The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29

reaching your town" he continued were typically English; within three hours after my arrival I was miles out of the city in the country; then when I came back to the city l found tea shop and got some good tea. Both typically English, you'll say"
 Thank you for your compliment to my home town-but do let's get back to England for moment and tell me about Lady Astor." l begged.
 q am sorry to say that she Is very unpopular not so much the fact that she is an American. and the first woman to become a member of Parli- ament, but because she hasn't ob- served the time honored tradition Of Parliament and listened; she has spoken too quickly and too often. Mrs. Wintringham--the second wom- an to have a seat in the House or Commons-has acted very different ly; she has been in Parliament Tor nearly five months and has never yet made speech. When she does 1t will be on a subject worth listening to, not international politics or the di- vorce laws-and men will heed what she says
 And speaking of women and their part in the world-your women nov elists-what of them?' l asked.
 "Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Wolff. especially of the younger gen eration, are being influenced am afraid too largely by the writings or Marcel Post-the Frenchman-aho they are paying far more attention to form than to matter. Personally l have since my first novel. which was | nm ] form that of Flaubert, for instance and have put all my work and time on the subject matter. This doesn | occupy the younger English novelists of the day as much as form.
 Commodities or Lr xuries: And being the high priest of fem
 inism par excellence, I suggested with
 a merry twinkle in my eyes. Do you
 regard women as necessary commodi-
 ties or merely luxuries2' recalling l that somewhere in the Bible it -tsl re- corded that "aIl things are created 1 for a purpose
 1 'sWoman plays an important part In the life of man and also in the
 life of an artist. By that 1 mean an
 author or painter. She provides the ! insuiration. She is the. striker on which efesemotion is, struck off. II
 the emotions burn. then success will follow; if not, wall. let us not dts 1 ,cuss that phase oft. because today Is beautiful and. aH subjects should bs ! treated likewise. .
 Tt is true therei have been great I artists who have lived esthetic lives i without the aid of4woman, but they
 eaneff few andsfar between and II rise
 to say their Hives borderedion the un- i natural.'
 At this.point MT. George got upsand l.packed hisbsg pipe with. rich tobacco Ethen returnedst to his chain and con litinued his interesting subject M
 '.As man, treats woman differently
 so do artists Some grasp them as the 1 striker, as have mentioned, and
 others seize them like beetle, pierce
 them with a..pin and place. them in 8 l glass to be studied and written about with the carefulness of an expert i i.compiling figures in. seeking solu-
 tion of mathematical problem. The
 latter way is unnatural but is"some- ! times practiced with fair results.
 '"To an artist. woman is two people l she is a female and then she Is a problem that calls for the most care l ful study.
 When he meets a woman who i'm i terests him. he is often puzzled but l her friendship is most valuable to him ! whether 1t grows into love or hatred
 There are many disputes about l woman, from the view of the layman
 and perhaps equally as many from tly | view of the artist. Some say woman is dangerous and wastes an artists
 time; that she occupies his mental and | physical energies and that she forces him to see her only when he should be seeing the things of life. Then there are other people who declare an artist wants all the experience he can get
 And will the feminist movement votes for women and that sort oi thing, lessen the attraction of wom en, do you think?" I asked.
 T look upon the enfranchisemen' of women as a purely. educational ad- yancement it is not significant of a revolutionary measure. The attain ments of the ballot by American wom- en is not the gaining of much sought end; it is the gaining of a mechanism for other ends. It does not mark their emancipation. Ameri- can women were emanclpated long
 before they had the vote. Their en- franchisement is a recognition of
 their equality with men rather than i an actual gaining of that equality
 And then. as If summing up the
 whole Of life for women their mys- l seriousness, their frailties. their ss s.Women have to consider not SC t..-- l. 4,