The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-01-05

Team work. !" observed Miss MAJ


Team wsrk," observed Miss Maria
Thompson Daviess. lis tho secret OF
success and happiness. Every great
work of art is the result of team
work. SO is every happy marriage.
"And the happiest marriage is that
wherein the man aud woman weep
! load: not where there is a matrimon-
ial tandem wherein one-half of the
team does the .prancing and the 9th
er half does the work. In the PAST
you know, men have done too much
prancing and women too much work,
for which they got no credit. Every
great book er poem or picture or
symphony is 1he result of collabora-
ton between man and woman"
found that the author OF "The
Melting of Molly" and THE Dare
deyil'' is much interested just now in
the subject of team work, because
she has just dramatized her first
great success, "The Melting of Mol
ly," in collaboration with Irene
Franklin. who will star in it.
Irene Franklin afd / wrote our
play together" Miss Daviess told
} me. later three men dramatists had
tackled the book and failed misera-
bly,. We wrote "a hours at time.
working together and never once
! having the slightest tin. Now that
is very unusual state of affairs be.
tween two women until recently.
The trouble with women's move
ments. you know, was that women
had no sense OF solidarity, hadn't
learned TO pull together. You see
men learn the rules OF the game
very early. They play marbles to-
gether when they are boys, and they
, learn to abide by the rules of the
game, but the girl sits on by hcr-
self and sews for her doll. She
doesn't know until she is quite grown
up that there are any rules.
"The most perfect form of collab-
grafton exists between a man and
woman who are one in mind. one in
heart, one in work. Agnes and Egg
erton Castle are examples OF this per-
feet collaboration. Their novels
are wonderfully interesting and yet
you can always tell which part Mrs.
Castle wrote and which part is the
work OF her husband Yet it is Il
perfect whole.
"a great many works OF art" | in
terposed. ARE the joint product OF
man and woman, although only
the mans name is signed to them :
There are so many men novelists who /,
are merely peeping Toms at the /,
hearts OF the women who have loved /,
Them. Take Marcel Provost, for in
stance. There are things in his |
Letters of Women that no man pos /,
;ibly could know unless woman had !
told him OF them
II agree with YOU" Miss Davies .
greatness, the mold in which all great .
works of art have developed. And .
men are coming more and more To !
the realization that the matriX is .
more important, more beautiful than !
the jewel.
Woman has been the silent part /
/
cry work of art is born of the mar
riage of true minds, The perfect
marriage is the jewel OF human life,
/ am more conscious of that fact
perhaps because am unmarried, DO
you know ! believe the unmarried
woman keeps a glamour about love
that the married woman cannot pos
sess? In other words. in order 10
appreciate marriage You have TO he
unmarried yourself and to write |
about love you must not have eXpe-
rienced It's completeness
''You are quite right" admitted. !
I'VE cannot expect to marry the great
romance and keep it, too. Day by
day, year by year its great moments /
are overland with the dust Of domes-
ITCHY. Yet OF course there rs no |
woman married who would exchange |
her lot for that of the girl who |
couldn't get her husband
81 should say not" Miss Davies
exclaimed. And il a romance Is
kept properly busted it is just as
bright at the end of 20 years. HUI
man happiness like every other jew
ell is the product OF time and growth.
"a diamond Is not born in min
ute and neither is happy marriage,
II must grow and develop, crystalize
from unselGshness and devotion. II
must be built up by little daily CON
tracts, duties, worries, cares. There
is no other human relation that gives
F.t haK.