The evening world., 1919-10-22


Not TO me may you attribute those
sentiments so reactionary that they
are positively exclting--please do not
stone my windows But when I read
thsm In . magazine article with the
provocative title. "Eve-YesterdAy.
To-Day, Forever the Same" l
thought them interesting and novel
anouxh TO merit further discussion.
80 I subwayed 20 the apartment OF
the courageous author, Mrs. @. We're
Tyler, widely known as novelist,
dramatist and short story writer.
Although she prefers TO stand firmly
ON her fictional feet, Il Is interesting
20 know that Mrs. Tyler Is a mem-
Der Of an old Virginia family and the
daughter-in-law OF President Tyler,
haying married one OF the younger
children of his late second marriage
do you really maintain asked
NErs. Tyler. shat woman has not pro-
crossed at all from our earliest ira
dition of her, that the vote, the pay
envelope and all the other modern
improvements OF her lot have not
made Of her a different person from
the primitive femaie1"
~Let me tell you q little story
eimiiar 10 that Lord Dunsany told
ycu." smiled the heretical analyst Of
her ser. There WAS a woman.
There still IS. SHB DOESN'T
CHANGEi
.Desplte her claims to business,
professional and political achieve
nent isn't woman to-day. II you
but her under microscope. simply
bhat she has ever been--the silent
eader. the enchantress. the temp
Seas, the wife. the mother and
Avery Hopwood's Gold Digger with
he exception Of the arts Of writing
md acting-which depend primarily
ON emotion and Its transference to
An audience-women have not won
supreme distinction in any fieid out
plde the two careers Indicated by ma
sure, the siren and the mother.
swho are the great women imam
eiers7 Who are the nationally
known women manufacturers How
many women are in Congress or the
Senate. or even in state Legisla-
tures7 How many women are domi-
mating forces in shop, once. or fac
toryf
sTt Is conceded that women played
= heroic part In the great struggle
1or world democracy. although even
there the greatest work they did was
nursing. q part Of the immemorial
function OF the mother. But because,
IN an emergency. they took the place
az men In shops and factories. In
elevators and street cars. have
women done anything OF permanent
value for themselves and the world
Does woman find herself a pow
srrui factor In tho reconstruction OF
society now going ONT There were
no women at the PcaDe Conference
table. In the social and industrial
reoneanixation OF the world women
arc playing no commanding part In
England they were given the vote
a. . reward for their war work. and
what happened at the nrst election
Every woman running for Parra-
mant was simply snowed under
Even women hero in New York who
holped out the transportation com.
pAnbes during the war are being re-
placed by men now that they are OBJ
tainable-
Men simply do not take woman
seriously IN these new fields sh'
socks 10 enter" summed up Mrs
Tyler. The political and economi'
status she has achieved Is in no wa!
proportionate to tho sacrifices an
efforts she has made with the idea o
ah0wing how nearly she can TAX
name place. As TO distinction
achievement, the most feminist lead
ere OF woman can say for her Is tina
she WILL BE--some time In Tn
vague future-as great a business o
p0aitacal figure as man now is"
SBut doesn't woman's effort 30
TIE things men are doing. even II Sh
hasn't yet achieved supreme success
prove she is n different being froI
the woman OF the pastH" 1 argued.
Again Mrs. Tyler smiled tolerant.
but cynically.
do you know what wuman's eT
trance into business and politi'
really means?" che inquired. e.
means she Is playing the Same ol
game with new weapons. II NEAR
~ II tired OF waiting At homo for
man ana that she has gone out I'M
Ne highways and bywAys TO fir
hina.
1T was the typewriter which fir
intEodueed women into the businol
w., And at the typewT1tsr woma
eN1n tho baEinninG has been prlma
- 4 Oox SUCCESS. I am mot saytE