The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-20

! AAfANNo WtlAN 10 NAle secretary.
by and by the secretary began to give a
| part of her time and attention to the "busi-
ness end" OF the paper She developed a
faculty for management, and after trying
| Tor awhile to do her new work by day and
| get up columns Of mining news by night she
| concluded that to burn the editorial oil regus
larly until midnight was not good policy
and, accordingly, an assistant, a man, was
| obtained who helped her with the mining
news, and finally took it altogether off her
hands. The secretary's whole time was oc-
cupled with more responsible duties. Then
the business manager of the paper left and
IL seemed to the whole staff perfectly fit and
| natural that the person who had been long,
est IN the office and knew most about its
affair should take his position, and 30 in
the first number of the Journal for 1890
appeared notice at the head of the editorial
columns stating that "Mrs Sophia Braeun-
lica, who has been connected with the
journal for the past ten years, passing
through every department, and who during
the last year has taken an active part in the
business management, on Jan. / was APP
pointed business manager"
went to see Mrs. Braeunlich in her
| Office the other day, curious to know what
| manner of woman should be the business
manager of mining engineer's trade paper.
Kate Field has a woman, and young and
| clever one, to manage her new Washing
ton venture. Jennie June's fortnightly,
me W0mdns Cycle, is published and
| managed by Mrs. c. II. Haley; Susan G.
Vogl is the very efficient business manager
| of the Womdn's Journal and other pub
locations edited and controlled by women
have women to solicit advertisements, but
| the management of a paper devoted to the
engineering arts seemed hardly promising
| feminine field
The first thing notable was the reflex
mutual action upon each other of Office aud
woman. The woman is charming, and 80 is
her Office The office is thoroughly business
| like, and so is the tall, graceful woman with
the white apron and the big brown eyes.
The room is daintily clean-startling inno-
walton; it is big-in the business section of
| New York more startling still. The floor
is stained dark, and there is a square of
tawnY carpet. There are two high laces
curtained windows, with Gagged canary
bird chirping and gurgling in each.
| orchids hang their weirdly beautiful
| flowers from hooks and crannies,
and tall palms nod over the desk tops. The
smoke from the elevated railroad, whose
trains thunder past Just around the corner
all day long is very bad for the growing
things and they do not do we'll, SO Mrs.
Braeunlich says, but you would never sus-
pect that they were not flourishing uncoms
monty without the explanation. The walls
| OF this business boudoir are painted a
| bluish-gray, and there are big bookcases
| filed with reference volumes, and a tiny
birch bark canoe hanging from the gas fix
ture for odds and ends
There's always difference on this point
among business women. Some take pictures
and portieres and homelike surroundings
into the dreariest office blocks Others
accept philosophically with the new life the
| usual masculine concomitants OF dirt and
| disorder. For a beginner innovations in
the way of 'fixingsn are often bad policy,
but when woman has an assured position
she can have as pretty draperies as does Miss
Agnes X. Murphy, New York's woman
real estate agent, or indulge in canary revels
aud scorn untidiness like Mrs. Braeunlich,
and who shall dare grumblel
Mrs Braeunlich is so modest and unas-
suming and 30 much in earnest about her
work that it is hard to get her to talk
about herself. She's very willing to tell
| you how indispensable the Journal Is to
mining men aud what fine book the new
volume about gems, by Kunz of Tiffany's,
which the company is TO publish, is sure to
be, and about the kindness of the editor
president and his readiness to discover
| and reward merit in woman
employe, as in one with a bass voice
| and whiskers. You have TO find ont by
slow degrees that her own share In the busi-
| ness is to look after four or five advertising
solicitors in New York and lot more all
over the country, and to solicit advertise
ments by correspondence and look after the
make up of thirty, forty or sometimes even
sixty pages of advertisements in a week,
and keep the subscription clerks up to their
work, and manage an expert edition, and
make payments and receive them, and
supervise the bookkeeping, and in general
run things in big office of which
she is practically at the head.
| All this is no trife for a woman
who looks just about the right age TO
be the belle of ballroom. But she has
worked up to her place a step at time, as
a man would do if he had it in him and
didn't get drunk, and 50 is easily able to
attend to it. Cases like hers strengthen in
one who knows much of present conditions
the conviction that there is much less of
sex discrimination in business than is com
monty supposed Sometimes the woman
who is as good an ''all-roundn hand in an
Office as a man suffers because of the lower
reputation Of her relatively Hess efficient
sisters, but usually the woman who has it
| in her will succeed
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToH.