The Newtown bee., 1880-02-18
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Jennie June.

A New York correspondent of the Bos- ton, Herald gives an interesting account of Mrs. D. G. Croly, better known, per haps, as Jennie June" the well-known newspaper correspondent and fashion writer, and leader of Sorosis. Mrs. Croly is one of the pioneers of women journalists, if not the very first in the held of newspaper work:
 She tells what sounds strangely, now that the great body of women readers of the daily papers are receiving not a little consideration at the hands of edi- tors, except, of course, at the regular times of political absorption. It was twenty years ago that she asked the edi- tor of daily paper to be given a place on his regular staff, and had the req uest declined on the ground of Impractical bility. She then wrote an article on a topic of special interest to women and took it to the editor ofa weekly journal, asking that she might be given charge of regular department for similar matter. In this instance she gained her point and was paid for her contribu- tions, unCer the head of "Gossip with and for ladies'" $3 week. She soon had an offer from another paper to fur nish similar articles for $5a week. This was the introduction of feminine fea- lures into the papers which, within two years, were to he found in the dailies, as well as the weeklies. Mrs. Croly at trihntes to the fact that she was always restricted by editors, in her earliest days of writing, to the topics of dress and fashion, the bias that has made her fashion writer, or rather has given her reputation as such. She has written on far wider range of subjects imper- sonally, treating social, political, relig- ious, artistic and dramatic subjects with so much success that her husband is quoted as saying frankly to another journalist that he never had an abler assistant in his newspaper labors of quarter of a century than his wife. To her belongs the credit of having origi- mated the system of duplicate corre- spondence, written with the stylus upon thin paper, so that several impressions were made by one writing. In this way her letters appeared simultaneously in papers in different sections of the coun- try. In this way, too, the nom de plume of "Jcnnie June'-adopted at time when tEOse of "Grace Greenwood" and Fanny Fern" proved the feminincin clination toward euphonistic allitera- tives, suggestive of the fresh attributes of nature-became known all over the country. She is now the regular corre- spondent of twenty-seven papers, many of them of the character of the Cincin- nati Commercial, Baltimore Americd9 and Louisville Journal. For this latter paper she has written for twenty-three successive years. Mrs. Croly acknowl- edges that women have thus far won their chief successes in journalism as correspondents, and agrees that their vivrcious style peculiarly fits them for this field, but she maintains that this evi- dent fitness is rather due to the fact that they have been chiefly employed in this department. In Mir Wingate's book, Views and Interviews on Journalism" Mrs. Croly says that there are sixty pa- pers in the United States edited by women, who, as editors, editorial writers and the like, are fully as successful as the average of men.