Smyrna times., 1857-09-02
A Female Newspaper.

Paris is always--as Pliny said of Africa of
old-giving birth to some extraordinary novel
ty, and one of the most extraordinary we have
ever met with is given in late number of the
Courier deS Etats UAiS, in which we are in
formed that a young lady has chosen most
singular occupation. She has turned newspaper
something, as the Courier remarks, after the
fashion in which barbers were the newspapers
of the Middle Ages. Figaro, as he describes
himself is a general retailer of information,
one setting forth all the day-dealing in " ma
trmonias" useful to all classes Something
of this order is the Female Newspaper in ques-
ton.
Every afternoon, continues our authority,
young woman of twenty-four years, tall, and of
exquisite figure, attractive even at distance,
slightly pitted with smallpox, yet with eyes
aud mouth which have not lost one whit of ex-
pression-such young lady may be found
every afternoon gliding along from cafe to ccfe,
in that peculiar part of Paris principally inhaO-
tied by students and those connected with them
known as the Latin Quarter. Everybody
knows the girl, and everybody speaks to her
She is brilliant in conversation, in repartee, in
speeches, in salutations. She enters Il cafe,
passes from one table to another, und without
ceremony begins at once to give the news Of
the day. She has all the gossip of The schools
of law and medicine, and scandals or small talk
relative to the students and ther iiames y
the marriages and divorces. And while COM
municating all this in a most amusing end tus-
cInating manner, her eyes and ears are open
she picks up news from the guests, and thus
renews her stock in trade OF gossip.
But how does she make it prolitub!c This
is the most singular part Of her singular bust
ness. Everybody who has been i'll France
knows the five Jumps OF sugar which are brought
with every cup Of cofice-thrce for the cup
aud two extra ones, which are either put into
the glass OF water or carried away BY French
men in the pocket. On concluding her g-ssp
the fair female journal takes these two Jumps;
they are her perqulste. Jeanne, or Jenny, is
il the name of the living Journal; tie students
call her Jeanne Quc CanaTdS. VI c aTe sorry
to say that Jonny Humbug is the nearest trans
iation We cGn give Of the name, though It must
be admitted that, as Dolly Fudge says of French
abuse, in Muore's poem, it is not 30 bad in the
original. However this may be, whenever
Jenny Humbug enters a cafe there is general
demand for her. Everybody wants Jenny; she
IS pulled from table to table there is gene
raj uproor at her extraordinary local items"
Il ~, he
of the "advers." J my 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. The CGfe de I CGcOn
buys it all Of her, and she is growing rich. Of
course there is a story connected with her
Jenny Lind, with all her talent had to have
story; they all have a rigmarole yarn now-a-
days, aud OF course Jenny Humbug, with such
u name, must have one. She is a vrtuous and
spotlcss scion of something or other, and is COL
ecting dowry wherewith to marry lover t0
whom she is passionatciy attached, a young
salesman in Paris, and who is to wed her when
she shall have collected five thousand pounds
not sterllng-but OF sugar.
1t is fortunate for the editorial craft that such
newspapers are not started Oh a grand scale in
this country. We should soon have to shut up
shop if they were. The press, as the Bunkum-
Vile Flag Staff once remarked, "is mighty
indian-it corrects vice, vindicates the consti-
tuition and inserts advertisements but it
could never resist such opposition as that of
pretty woman turning themselves into prone
nadipg newspapers, Aiugiug forth paragraphs
from rosy lips, darting editorials from sparkling
eyes, and doing up notices" in style of amiu-
BILE coquettish preference. Long may it be be-
fore paper thus comes into opposing interests
with the muslin We have always warmly
advocated extending the sphere Of woman's &C.
ton, hut as we said beforehand if we didn't we
meant to--there are certain fields not as yet
appropriate to her, and that of journalism in
person and by word of mouth, is one of them.
Ladies, if you have any gratitude, let it alone |!
-PhiLd. Bulletin.