The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-02
WOMEN ON THE PRESS.
SOMETHING ABOUT THOSE IN Bos.
TON.
Sketches OF the Bright Women Who
Help Make the Daily Newspapers of
the City-Acquitting Themselves Well
in Many Departments.

From the Boston Record.
There is in Boston constantly increas.
ing circle of young women who have
adopted journalism as means of liveli.
hood, or because their prediction fol
newspaper work has proved too strong to
be overcome by the generally accepted
ideas regarding the sphere OF women.
Some OF these young women are very valu-
able to the papers employing them, while
some Of them only do such work rs their
tastes incline them TO. There are few
who have taken courses OF training under
the best auspices, and have insisted upon
standing upon the same plane with the
men. II is needless to say that they are
more valuable, practically, than those who
insist upon being specialists, and who
pride themselves upon being women
journalists. Those who simply aspire to
be journalists, and who are willing to take
their chances with the men, relying simply
upon the quality of their work, are by far
the most needful to the Boston press and
do the most TO make its general tone what
it's.
For obvious reasons, the name OF Sallic
Joy White is first suggested, when con
sidering the newspaper women OF Boston.
She was the pioneer on tho Boston press,
and is now president of the New England
Women's Press association. Mrs White
was born in Winchester, n. H., but her
girlhood was passed in Battleboro, Vt.
Coming TO Boston she sought a position ON
the Boston Post, Of which Col. Nathaniel
Greene was then editor Her first work
was an assignment to report a series OF
women suffrage conventions, held through
out the State OF Vermont, and her next
was the reporting OF the brilliant wedding
OF Gen. Buffers daughter with Senator
Ames, OF Mississippi; heraccount fthe we'd
ding, as il appeared in the columns Of the
Poa, was extensively copied by leading
newspapers. After her marriage with Mr..
ii. X. White, Mrs. White gave up her
position on the Poa, only TO We offered a
place on the staff OF the Daily Advertiser,
which she accepted, fulfilling her duties
there and contributing poems, letters and
short articles TO the New York Herald, the
louihs Companion, ScriJnT's Magazine
and other papers and periodicals. Mrs.
White remained with the Advertiser until
she took her present position on the
Hrcaid She has charming country
home in Dedham, but spends her winters
In Boston.
Other women journalists connected with
the Boston Hould are Miss Josephine Jen-
kins, Of Boston, who belongs 10 the well
known Willis family, and no comes right.
fully by her literary proclivities; Mrs.
Anna N. d. Ellis, who edits the society
columns, and whose "Chats About Folks
over her nom de plume OF MAX Eliot
are widely read Mrs. Ellis belongs 10 q
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her uncles was the founder OF the Carlisle
school for Indians Ms. Louise G. Young
is the art editor; Miss George llamlin is
an atiache; and il is doubtful II any one il
better known in Boston than Miss Edith
N. Perry, the vivacious reporter. Mis-
Perry began her work at a very early age
on the 7rduiier, from which paper she
went to the Record. Still very young,
bright, smart, popular, full Of courage and
perseverance,, Miss Perry apparently has a
brilliant career before her.
Miss Minna Caroline Smith, Of the Id-
,ofiSr and Record, il a western girl who
likes her work and IL cminently successful
. in II. Miss Smith is the daughter OF a
clergyman, and inhcrits her literary in.
stincts She was born In California, but
grew up" in illinois, where. nj the age Of
nlHclctn, hilc lOlncu inc sun Ol TIC NhfT-
OcoaR. Two years later she went TO Europe
for her paper, and spent a year in Paris
aud London a. foreign correspondent. Miss
smith has been connected with the id-
trriiSr aud Record for nearly three years,
taking an editorial position ON the ldrcr.
hscf last March, and being also the ART
critic OF the paper She has written book
OF poems, "lm Fruitful lands" and also
a lively story Of western life, "Thc Boys oI
Cary Farm" which Is one Of our best
juvenile books She Is one Of the young
women ON the Hoston press who have NJ.
cciycd thorough newspaper training, and
are entirely competent TO perform all
kinds Of newspaper work. She Is bright
aud ircnchant writer, aud is bound "a
make for herself high place in the pro
lesion
Miss Lillian Whiting, Of the Truuiier, I.
the daughter oi the Hon. l.. u. Whiting
OF Fiskilna, III. After a year or two u
newspaper work In Cincinnati Miss Whit
ing came To Boston, and has by her ability
attained an honorable position. Mis'
Whiting II one OF the most popular OF the
Boston correspondents, and her name u
known throughout the west and south.
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