The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-16
k Q Q d, Shelter A d M ating, Of Woman
By CAROLINE CRAWFORD N 0CD. shelter and mating.

M OtJAJ, Sne1ter ana matlnS.
 " These are the three most feminine
 urges, according to Maria Thomp. son Daviess's new book, Seven Times Seven, just published by Dodd, Mead & Co, and not one word about dress AS an urge! It takes a woman to por- tray woman's urges every time.
 Miss Daviess has always interested the fiction reading world, but her latest book, an autobiography, fairly pulsates with heart and soul, and when read how she sums it all up toward the end with that last touch of food, shelter and mating I dashed up to the National Arts club to hear more about these { wholly feminine affairs.
 Food plays royal role in a girls life whether she marries or not" smil- ingly. admitted Miss Daviess, ''and therefore is one of her biggest assets to happiness. A bachelor girl who can set good food before her friends can work miracles. l have sat down to a table where seven people weren't speak ing and because the food was delicious 1t reacted on their system like jazz and they forgot all about their petty diff ferences and bickerings.
 And concerning the married woman, '' warned Maria Thompson Daviess, with merry little twinkle in her blue eyes, just let her mnke a Grade A pie for dinner and then see if divorce courts look as interesting as they did when she fed him on pie from the delicates- sen"
 In regard to shelter. Miss Daviess has a word of advice for the single girl who tries to make home of her own.
 1t Is the duty of every woman 10 make a home for herself" admitted Miss Daviess. Every true woman has that home instinct born in her, but making n home for herself does not mean camp ing out in an apartment with two or three other girls, or even one other girl No happiness can be found in a mutual gas stove. mutual icebox and an instalment plan, Persian rug"
 Hut in New York city that is about the only way girl can have a home of her .own," I interrupted. Apart ment rents are only to be met in this way.
 Maria Thompson Daviess, southerner that she is. was not to be outdone, how ever. She met the issue promptly with {: Tt makes no difference if a girl has only one room, she must have it to her self. She can have her gas stove be- hind q screen, her cot behind another and her reception room in the centre. Landlords would soon learn to build one-room affairs if young women in- sisted"
 Miss Daviess then painted the dis tress of two or more girls living in a few rooms. She spoke of the quarrels over callers. over iceboxes, over ward fobes. mixed letters. broken china, and the hundred and one things that are bound to come up.
 Living with another girl is twice as difficult as being married and boss" she laughed. Tt takes, six times as much tact to get on with one girl as it does with husband and six crying children
 And then we came to the subject of mating.
 T don't think 1 can express my views orally and better than did in the book" said Miss Daviess, andethrn- ing toward the last page of the book she read:
 Mating is waiting around some turn of the road for everybody to take or, to leave, but why, drop the load and spill the beans to run ahead and be con tinually looking for it? Such undue anxiety may frighten the lookout away. Mating must be taught to know it's place and keep it. As to the cult of mating, many documents are presented about it in song and story and picture and scientific tone which, it seems to me. it is we'll for the individual to read and see and therefrom draw conclusions and-s1hake decisions as to his or her conduet-and then keeD to the decisions without reeling back into the question continually when time is needed to study seed catalogs and airplane steer ing gears. A place for mating, and mating in its place !'