New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Has an Office

creased to the proportions Of real
business, that she have an Office. He
said that no physician or lawyer
would think Of combining his Office
and his home. So Mrs. Rinehart
formed the habit Of hiring an office
without telephone, where she could
work for a certain number Of hours
every day without distraction. Then
her home became place of relaxa-
tion to her, just as it should be to
a busy man.
Mary Roberts Rinehart believes
that the only things her keeping up
a home life and career at the same
time has cost her are bridge parties
and embroidery. She says that per
haps she has not played as much es
other women do.
Another woman author whose mar
ried life has been a real part in her
career is Kathleen Norris. Mrs.
Norris says:
"When was a little girl always
wanted to write stories, and some
how / felt that if / ever could get
to New York / could write them"
She was a newspaper woman III
San Francisco for several years, but
sold no fiction until after her mar
riage, although she wrote some.
"I loved newspaper work. she
said, "and l thought I was going to
be happy at it all my days. Then
Mr.. Norris came along and per
suaded me to give it up"
After her marriage to Charles G.
Norris, younger brother of the late
Frank Norris, the author Of "The
Pit" he brought her to New York
and here her story-writing career
began.
at is to my husband that I ows
my success" said Mrs. Norris
after I had come back East with
him he chanced upon some Of my
old manuscripts, and without telling
me anything about 1t began sending
them around. The first went to
about twenty places, think, and
was finally accepted and published
in The Atlantic Monthly Then
recognition and success followed
with magical rapidity."
Marry, Says Mrs. Bacon
Josephine Daskam Bacon believes
that the woman who would get the
most out Of life ought by all means
to marry. If a young woman wants
a career her married life, according
to Mrs. Bacon, should be an asset. II
should give her greater perspective
and breadth Of vision and should
furnish the background for making
her more of an all-round person.
"The men Of the future are going
to have a fairer deal in marriage
than they have ever had BEFORE"
said Mrs. Bacon. "They will know
that the women who marry them do
so just because they want to, be-
cause they love them. Woman's in
dependence makes it possible to have
a fair test Of marriage. Heretofore
there has been no possible way for
men or any one to know how many
marriages were made for love and
how many because it was the thing
to do or because the girl needed a
meal ticket"
Mrs. Bacon believes that the girls
Of the future will all want to have
something to do, that such move
ments as the Girl Scouts will make
them unafraid of the duties of home.
when women first entered the
business and professional world they
looked around at the women in the
homes, women who really had too
much to do, and they believed that
they could not manage homes and do
their work besides. The girls of to-
day are learning that the care Of
children, If 1t is properly mastered
and managed. is nothing to frighten
them away from home. They can
have their homes and their careers
as well, they have learned"
The husband Of the successful
woman always has been an impor-
tant factor in making her career.
Mrs. Bacon believes that the hus-
bands of the future will be more i'm
portant factors to their wives sue
cess than ever before, and that the
women of the future will really
pick their husbands