Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-12-17

ISSnH EaRS. H. II. BLAHh, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
The Fourth Profession.
n am an enthusiast on the subject of
women wv in journalism. believing that
Eiass IEas yet they have only looked over into
Ithe Beulah land which shall some time
Icome more fully into their possession.
& Why, in the September number Of
ss|lDlemorest's Monthly Magazine, Mrs.
sEroly (Jennie June) gives her expert
senee OF thirty years ago, and says: had
Itried for position on some of the
New York dailies. but was everywhere
laughed at for my answer. There was
no place for women: | was assured.
l"Thsy might do occasional outside
work., Dut they could not be reporters,
because they could net 60 where news
had to be collected, and they could net
be ed itors because they knew nothing
of politics" -
Contrast that with the present day,
and note, the victories achieved by Mrs
Fran k Leslie, Gertrude Garrison of the
American Press Association; Kate Up
son Clark, of Good Cheer Ga Michigan
girl, by tie way; Helen Mackay Hutch
inson, At one time live stock reporter
on the New York Tribune; and Marion
V. Dudley, of the Milwaukee Sentinel;
besides scores of others influential in
makiEg the journals Of the day what
they are; to say nothing of Mary Glenn
mer, one of the most gifted newspaper
writers Of either sex that this century
has produced.
There are also possibilities for those
OF lesser genius. Not a country news
paper, however small, but presents op-
portunities for bright. industri-
Gus woman to improve, to the advan-
tageof herself and the public. Editors
and publishers are beginning to see this
with their own eyes, without having it
forced upon their attention; and the ac-
QUESTION Of woman "a their forces is be-
coming more frequent the demand for
such aid increasing
That much abused faculty of "nosing"
so often attributed exclusively to the
female sex, is found to he Especial adj
vantage if allied to aproper Judgement:
the true womanly instinct, which re-
jects the vulgar and gives only as much
as necessary of unpleasant particulars
is equally important in, cleansing the
daily paper Of so much that might bet
ter be dispensed with. There is room
for great improvement in this respect
and it is safe to say that when women
are more extensively employed as re-
porters, there will be wonderful cellar.
in up time
4 The press not only needs women, but
they are peculiarly fitted for many of
its duties. They fill positions, not on
ly as department editors and compost
tors, but in more truly literary work
quite acceptably. There is no reason
why the Fourth profession" does not
belong as much to them as to men.
| But right here want to say that any
women who is ambitious to enter jour
nalism must lay aside those trivialities
and petty jealonsies SO detrimental to
the accomplishment Of broad and COM
prehensive work. She must learn bus
mess methods, and often be contented
to bury her own individuality. In
what better words can describe her
aims than in those OF Mary Clemmer:
To serve thy generation, this thy fate;
Written in water, swiftly fades thy name:
Eut lie who loves his kind does, first and late
\ work too great for fame.
Hattie G. Sleeper in Womans Tribune
The city council of St, Paul has legal
lied the business of seven hundred sa-
looms in that city. The Pioneer Press
criticizes the council, and also defines
its position on the saloon question in
the following words.
The city council last night laughed
i'll its sleeve as it adopted an amend.
ment to the celebrated saloon ordi.
nence of last year. raising the limit tc
700. 1t was necessary to antedate the
amendment so as to legalize the saloons
which have been running without Ii
cense since last spring. The hopeless
absurdity Of this method of limitation
is distinctly revealed by last nights ac
ton. The way to restrict and regulate
the saloons is by a policy of high II;
cense, boldly adopted and rigidly en-:
forced. g q
a,itsa7
An influential organization OF B19Qk
lyn ladies' has just applied to the may
or of that city for permissiensto eree1
booths, from which it's their = PURPOSE
during the winterstnonthsFt0 sell coffee
andbread at :sshef stshds ifrolh6 to s A. NJ NJ
soap and brad from # 4 ., #, t6 i, Il al
+ ~ Il n.,t ~, anl and milk from Is to p. Al