Show f J tj i I i G IRL f th Cobb Chapm fi ID T D LERS L E R S i I c. c C t i tI t. I p 4 r qi I Mrs 1 Elizabeth N 1 ry 0 U TE T 1 I 1 I fl r I and i Cobb baby Chapman Patricia ia r k ty 4 O F DATE rift y is f d fY I Daughter of IrvinS C Cobb bb A I sr j wi sE C. C H rl Humorist Herself f a Suc Successful ucc s ul r u o ii Novelist lovelist Wife Va e and Mother Says J There h e eIs r Is No Place in in Busy Swirl of o Modern Modern e TSI 0 I Life for Aimless Existence o of f x g grf rf si p j kry e sf t tx F u Feminine Social Butterflies f f 0 t H iti B IF TF I had talents ii it 1 I could make mak my own living or r create something something- why then of course New York would be such wonderful wonderful such an opportunity opportunity but but any talents For once I would like to be essential important Im I'm just greedy for things that I cant can't make for myself That is perhaps what is wrong with the young people So speaks Sara Spain attractive pampered the young protagonist of Falling Seeds who revolts at the thought ought oi ot her own futility And it sums up rather neatly the sentiments of Saras Sara's creator regarding the restless young women women of today Sara and Falling FaIling Steeds seeds are the work of of Elizabeth Cobb Ch Chapman This young writer who has recently had her first novel published is the daughter of Irvin Cobb the humorist humor humor- Several everal years ago go she married Frank Frank M. M C Chapman apman Jr concert singer who is studying for an operatic career l For r the last Jast two years they have lived in Florence Italy With their baby daughter daugh daugh- ter Patricia they arrived in this country recently to visit Mrs Chapmans Chapman's parents ins in's New w York Mrs Chapmans Chapman's first novel which is so definitely tied up with her views and her philosophy is the story of a vivid high high- strung discontented young young modern Ev Eve who threw away Paradise and flirted with a serpent And it t is with modern young Eves that Elizabeth Elisabeth Cobb Chapman is much concer con- con ed Why y no not 1 she asks Why not write about ab bout ut flappers I J am of their genera genera- ti tion n. n I see things through their eyes It would be difficult for me to write in a convincing manner manner about women of another another another an- an other age ages I cannot focus my attention or my understanding in their direction Of CERTAINLY this daughter of a famous famous fa- fa father who is walking in his J literary footsteps is distinctly a Young W- W Waman nan of today She is in her ear early y This is a guess she guess she might even be taken t ii n for a girl in her teens She is diminutive petite elfin dark with l lustrous b black ack hair combed smoothly from her small-featured small face with dark fey eyes eyes es and full ripe lips And she dresses smartly and in the height of fashion P white and white black short chiffon frock picturesque que big black hat trig pumps and incrusted diamond-incrusted bracelets her on lilender i der wrists There is something slightly foreign in her appearance and he must often have been mistaken by lIt Italians lians while she lived in their midst rf forgone t one of their own countrywomen The effortless life is apparently a catastrophic sort of existence to Mrs Chapman It is easily understood Her Hero o is full replete with activity She hasa has hasa a home to man manage ge a husbands husband's pro pro- f fe future in inn which to be interested young m ung baby's welfare to watch and a literary career of her own to follow tit It seems to me that all the young amen en of today are restless and unhappy unhappy unhappy un- un happy striving for something which they cannot not define she said Of course 1 I d dont l t refer to business and professional Women women men They're much too occupied to h have ave time for discontent I refer to the theng young ng unmarried girls who have nothing tido o but spend money and have good times IThe j The The discontent grows from the knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge that there are other young women more more fortunate and happier who are doing f ing things in the world They contrast ih tHeir ir own frivolous unimportant days with the rich tich and glorious hours of accomplishment ac some young young women enjoy young young opera singers who are gaining fame e in al all the capitals of the world gong young actors who are playing important r roles l s in important plays young writers are turning out much-discussed much books o ks young composers poets interior tie Decorators orators and so forth Eventually the tile idle ones come to a realization of their e Ion own futility the unimportance of of their existence The IThe real tragedy lies in in- this not n this not smug contentment with their lot for there are of course certain young women who are perfectly happy doing nothing but spending money flirting having days of revelry But they are in the minority The tragedy lies in inthe inthe inthe the fact that so many young women idlers have a deep yearning for a more useful life without the training or the talent to make their dreams come true 1 often hear a young woman of this class say wistfully I love interior decorating Im I'm going to be an interior decorator But she has o only ly the vision of a charming home for