The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

I'VE discovered how Arnold Bennett F managed to write that famous book of his, How to Live On Twenty four Hours a Day" he had one of those nice little six-pound Corona typewriters like Miss Frances Carpenter carries about with her and he used it probably as much as she does; hence, he never lost an hour a minute or even a second, but utilized all the 24 and occasionally fin ished his work.
 When I went in to see Miss Carpenter yesterday-you know what sort of a day 1t was: pouring down pitchforks-she was packing her trunk, getting ready to leave on the o'clock train; Senator Underwood and the young lady's famous author writer father, MT. Frank G. Carpenter were exchanging a few farewell words everything was in a whirl, my poor httle brain, most of all, and the only really quiet thing anywhere about us was the cunning little Corona" which, if you please. is always the last thing that is packed, and it has made trip around the world with Miss Carpenter and her father, and also enjoyed itself hugely in Alaska while these clever people so- journed there for three months.
 I felt after I had gotten few dots for my story it was awfully unsatlsfac- tory. the whirl and the dash and the turmoil that when it appeared in print Miss Carpenter would feel very much like my friend, MT. Irwin s. Cobb told me he felt under similar circumstances once- MT. Cobb said when MT. Bayard Vell- ler's Back Home," dramatization ot his (Mr. Cobbs short stories) had US first night in New York there were louo cries of Author Authorv and that he' Mir. Cobb, was projected upon the stage having matched with Mr. Veiller half making the speech and being the loser The play-later failure-was hardly recognizable to MT. Cobb; you know how they say plays made from books are never like the books, and that he ear nestly confided to the audience that the only things that belonged to his DOCK which were recognizable in the play were a semi-c colon, a period, two commas ana d..
 The application of this story to this ''1nterV1oW IS tfldt MISS Soi PCiitoi i't'5 feel the same way about it as MT. Cobb did when he saw MT. Veiller's play as she'll probably not recognize a word oi hers but anyway she's an awfully nice young woman and I'm sure if put in or leave out things-in other words, don stick precisely to the text-shell know that it was just the confusion and the hurry and my timidity.
 Miss Frances Carpenter is the illustri-
 ,.z.-e ,nr,. hO' her fathers secretary his companion, and the idol of his heart. which is dis cernible at a glance. She's very whole some, charming young woman, who has been all over the world mixed with all sorts of people, and is cosmopolitan to her finger tips.
 She is unusually attractive with gra- cious cordial manner and her v6ce was particularly appealing to me; soft and veilad and somewhat husky, but very ln- dividual and appealing; voice that prob ably never could sing note but that could make of speech music frail and eyanescent as a nocturne of Debussy S.
 My trip to the south has revealed one fact to me and that is that I was wrong in thinking that the southern woman was the 'clinging vine type as I sup posed" Miss Carpenter said prettily upon being asked her impressions of the south. Somehow I had that idea, because southern women are so entirely feminine, so soft and gentle, but to my surprise, with all their sweetness and gentleness they are very progressive and wide awake I found this to be the case in far away Alaska, too. You know, I spent three months there with my father when he was doing lot of work in that section of the country"
 ''The women of Alaska more than any others I have ever seen are robust and wide awake" Miss Carpenter continued. That must necessarily be the case, though. because one must be very robust to stand the climate of Alaska. I had the most wonderful experiences there. We went two thousand miles down the Yukon, in all sorts of wea ather,