Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-09-10
SOMETHING NEw-A FEMALE NEWS
PAPER,

Pans Is always-as Pliny said of Africa of
old-giying birth to some extraordinary novel;
~; and one OF the most extraordinary we have
ever met with is given in a late number of the
Courier des Etats Unis, in which we are in
formed that young lady has chosen a most
singular occupation. She has turned newspa-
per-sOmething, as the Courier remarks, after
the fashion in which BARRIERS were the newspa.
pers of the Middle Ages. Figaro, as he de-
scribes himself is a general retailer Of informa-
tiOn, one setting forth all the news of the day-
dealing In 'matrimOnials useful to all class
es Somsthin OF this order is the Female News
paper in question.
Every afternoon (continses our authority a
young woman of "a years, tall, and of exquisite
ngure, attractive even at a distance slightly
pited with small pOx, yet with eyes and mouth
which have not lost whit of expresson-such q
young lady may be found every afternoon, gil
ding from Gale to cafe in that peculiar part of
Paris principally inhabited by students and
those connected with them-knOwn as the Latin
Quarter Everybody knows the girl and every
body speaks to her. She is brilliant in conyer.
satlOn--in repartee-in salutations She enters
a cafe, passes from one table to another, and
without ceremony begins at once to give the
news OF the day. She has all the gossip of the
schools Of law and medicine the scandals or
small talk relative to tho students and their
Hames'-the marriages and divorces And,
Wnlie communicating all this in most amusing
open-she picks up news from the guests, and
thus renews her stock in trade of gossip. +
But how does she make it prohtablel This
Is the most singular part Of her most singular
business Everybody who has been in France
knows the five Jumps of sugar which are brought
with every cup OF cofee-three for the cup, and
two extra ones, which are either put into the
glass of water or carried away by Frenchmen,
In the pocket. On concluding her gossip, the
fair female journal takes these two Jumps; they
are her perquisites. Jeanne (Or Jenny il the
name of the living journal; the students call
her Jeanne aux Canards.
We are sorry to say that Jenny ITumbug is
the nearest translation we can give of the name,
though il must be admitted that, as Dolly Fudge
says OF French abuse. in MOore's poem, it is not
so bad in the original. However this NAV be-
whenever Jenny Humbug enters cafe there is
general demand for her. Everybody wants
Jenny; she Is pulled from table to table, there
Is general uproar at her extraordinary . local
items, editorials, and telegraphs, - to say
nothing of the ''advers -
Jenny never leaves a cafe after a short visit
without bearing with her one or two pounds Of
sugar, collected lump by lump. Jenny lives by
sugar. Tho CLfs de FOdeH buys il all of her,
and she is growing rich. Of course there is
story connected with her Jenny Lind. with
all her talent, had to have a story they all
have rigmsrole yarn nowadays, and of course
Jenny Humbug, with such name must have
one. She is a virtuOus and spotless scion of
something or other, and is collecting a dowry
wherewith to marry o lover to whom She is pas
siOnately attached, young salesman in Paris
and who is to wed her when she shall have col
lected five thousand pounds-not sterling-but
Of sugar.
1t Is fortunate for the editorial craft that such
newspapers are not started on grand scale in
this country. We should soon have to shut
up shop if they were. The press, as the Bun
kumvile Flag staff once remarked, ais mighty
lndlan-it cOrrects vice, yindicates the COnsti-
tuition, and inserts advertsements''-but it
could never resist such opposition as that of
pretty women turning themselves into prone
nading newspapers, hinging forth paragraphs
from rosy lips, dating editorials from sparkling
eyes, and doing up notices in a style of ami
able cOquettish preference. Long may it be
before paper thus comes into opposing interests
with the muslin We have always warmly
advocated extending the sphere Of women's ac-
tiOn, but we said beforehand we didn't
mean tO-there are certain fields not as yet ap-
prOpriate to her, and that of journalism in per-
son and b. word Of mouth, is one OF them. La
dies, if you have any gratitude let il alone -
PhILadeiDhia BHiistiH.