The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-23
Woman

Washington Post. under date OF Nav
18th. says:
1t > strange that - many neys>p4-
pers should be a. surprised a. ,hev
seem TO be that two women-Mn. and
Miss Willard-have become respect
lively editor and proprietor OF the Chi
Cago Post, when women throughout
the United States are today occupying
the most important positions in Jour
nallsm. In Chicago this is particular
ly the case. There Is Mrs. Margaret
Buchanan sullivan, the leading edito-
nal writer of the Times OF that CITY
the most charming Of journalists. The
lady IS a devout Roman Catholic. i
only twenty-slx year old. Is plump In
hSure. and has a high intellectual
forehead. blue ewes. and a wealth of
golden hair which she allows 10 fall III
wavy masses about her shoulders. Her
husband, A. i. Sullivan, is also a jour
nalist, but perhaps is better known as
the man who shot down Prof. Han
ford for an alleged SANDER of his wife.
tie was tried for murder but was
acquitted, or else the jury disagreed,
forget ~hlch. In Chicago. TOO. there
Is Mrs. Sara A. Hubbard, the literary
n scientific editor of the Tribune, a
distinguished looking lady of almost
thlrty-hve years of age, with a tail,
commanding figure and dark hair and
eyes. She Is perhaps the most schol-
arly woman on the American press,
and is a veritable book-worm. Her
husband Is. a musician of ability. He
has composed a hundred or more
pieces of one kind or another, the best
known of which is the song ..Off the
Blue Canary Isles" On the Chicago
lnter-Ocean there is the best lady in
terviewer in the United States, Miss
Alice Hobbins, of Madison. Wisconsin.
She IS a pretty girl of about twenty
years OF age. III appearance somewhat
resembling Sara Jewett, the actress.
When every male interviewer on the
staff Of the lnter-Ocean has failed to
draw out a victim, Miss Hobbins is
sent into the field, and it is said that
she never fails. She is also correspond
ent of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Among the best known of the lady
journalists of Philadelphia are Mrs.
Briggs, the OLIVIA" of the Press, and
Mrs. Lambert, wife of the managing
editor of the Times. In Washington
you have an array of accomplished
lady correspondents. At the head of
them, | suppose, is Grace Green
wood CMrs. l.. X. Lippincott). of the
New York Times. She is a great
granddaughter of Jonathan Edwards,
and a kinsInan of Aaron Burr, to whom
she is said to bear a strong likeness.
To look at her now, in her matronly
dignity, one would hardly imagine
that, as a girl, she was distinguished
as a romp, whose great delight it was
to catch "a spirited horse. and, putting
him to a full gallop, without saddle or
t,sG In ,,1 M, fct- a. ,,-
riders she had seen. Her breezy and
spirited poem The Horseback Ride"
was composed in the saddle, and is a
fair example of Grace Greenwood's'
style. Then there is Mrs. Mary Glenn
mer, who has written for the newspa-
pers since h was fourteen years old,
and Is certainly one of the best of cor
respondents. She was a great friend
OF the Cary sisters, and her Cary me-
mortal" is a graceful tribute to them.
Her Ten Years III Washington" and
Men, Women and Things" are both
gossipy and entertaining volumes.
OF course every one in Washington
knows of "Miss Grundy," the enter
tanning correspondent of the Post. the
New York Graphic, Detroit Free Press,
II the Cincinnati Enquirer. Her
real name is Austine Snead-Miss
Snead. There is also a Mrs. Snead,
Fay" Of the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal The Sneads, mere ct file, are
pretty young women, seemingly of
about the same age.
In New York there are an amazing
number of brilliant women in jour
nalism. There is not a newspaper
here which has not one or more of
them on its staff. Mrs. j. B. Lyman
edits the .'home department. of the
Tribune. Miss Glider, whose brother
is one of the editors of Scribner's, is
the principal dramatic and art critic
of the Herald. Mrs. Emily Batty is
the fashion editor of the Sun. and
writes also many clever articles fo1
that journal not connected with the
fashions. A recent contribution by
this lady on Lace published in Har-
pers Monthly, attracted much atten-
ton. Miss Middle Morgan, a tall, stall
wart English woman, for many years
has been the cattle and stock reporter
on the Times. She is a splendid horse
woman, and can make a capital after
dinner speech. | heard her once at al
agricultural fair at Waverly, \. j..
when one of her off-handed o~ratorica
efforts was received with unboundeC
enthusiasm. By the way, in speaking
u TIE 1ilDuue, 1 SHOulu HOl HdNs
omitted to mention Miss Nellie Hutch
inson. She used to be a reporter, bu'
now writes many of the book reviews
and, if | am not mistaken, the capita
personal paragraphs on the editorla
page. The screeds of Mrs. Florence |
Duncan are familiar to'all the reader
of the World and the Graphic. Mrs
Mary Kyle Dallas used to get 81, 600
year salary as one of the department
editors of the Ledger, and now writes
| believe, for the Sunday Times, an
several other weekly papers. Mrs
Mary A. Booth is the editor of Har
per's Bazaar. and st. Nicholas, the bes
children's magazine in the world, l
! conducted by Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge