New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-14
AUTHOR PLEADS
IN OPEN MARKET
Booksellers OF America
Hear Mrs. Bacon Reveal
Secrets Of Book.
POINTS OUT FAULTS
IN MERRY SPEECH
Conditions That Rule War Suf.
ferers Explained to Five
Hundred at Meeting.

4 woman author who has written
twenty-five count them, twenty-five -
books stood up among five hundred
booksellers and publishers last night
at the Hotel Aston and made public
confession Of what she privately
thought of her latest effort
81 tried to combine the style Of Mrs
Edith Wharton, the passion Of Ella
Wheeler Wilcox, the heart interest Of
Laura Jean Li5hey and the detail of
Henry James. But the book is physo-
logically impossible. has no detail at
all and is geosrap h.cally weak" she
said
They teach reporters on this news
paper to Put The facts in somewhere in
the story. and so IL may as well be
mentioned mere as elsewhere that the
lady author was Mrs. Josephine Dodge
Dassam Bacon, and the book The Open
Market"
Before she told how she paralyzcd
her hero. because that was the only
way TO keep HIM undiscovered in the
woods until he grew up. she explained
that she was very much frightened at
being asked 10 speak. ~ prayed two
hours ago that God would drown me in
the bath tub. But God so seldom
browns any one in the bath tub" she
said.
But she did not look bit frightened
IS she stood behind the speakers table,
dressed in most becoming white
gown. Glet Of pearls about her black
hair and q bouquet Of gardeGias in
her hand. In fact, she seemed a very
accv toned speaker And she must
be, for, as she said to the American
booksellers Association:
Plea for Feminism.
Three weeks ago / was told that a
body Of women would finance me IL
would lead the feminist movement
from Maine 10 California. Of course,
/ don't know much about feminism.
I'm frightfully ignorant about lot
Of things.
an Chicago, little while ago, some
body asked me. What do you think Of
McOutchcon In New YORK" And
thought d minute and said, Nc
Cutcucon? McCutchcon Well, think
you can DO as we'll there for linens as
anywhere else
"BIt The fcmin;sts arc not the only
ones chat want me. | have been asked
to speak IL the South against the foot
amt mouth disease. / asked them what
] should say And they said, on, just
talk Ike YOU always do."
Prof. Edwin j. Clapp, of New York
University, talked about the European
war from an economic standpoint, and
DR.. Richard Burton, Of the University
Of Minnesota and president Of the
Drama League Of America, made an
anus nC speech. I'm the middle Of
which he absolutely dlsclaimed the
following limerick ascribed TO him:
For beauty am not n star;
Others are better by far:
Bot my face. don't mind il
Because I'm behind it;
us the people in front that | Jar.
The last speaker was DR.. Hendrix
W.'rm Van Loon, who spoke with 4
British accent and an American sense
OF humor knew all about baseball.
Anthony Comstock and the movies and
reads THE Saturday Evening Post" He
War present az the siege Of Antwerp.
"Im not war CORE pendent. / never
had my picture taken on top Of a
trench" he said. and then went on 10
tell about the flight from Antwerp and
described so graphically the chill
drcu's little wooden shoes click-cick-
ing cndicssly over the cobblestones
il made ore regret one had 20 hurry
20 catch the Shouts special for Park
Row.