The Washington times., 1922-07-21
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Be FOUND
At HEARTH
Blanche Upright, Who Wrote
The Valley Of Content"
Analyses Troubles.
BY WINIFRED VAN, DUZER,
.--.... Universal servIce

BY WINIFRED VAN DUZER.
, Universal Service.
NEW YORK, July 21.-A rest
less, dissatisfied woman, spending
ner days in chasing rainbows
toward far horizons of something
eise--always something else.
This is the American woman
ss she exists in the eyes of
blanche Upright, auizically smil-
ing, thoughtful hammered, low
voiced author of "The Valley of
Content, Is Answer.
And while she is roaming hither
and yonder, searching. yearning to-
ward the seven mystic shades, the
POT OF gold lies at the very edge OF
her own heartstone!
. II is labelled, Content"
From this priceless treasure, so
free and so ignored by the women
we are, sprang the name for Mrs.
Upwright's famous novel. now in
It's fifth printing and in process of
being dramatized for Marjorie Ram
beau, the writer's lifelong friend.
Mrs. Upwright told of the various
own span-a brief one IL appearance
Is truh-so that she might faithful.
~ depict the characters in her story.
She has been clerk in a department
store, settlement nurse, factory
worker and newspaper reporter.
And these experiences all have
strengthened her idea that home,
where each woman's golden pot
waits, is best, She explained:
Women have progressed out Of
the home into office and industry.
But the cycle is wide: development
will go on till women progress
again, back to the home this time.
For the home is achievement for
us. It is steadfast as the race: the
only really changeless thing in a
world Of change.
"Of course 1t is a good thing for
women to have the franchise. Won
en- should be permitted to help make
the laws that govern them.
but ] do not believe that women
should take time and energy FROM
their real mission to hold office. 1t
means more restlessness, more dis
satisfaction; a more definite ignor-
humbly standing about, usually In
the kitchen.
"For the kitchen is the center Of
home life, in a way. isn't 1t? Out
OF II comes-or should come
sustenance Of life; food. some times
warmth and life. Every woman,
I believe, may find contentment
there II she searches for II"
1t lis this dissatisfaction with
life, really an overlooking Of hap
piness, that is causing most OF our
national marital infeliclty.
The woman who flies into hys-
teria because the cook quite end
calls her husband home from the
office to tell him about 1t. NAV be
petted into rational frame OF
mind by that long-suffering Crea.
ture. But it is quite likely he will
balance his distaste for the whole
proceeding by hunting up a more
agreeable sort of woman for his
leisure hours; one whose compan-
ehip will not be filled with irrita-
tion. Feminine discomfort Is drfv-
ing perfectly good husbands into
association with the little ln1ies or
the front row, Mrs. Upwright says,
while the gold in their pots grows
tnrnished.
Archbishop's Letter.
Perhaps the philosophy OF this
San Francisco society woman. who
turned working girl in interest Of
Der art is best summed up In
naragrap ph written in a lettor by
Archbishop Alexander. Of the Rus
,kian st. Nicholas Cathedral, this
city, to Bishop Patrick ]. Grattan
Mythen.
I He said In part:
''The madness of that passion for
success which has ruined our civil
ization is made clear, and the eter-
nal reality of the one thing neces-
sary is made apparent-to be con-
tent with the happiness which is:
"As in the case of this woman,
Marjorie, so with us all-prelates.
princes. rulers and nations-the
Happiness which Is theirs Is de-
snised for the happiness that seems
no lie beyond the horizon; the lily
must be gilded, the rose painted,
the perfume of the wild flower gar
nished with the altar Of subtle con-
coction from the shops Of the ven