she has always lived in onea one one onea a daughter of the rich Should income it it come actually to designing and creating a beautiful and artistic home for some one else as part of her professional career career she would failAnd failAnd fail And just as as there are girls without girls without talent who dream of becoming interior decorators but who i never fulfill their dreams so th there re are are restless girls who t i i J i x k J zt t r o- o t H. H K d t b ss s. s S Sn Y r V r t rI p 4 f r. r r. r r t. t 4 k i J JS J'S S 'S v H 1 i rr Y n l 1 I H al u ri r 7 r VF n r Y f. f fi JC rf r 4 1 rr rl f. f V a x vr AY S i iY d 5 I y X A j r n i J 5 r Y j. j y or e d r rv v i k Y j y s. s b. b H Hf t bi i f s nr r r rH H rr 4 y f rt l i y 1 ry n oj 4 v r s r t Irvin IrvinS S Cobb humorist whose daughter bids fair to rival hi him in literary fame 1 long ong to be writers writer singers pianists This is an age in in- which meteoric careers are made Y Young ung people of today become become be be- e- e come famous overnight These restless discontented idle girls hear the glamorous glamorous glam orous story of for instance an obscure young woman who suddenly becomes an operatic star Instantly they visualize themselves in that tha same glamorous position position po po- with Kings at their feet adulation adulation adulation adula adula- tion and applause their heir daily diet But what they do not not- stop to realize is ig that t that young opera star was born with a agic voice a golden gift at birth or orth th that t she slaved and studied d and toiled I I put in n years of vocal training t to reach read h the height on which she he queens it now r e restless ones lose out for fer one or o oboth r both reasons They either haven't t th the e eo natural endowment of the gins gin wh who o bec becomes mes an an opera opera star overnight lik lika Uke e a figure in a romantic novel or they the themay y ey may have the gift but are unwilling t to o i work hard to develop it They are no not t trained for accomplishment Their trag trap tragedy tragedy edy is that they have never been trained traine d I for a career in an age where fame an and d' d I success for the young seem to be within n i every hands hand's s grasp They live in a aage an anage n i age o of marvelous accomplishment ment glow glow- r I rt r I ing publicity fla flaming ing for progress the young v The success success doctrine is pre preached ched so incessantly and so careless carelessly y You cando cando can cap do the same if you try is constantly being sung like a battle Dram Dramatic tic advertisements set forth th the easy road to fam fame taken by so and so and conclude conclude conclude con con- clude with the reiterated oft-reiterated and italicized italicized statement You Yeu ou can do the same if you try But the restless discontented young women want all the fame none none of the hard work York necessary to achieve it NO TO WONDER Mrs Chapman stresses the business of hard work on the road to fame She has constantly before before before be be- fore her two examples of it her er husbands husband's husbands husband's husbands husband's hus hus- bands band's continual practice in his years year's of vocal training her own hours at her typewriter when th the baby is asleep orin orin or orin in charge of its nurse nurse And she has also memories of her years of of or apprenticeship apprenticeship apprentice apprentice- ship in the field of writing when shedid shedid she shedid did newspaper newspaper work and was an interviewer interviewer interviewer inter inter- viewer and reader on the Bookman Of this period before she had turned out a book of her own and when she was still reading and passing on the x manuscripts of ot others others- ers she said Some of the thee stories stores were terrible Young writers misgivings and suspicions ns about fair play on the part of editors who are always positive that their own stories are ale returned unread would see things more c clearly early if they could know the inside workings of a magazine Editors as a rule bend every very Effort to unearth talent They see precious precious' little of it drifting i into to their r offices so offices so little indeed that they grasp gras p ea eagerly erlY at straws I f for r instance read so many inferior badly written stories that wh when n I 1 came cam e across one ona that had only a faint spar spark k of merit 1 would pounce on it and i in n my delight at discovering it give it to too no o high a a recommendation for its actual 1 worth Dont Don't grow so enthusiastic over such thin stuff the editor used to warn me adding I I 1 realize your your temptation After r reading so much terrible stuff 1 I understand under under- stand your reaction to something that's that s just a little I less ss terrible Much of th the e material 1 I read was the work of young youn g writers who went in for realism with ga a bang It was pr pretty tty awful Th Then n back went the conversation t to o the modern young wo woman an The po poor r dears dont don't know what todo to todo todo do with their time said Mrs Chap Chap- man an They depend a d a l lot t on men to help them while away the weary hours Beaux Or husbands But even their must fail them sometimes for even evenS the wealthiest of them have their work their