The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-27

Desecrate such a sanctuary with public adj
uiationg Never But she remembers also
how the days went by and there came a
letter. The idol had taken it for granted
she would know the reserve and outraged
majesty were not genuine; the idol enclosed
money for 100 copies of the paper contain
ing the article which must by that time be
ready 20 appear. LIST the information at
hand might not have proved sufficient the
idol sent clippings of three Mandatory
sketches written by three quicker wirted
journalists, and couple OF photographs
taken for the occasion.
She remembers the pleasant LADY, who in
her first lonely winter in the big city in
vited her to her afternoons She thought
she was asked for the pie .sure Of her COM
pany. and it never occurred to her to ga
zette the guests or to praise, in print. the
tea One day her hoStes spoke to her of
another reporter who had attended every
one of her receptions last winter and never
did a single thing for be-"
Never did anythingp came the per-
picked inquiry.
mot line. She has access to the society
columns of the -. the know"
A little wrinklng of the forehead. then
full illumination. 1t is the misfortune of
the society reporter that the people who
want free advertising are the ones with
who II she has frequently TO deal. She learns
to know so well the woman who receives
her lying in a froth of laces on pile of
softly tinted cushions. with shaded Indles
and dangerous perfumes to bewilder and to
charm. She understands the authoress of
the erotic novel not yes brought into paying
notoriety who asks her lunch aud confides
to her over dainty Segres aud iridescent
glass that she is ''afraid her last book
Is really quite wicked" | fear she
laughs when told of fathers of debutsnUes
r. g. -
over the placarding in their daughters
charms, knowing as she doas not infre-
quently that the pictures were obtained
IN private from the paternal albums. She
sees so much of these people that 1t is not
always easy TO bear in mind that they are
not usually people who have succeeded, but
people who would like TO succeed. There
is SO much insincerity that she sometimes
forgets there is great deal more sincerity.
Whether she is most creator of the craze
for publicity or most its victim, whether
she believes with unfiinching heartiness N
the word she does or whether she fully APP
preciates, as do many successful correspon-
dents. the vulg lrity of personal journalism,
she doesn't yield with oae-half the fire.
quency that outsiders might suppose to the
perilous temptation to pay off grudges and
to avenge sights, she doesn't violate conf
dence, and she respects the desire for pri-
there exists human being who doesn't de-
sire to see her name in the newspapers.
This is one side for one set of women.
Everyb DIV knows that women write the
columns of dire tions as to how to powder
your nose and how to do up your back hair.
Everybody does not know that the woman
who is telling you to-day what sorts of
hairpins Mrs Cleveland uses on Sundays.
and what kinds she prefers for Monday
afternoons, may have been writing yester-
day about the babiss' hospital, and may
give a mint tomorrow that will show a
SCORE of troubled women a possible money
making occupation. The women who
manage the charities, the womans ex-
changes, the training schools for nurses,
the free kindergartens, know how
much they owe 20 newspaper women.
The woman who has a helpful plan sees
first tie possibility of its realization
when she can win tue ear of an intelligent
woman reporter. One Of the most success
ful newspaper women | know said to me
yesterday that she loved her work because
it gave her SO many chances of doing good.
She could not give MONEY, but she could
give words that would put up blocks of
buildings. This is the other side for an
other set of women, in spite of which it re-
maIus true that the demand for articles
about what actresses eat and what the Van
astorbilts feed their poodle dogs is too
steady to permit the work of woman
newspaper correspondent to be considered
as opening, save III exceptional instances a
literary career.