The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-24
BEATRICE HARRADON, FAMOUS NOVELIST, IS FIFTY TO-DAY.

Beatrice Harradon, the famous
 English novelist, whose Ships That
 Pass in the Night" is still almost as popular as when it was published
 score of years ago. will pass her half century mark to-day. Miss Harra- r don is an ardent advocate of suffrage for women. and she declares that mill itancy will cease only when women get fair play.
 l Personally Miss Harradon is small and slight, with bright, spectac1ed
 eyes. and black hair strealed with
 gray. She is now dreamy. now hut
 morous. now sad. but always she gives the impression of being very
 much alive. She was the youngest daughter of Samuel Harradon, who was scientist of some repute. and an authority on music. Miss Harradon was born in London, and was educat- ed in her native city and in Dresden. Her youthful passions were music and literature, and her magazine contribu- tions, at first unsigned, won such high praise from eminent writers that she determined to devote her life to writ ing. A long and serious Illness inter vened, but at twenty seven she was able to publish her first book. Things Will Take a Turn 8 story for chi1- dren. In 1893 she published Ships That Pass in the Night. which won an immediate popularity, not only in
 England, but Throughout the English speaking world. Large editions of 1t are still published and sold, and it promises to have a permanent value Al isten a mum Der Of novels, all of them excellent. but she has never been able to score as great a success as with her first novel. Miss Harradon visit ed America last year for the first time since the publication of Ships That Pass in the Night. 7
 Miss Harradon was the first woman
 realist. and her masculine characters
 have always been very human and livery frail, and quite different from the angelic heroes who strut through the pages of the average book by 9
 feminine novelist. Who does not re member the disagreeable man in Ships That Pass in the Nfght?" And Ithe .'heros in aOut of the Wreck I
 Rise,,' her latest novel. Is quite as un-l lovely a person.
 l Miss Harradon declares that she l Ihas been falsely quoted in saying that l ltile world could get along without
 men. ..one of the principal reasons
 for my adherence to the feminist movement she explains, s.is that I believe that it's success will bring about a closer and more loyal union between. the sexes. Perfect com
 radeship and equality is bound to be an improvement over the relation be-
 tween master and slave.
 I .I am very fond Of men, said the lspinster novelist. .sand have always llfked them ss know that they have many excellent qualities I've. enjoy
 ed some splendid comradeships with l men, and the fact that am a rnili- ltant suffragist does not lead me to Q lsweepfng condemnation Of half of the
 human race. =
 "One of the first results of suffra- gist success Miss Harradon believes l twill be the Improvement In social power they will not permit the labor Iof little children We shall find some
 way of rescuing the women of the streelS. Already we are learning not
 to draw our skirts aside from them.
 and they are more willing to be help ed. since they do not scent the pa tronage beneath the pity. We shall
 Hook after the aged and sick, the chill
 dren. the helpless and the oppressed. ] The education of the individual wo-
 man is another important develop nnent of the woman movement. At
 last there is an original ferninine
 viewpoint, not super-impose by men or masculine tradition. It is char Iacterized by an immense loyalty based on immense pride We are so proud
 of wonlanhood that we feel we must
 be loyal to all other woman. We l have flung away surface distinctions l of position or property or occnpa- ton, and we realize at last that, rich or poor, wife or spinster, hshwoman or great actress. we're all women. We thave dropped the critical attitude
 that has kept women apart for cen. l tdries.''
 A tablet at the Young Mems Chris 1fian Assocfation in Rirkenf1ead Eng