outs outside de interests They're away vay away during much of the da day And oh those hours can be mighty long Then comes rebellion wit with nothing to back it up I I 1 wont won't go on spending my days in idleness cries out one of these young women women Ill Til start tomorrow and write for the he magazines That will vilf br bring ng me f fame me and a fortune in short time Just like t that tf Ill Til start being a wr writer ter tomorrow I A Thoughtless arrogant overconfident and no po talent to sustain her no understanding under under- standing of what literary work worl is really like Of course the bitter awakening comes unless the girl actually has a dormant talent which she las as never before before be be- fo fore e tried to exer exercise ise But good writers like good opera singers are rare To Tobe Tobe Tobe be either requires requires' a natural endowment genius a cultivated talent or the capacity capacity capacity capac capac- ity for hard hard work worb And it is needless to say that the greater part of this big rebellious army of idling young women of today have hav neither They have visions of breaking into print of figuring on th front pages of newspapers of ot fame of fortune As Asfor Asfor Asfor for th the fortune even if they did make it they doubtless wouldn't know what to do with it European soldiers of fortune have a greater respect for money than they have They marry it to carry carryon carry carryon on a family tradition Their illustrious families in the past have I lived ved luxuriously luxuriously and now they will wil not disgrace their ancestors by doing menial work It is much easier to to marry mahy marry money and thus preserve preserve the family's honor i B BUT UT I Im I'm- not nat only sorry for the butterflies who are tired of flitting about aimlessly from tea to theatre to dance while talented and feted young women are living full and satisfying lives Im I'm m sorry too for the dusty women women those those women of mediocre talent who have spent their years pursuing the phantom of fame the faint vision that was bound to elude them because they didn't have the necessary talent to capture it These are young old-young women women of another In 1 11 who are stowed away at dusty desks puttering about ineffectually at uninteresting uninteresting uninteresting esting and unimportant work Their lives too are tragic The answer er to the problem Fr Frankly I 1 dont don't know exactly But it seems to tome tome tome me that restless unhappy women rebelling rebelling rebelling rebel rebel- ling like Sara did at her lifes life's futility searching for an anodyne must either become resigned to their fates realizing once and for all that they are d destined for unimportance or else th they y should develop whatever talent th they y actually possess I like so many other girls of today had had every whim gratified by indulgent indulgent indulgent gent parents parent My father wasn't keen e n about me going to work before my mar mar- I 1 had everything I wanted He He- couldn't understand why I should ch choose se set t On n n h V bV vw 00 vu quite possible he had before him visions of other wor working ing w women men tired discouraged discouraged dis- dis discouraged putting 10 in long hours at un- un remunerative tasks He wanted me to go out and nd dance and be gay h ve a a good time I 1 know that Daddys Daddy's se cret idea of the perfect young woman woman- is haired curly a helpless little girl girt in ini i white organdie wearing ng a pink sash The The- super feminine Of course he wouldn't admit that but I am positive that's his romantic idea of the ideal girl IT JT TT IS always ta taken en for gra granted ted th that t S' S the child of a writer should follow r rin in its parents parent's footsteps And this this' fie happens A child is imitative Dad writes So she tries her hand atit atit at atit it But my father didn't encourage this tendency in me He didn't want to thrust me into a prof profession for which I might not have have- an aptitude So he just became an innocent by bystander tander He lie was of the opinion that if I 1 had the true creative instinct I would come into my own without any prodding Some people think it odd that that I I l' should write in in serious vein when my fathers father's writings are quite the opposite But though We Ve are in sympathy in many things we do not have the same turn of mind Daddy is droll He sees humor in so many things I do not Im going to take a little time to play now Ive I've just finished another book called Marvels I think i 1 ra rate te tea a little rest And its it's so thrilling to tobe tobe tobe be back in America and New Nework York ork after two years in Italy Italy is picturesque and romantic but so quiet Life Lire isso Isso Is la laso so uneventful there Tranquillity in which to work that's true but so much mucha a place of ot tn trl Trading on a dead past One meets there so many people whose days are dones done who have haye made their money and ha have hate e retired I. I to to Italy to rest rest to to take things easy They ask sk only for serenity It isn't exactly a stimulating atmosphere but I felt the glorious change the minute I landed over here There was a t tang ng in in- inthe the theair air A vital vital vital- undercurrent It simply made me tingle all over |