The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-21
WOMEN ARE PETTY
AS ECONOMIST
Mrs. Gertrude Anterior Believes
Loss of Success Will Be
Due to That Fault.

Now York, February 20.--Mrs. Ger
trudo Atherton, author Of "The Con-
queror." told the reason why the wo-
man writer could not become a per-
sonnlity, and furnished the recipe for
making woman politician before the
members OF the League for Political
Education at the Berkeley Theatre
yesterday morning. Miss Beatrice
1Iarraden. author OF "ships That Pass
In the Night" told of her fidelity as
militant suffragette. Miss Harraden
was one Of the first members OF Mrs
Pankhurst's lighting force.
AT her own request Mrs. Athsrtons
talk was given in the form Of an in
tcrviow, r. f. Ely acting as inter-
viewer, and her first response was as
to tho change in position of women
writer's in the last twenty years.
The woman writer's position has
greatly improved" said Mrs. Athcrton,
but the result works two ways. Now
that there are 80 many magazines, even
If part of them live only a short time
1t Is almost impossible for a woman
writer not to be successful financially,
but 1t Is equally Impossible for h. /. to
become personality.
You VIII hardly believe me when I
say that the press to-day is not as
sensational as II used to be- A wo-
man writer OF twenty years ago, cs-
pecially IL she dared to say what she
thought, was the subject for all kinds
81 abuse. Amelie Rives. who came a
iittle before me. met 1t, and when l
caTne along l was treated in the same
way Interviewed, I was said to have
received the reporter dressed In a sky
DUO WraDDnT giffinU In
ior, FEEDING parrot. 1 left the coun-
try voWing I never would return, and
Amele Rives was sick for many years
from the effect of her treatment
But the papers never forgot the
names OF the people they had had so
are doing admirable work, better work
than the men, for they take more trou-
pie. but they never arrive The pa
pers are tired OF women writer's, and
they take no moro notice of them than
when man comes up. II really is
r rnnS You hear people say they have
read such good story, and they
can't remember the name OF the writ
err"
Mrs Anterior told of her political
campaign, For the first time in her
lie she was bosscd continualIy-only
publishers had ever tried anything like
IL betorc and they not for long one
of her experiences was an interview
with eight w. c. #. L. women about
smoking cigarettes.
They finally dragged out of me the
promise that would never do II again
in public" she said
She said women politicians were Just
about like the men. plus petty econ
"my. which would lose them success if
they did not Sive IT up. Further she
advised them. as a politician advised
her:
Take your subject. but not your
self. seriously"
MiHs Harradcn. speaking of women
writer's who at one time or another
took names beginning with George
for nom de pluincs. said
u don't think many women from
now OH viii take the name of
George" And the audience laughed,
knowing the feeling between the Eng
fish suffrhgcttcs and oydGeorge.
She told OF tho effect of the suffra-
sette movement on English women in
general development, OF the class bar
riers broken and how women of all
ages were coming into the movement.
Speaking OF her appreciation OF the
suffragette leaders, she said:
II had not been five minutes with
Mrs. Pankhurst and her companions
before i saw the kind of women they
were. They have removed sham halos
from Cabinet ministers and members
OF Parliament"