Telegram-herald., 1890-02-25
WOMEN JOURNALISTS.
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PAKIs. Feb. e.-Women a. news gath
eress in Paris are . foreign tnnovs
tion. OF the many invaders who have
helped to bring about the democracy Of
France. perhaps they are not the least
factor. May not the much quoted spho-
risrn Of Victor Hugo, 1.-The Nineteenth
century Is women's century" have been
inspired BY the women correspondents
who sought his saloni Certain, il is rare
70 find one Of the craft who does NOT
treasure the friendship Of the great poet
IS one Of the most fattering recompensss
Of their varied calling. Now, as in the
time OF Mime. do Stael, many of the
brightest, ablees contributors 10 the
Parisian press are women Their iden-
tiEy Is concealed under pseudonyms. and
after the manner Of their masculine COM
petitors, they rarely venture beyond the
subjects Of which they have made espe-
cial study. The political writer would
no more assume to discuss art, music or
literature than the fashion gossiper TO
advance scientific theories. The standard
Of journalism in Paris is quite apart
from that OF England or the Uuited
States. The first requisite is literary
merit Men and women meet on COM
mon ground and are recompensed ac-
cordingly. To have achieved notoriety
in any other field, happily. Is not q
requisite to journalistic or literary recog-
milton In France The hrst and greatest
woman journalist was Nine. Emile, who
fiourished between 1sS94S, when jour
nalism OF the old school achieved its
greatest luster. or later day is Mime.
Adam (Juliette Lambert), of La Nouvelle
Revue. This journal, while less serious
than The Revue des Deux Mondes, is the
medium through which younger writer's
are gaining recognition. and it scintillates
with much talent of great promise.
Mime. Adam is one of the most intel
lectual and brilliant conversationali4s at
the French capital
Powerful in its way Is The Nouvelle
Revue International, which has for its
editress a once famous beauty, Nine. de
Rute, whose daughter married this win
ter Spanish grandee of colossal fortune
Its editress is a woman of the world, con-
sequently woman with a history. A
granddaughter Of Julian Bonaparte, her
father was British minister to Greece.
She is the widow Of three husbands,
French. Italian and Spanish, and wittily
declares that to woman with such ped
igree death has no terrors." Her second
husband was prime minister to Italy. She
has a charmingly smooth style and has
written many plays, which have been
produced in her own theatre. Versatile.
eccentric, every salon has its anecdote Of
this clever woman. Found weeping over
the Paris directory one day, she was
asked the cause of her tears. 'I have
found the name of one man who has not
been in love with me-" said this passe
enchantress.
"Etincelle' is the pseudonym of Baron
ess Double. who has written many years
for The Figaro. Her Notes of Society
Man." published in this greatest of
French journals, was long thought TO
have been written by man. Brilliant
critiques from the pen of Judith Gautier,
daughter of Theophile Gautier; Nine. Al
phonse Daudet and Nine. Mary Reynolds
(Gil Bias appear regularly in the leading