to this time.
Indeed. Mrs. Hartman was utterly
ignorant of the simplest business meth
DDS when she started out. Yet in five
years. alone and entirely unaided. she
has built up a publishing business of
sufficient importance to straddle the
continent. for the Alice Hartman Pub
fishing company has Offices both in
New York city and in Seattle.
The business really started in the
following way: THE Songs o the
Sound" caught the eye of a wealthy
and influential woman of Seattle. who
asked Mrs. Hartman to publish men,
oirs Of her father. a a of political
Importance and 1.-The father of Seattle
Although ignorant Of the first princi-
pies Of the technical part of publishing.
she consented. BY studying books
brought out BY the big publishing
houses she was able to pattern her
book upon them. These memoirs gave
Mrs. Hartman her first real piece of
business, and the venture was so sue
cessful that other books were offered
her for publication But the publica-
ton that was most influential in deter.
publishers had fought shy OLA French
translation made by Lafcadio Hearn.
Now, with the exception Of her Sec
retarial staff. Mrs. Hartman is the
whole publishing outfit She designs
covers. wrappers. circulars and does
the makeup and whatever other part
Of the profession demanding individual
attention. Then she turns the manu-
scripts over to the printer and binder.
Mrs. Hartman confesses that she
does not belong to the domestic type
81 woman, and. although she could
mix a salad or bake good bread. she
would be utterly incapable of turning
ont a sartorial CONNECTION on the slit
skirt order. She prides herself upon
being womaply Tor a. thaks&S She would,
rather write q poem than pay q visit
"A business woman" Mrs. Hartman
says. docs not have to wear mannish
clothes. affect mems walk or mems
language or manners" There is no
reason why q woman to be successful
In the business world should be lone
OF the boys" What a woman does
need Ii q love Of and devotion to her
work. and to this devotion Mrs. Har.
nman attributes her success In q 6eld
not hitherto entered BY woman.
Mrs. Hartman. too. ts unlike her sis
ters in another ~respect-she has no
feeling whatever about telling her age.
Indeed. she frankly and ~fearlessly ad-
mits that she had ' published q
lire or thought Of bringing out any.
body's ideas In book form until she
had reached her forty-6fth year. Mrs
Hartman has been In business I'VE
years. The rest Ii plain sailing.