The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-02-22


through the republican sheets in which
Nubertine ALBERT and Louise Michel (the
demagogues) air their socialistic theories.
Correspondence-reporting, as it is I'M
derstood among English speaking nations
does not exist in France. The first
foreign woman to brook these conven-
tionalities was an Irish woman, Mrs.
Emily Crawford, today quoted author
ity in London. As the wife of Mr. Craw-
ford, for many years chief of the foreign
bureaus of correspondents, she came to
Paris previous to the war, and her jour
nalistic career began in those exciting
days.
ut wiped away the prejudices, the
conventionalities which had surrounded
me since my BIRTH" said this nestoress Of
women journalists in recounting her ex-
periences. st broadened my views of
life and taught me that the best people of
every nation are the common people; the
best school, hardship" Mrs. Crawford
is strong, vigorous woman, with snow
white hair, dark eyes, with much of the
native wit in the corners of her deter
mined mouth. She has written since she
was IS years old. With her brilliant
husband, who is said to have been the
original of Worthington in Thackerays
"Pendennis," she has always had the so
ciety of thinkers. He was strong anti
conservative long before the Republican
party came in power. Intimate with its
leaders, Mrs. Crawford had rich fund
of anecdote to draw upon when they as
sumed the reins of government, and her
letters have always been widely quoted.
Her work, however, had been insepara-
BILE from that of her husband until his
death in 1885, when she assumed his po-
sition, which she retains with strength
that is universally recognized. The Lon
don Daily News furnishes her a special
wire at cost of $4,000 a year. She
sends every pight two columns Of mat
ter. Her son assists her, but it is rarely
that she leaves her Office before / or 2
o'clock in the morning. Mrs. Crawford
is particularly strong IN political sub-
Jects, and is writing "History of the
French Revolution" For many years
she has been correspondence The New
York Tribune. English journals pay lib
orally, much more SO than American
newspapers, who in turn pay better than
the French press. In all probability Mrs.
Crawford commands the highest salary
OF any woman journalist.
what do you think of journalism as
profession for women?' was asked Mrs.
Crawford as she sat in her pleasant
salon, on whose walls hang her portrait
painted when she was 81, by Tagnanini,
who perpetuated the beauty of many
American bellies in his "Nine Muses." at
the Metropolitan museum.
swell, | should say the first requisite
was a giant constitution, was the reply.
"A woman of delicate physique may do
good work by spells, but the ceaseless
grind of the regular journalistic life re-
qulres the strongest constitution. | know
could never have endured what have
had less physique. There is no race SO
vigorous as the Irish. The English have
not half their endurance. / live on the
simplest food-rice, vegetables; and eat
meat but once day." At 60 Mrs. Craw-
ford has the strength of a vigorous man
of 40.
ITO illustrate that strong physique
is womans chief requisite in journal
ism, she continued, 81 will tell you in
cidents In my career The visit Of the
shah to Paris in 1873 caused great excite
ment. The News did not awaken to its