Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1902 — MEN PROFIT, WOMEN SUFFER. [ARTICLE]

MEN PROFIT, WOMEN SUFFER.

How Frank Stockton Got Prize and His Sister Did Not When years ago a juvenile magazine offered two prizes for the best stories written by a child under 12 and by one between the ages of 12 and 15, Frank R. Stockton competed for the latter prize and his sister Louise for the former and both children succeeded in writing the best stories in both groups. But the editor of the magazine did not much like the idea of giving his two prizes to the members of one family. He was afraid it would be said that the winners were relatives or intimate friends of him. So he wrote to Louise and told her that hers was the best story in the under 12 years’ group, but, nevertheless, he would not give a prize to her, because if he did it would make talk and he would be accused of partiality. Frank got his prize, but someone else got the little girl’s. Miss Louise Stockton, who lives in West Philadelphia, often tells this story, which taught her, she says, her first lesson in the world’s Injustice, and which showed her how out of this Injustice men profit and women suffer.