Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-13
RIB HAS TURNED!'
W SHE TELLS MEN
Women Applaud as Miss Helen
Rowland Acclainls Her Sex
as Humorists.
.rhe RIO Has Turned

The RID Has Turned!
This announcement on the part Of
( Miss Helen Rowland, of the special
stan of New York evening news
paper. made before the members and
guests of the New Jersey Woman's
Press Club at the clubs annual re-
ception in Wallace Hall yesterday
afternoon. was received with the ac-
olamation il deserved.
The remark was made regarding
the development of womankind in
he world Of letters in general and
hamor in particular.
Time was when woman was sup
posed TO have no sense of humor.
Miss Rowland continued; she was
not even supposed to be able to see
Joke: she was the original, perennial
joke herself, in mans eyes.
Tho joke about the way a woman
sharpens her pencil and the one
shout the way she gets on a troll
ley car and the one about the
way she hooks up her dress in the
hack have kept the wolf away from
professional masculine humorists'
doors for years and years.
A woman was never supposed to
see anything funny in the spectacle
Of man shaving himself before a
mirror. with his top locks all awry.
IF she laughed at a man she was sup
POSED 10 be crazy. because man, SUI
perior being that he was. was not
supposed to be laughed at, continued
tho speaker. the satirical CLEAN in her
ewes belying the gravity of her face.
Her BIT OF Satire.
Man has always been so coclxsure
Of being right. Look at the way he
saarpens a pencil. To sharpen it on
c.e,s thumb. with the danger of cut
ting Oft section and of soiling the
hands. is the right way because it is
mans way. To sharpen it away from
one in perfect safety is screamlngly
funny. because it's womans way.
But II is slowly dawning upon men
that woman's sense of humor is to be
reckoned with. To my mind it is the
miracle of the age that room has
been made in the world Of letters for
the professional woman humorist"
Miss Rowland named a number of
prominent women authors and play
rights
She said that this development of
her sense of humor on the part of
woman meant more for home happi-
ness than anything else. For It is
not in their working hours but in
their hours of relaxation that man
and wife are thrown together" she
explained, and when they can laugh
together and see the funny side of
things from the same angle there is
small danger of boredom and desire |
to seek amusement elsewhere. And |
Well maN We be glad that the rib |
has turned
seeing Face TO Face.
Men and women are beginning to !
zee each other as they are. Woman
used To he incomprehensible to man
therefore he thought her a joke Her
ways of doing things were highly
llldicrous because they were not his
wens. He eouldn't bring himself to
take her seriously or to consider her
remarks of any import And woman
booked upon him as a strange crea-
fure OF Nierd habits and tastes, to be
&ept in good humor at all hazards
s.Now they are beginning to
understand each other. to the advan-
fage Of all concerned Since her sense
of humor's development woman sees
man as he really is, a creature of
mind and matter. pretty much like
herself"
Shifting To journalism. her own
field, Miss Rowland told of the early
days when newspaper women wore
derby hats and encountered thrilling
experiences for the sake of describing
them. Then she passed TO the next
frfI nj
in a picture hat and flowing gown en-
tered the managing EDITORS Office and
buncoed him into taking lot of ele-
waiting stuff as to how to make a
bungalow from a leftover folding bed
and the way TO make rice pudding
Y out OF a straw hat,
And then she told of the newspaper
woman of the moment, and of her
fixed place in the journalistic world,
SO frnly established that papers that
had no women writer's often sent men
TO get personal interviews with prom
intnt felix, and these interviews had
feminine signatures.
In closing Mrs. Rowland read some
81 her own contributions Thomas
T.. Mason. editor Of Life. the other
speaker OF the afternoon, emphasized
the value of art in any line of work,
whether writing farming or bring
ing up children. He declared it would
be an aid to the requirement of this
art II every day people would sit still
and Just think He said that It
seemed 10 him that women were
divided into two classes the infantry
and the cavalry. and that much as
re would like 10 make the aequaint
ance of Miss Milholland, he feared
that pleasure would be denied him.
owing to his inability TO ride horse
back.
He declared that Eve was a
splendid reporter and in addition that
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