Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-12
AWOMAN'S TALK.
A Livety Female Discu:1ses Her O.rn Sex
LIST. Louis Evening POST

Lst. Louis Evening POST
Mrs. Charlotte Smith has some necn,ia~
views about Women and especially about
women in lonrnalism> To an Ecessug Post
reporter who met her this morning at
B'-num's holel, she said:
s'The fact is the general public which,
takes little troxble to investigate such things
practically, knows nothing about the diff
cultles that women have to encounter in
branching cut into any profession on their
own account. Especially is this the case as
stacles axe raised up by women themselves.
lnjure the cause very much in this direction.
Those that affect literature in dsleta,1tl
manzaer, who write insipid poems and at the
sanse time want to be fine ladies'. Woman
caEnot meet success in this way. She must
&c to work Systematically. Many of these
women are
LOCKING FOR HUSBANDS,
seek society and devote attention to enter
tanning gentlemen. In the profession of
journalism this does not do. It is not matri-
mony. Women go into the matrimonial
business islst as man does into business
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whole aim. Divorces, too, are a great curse
of the present day. Why, I met young
girl only seventeen years of age. who had
been twice married and twice divorced. She
is now contemplating match No. 3. Women
of the present day think no more of mar
rage than they do of jumping over a broom
stick.
''Ihere is field for women in journalism
just as well as for men, only they must go
to work in the same thorough manner as
mon. They must be trained by a couple of
years of preparatory work continual and per-
sistent for it. journalism, too, is very diff
ferent frora magazine writing, and requires
a peculiar training and peculiar gifts,
ANOTHER DRAWBACK
/ to women is that too nlany Of them become
| identified with the issns and are carried
away by theories. They are also not ayerse,
unfortunately, to placing themselves under
| pecuniary obligations. Women must be
more practical and must be careful of plac-
ing themselves under obligations toany one.
That women area success in the journalistic
! field has already been dem onstrated. There
| are Mrs. Margaret Sullivan, who is one of
| the best editorial Writers on the Chicago
! Times, Mrs. Kerr, who is the fashion and
literary edatde of the same paper, and Mrs.
Detric news editor of the Chicago Post.
These are sufficient proof of the ,adaptability
! of women for this profession. Miss Alice
Hobbins, Hho is a reporter on the Chicago
| Inter- Ocea13, is another lady who has com
manded Success in the Journalistic field. She
was young girl, and came from Madison,
her father being well-to-do physician of
that city, She is.net more THAI, twenty OF
twenty-five years of age, and only looks
eighteen. She lis rather prepossessing,
atfable and amiable She can write up any
thing from chicken fight to a bank failure.
She visits the stock yards and ether places,
and goes wherever her duty calls her at all
hours, dag or night
THERE IS NO DOUBT
that Een will always treat ladies' with cour-
tesy. | know ltfron my own experience
from associations with all classes in all the
large cities. In railroad trains, in public
hotels, in theaters and places of amusement
ladies never need fear of being insulted.
Man is very much abused in this particular
respect.
''The great bugbea- of the women of to-
day is propriety. There first question al
ways is: rs it proper to do thus or SOP, II
is proper to do anything she is competent to
do to fit herself for a position. I have a
great deal more fear Of a woman who pays
greatdeal of attention to toilet end is al
ways accompanied by a gentleman: there is
more 'dangersfor hersfrom the standpoint OF
woman,s fall. The fact is we have too many
ladies'. The system OF. education as regards
woman is false. Mothers educate theil
daughters to,look around for rich husband
They don tsueceed in capturing u Croesus
and marry some clerk. They find they can.
not live when family cares come upon them
as they used to do. She is discontinued
quarreis begin and the hist scene OF this acl
is divorce. Then the lady begins to look
around for husband No. e or 8. The girls
waste hours in
DRrMM1NG AWAY oN:A RENTED PLANO,
and grow up without havislg any means Of
self-support shonld they ever be compelled
to gain their own livelihood. Household and
domestic duties is another thing they should
learn to perform. A wealthy lady Of Racine
Wis, has very pretty and fascinating
daughter of sixteen who is going to school
Every morning the girl gets up and Tides
her own and her mdther's room, sets the table
and assists in washing the dishes before 60
ing to school. Thai is as it should be.
SIS TO WOMEN SUFFRAGE,
first, they should take practical standpoint
and must prove that they are really compe-
tent
Miss Anne Dickinson's name came up dur.
ing the conversation and Mrs. Charlotte
Smith said that she nearly came preventing
her from going on the stage. ''About siz
months before Anne appeared in tie drama
she asked me nay advice. 4 discountenanced
1t and said that it was foolish. She was the
Queen of the Restrum. We talked ever the
matter and she half agreed to go into bust
ness with me. Ny idea was to form q
woman's printing and engraving company
Well, we parted with the understanding that
we we're to meet in Chicago in four weeks.
I, however, was taken seriously i'll and could
not keep the engagement. Miss Dickinson
was indignant at ny Disappointing her.
Perhaps had kept the appointment it would
have turned her career. She stated to me
that the lecture field was not paying as well
as she thought it should. think she did
wrong to leave the platform. She was toe
far advanced in age and had none of the
/ AIDS OF BEAUTY,
which are such great helps on the stage,
that Miss Mary Anderson for instance has. s
The reporter instanced Charlotte Cush-
man and Janauscheck as examples of his
trionic triumph without the aid of adyentiti-
GUS charms.
sob! yes; but then there is only one Char