The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-05

Broadway. Here she at once became
noted FOR her skill and strength, and
presently ''long distance wire," of the
placed in her charge 1t is generally
considered that women have not
strength of wrist to work the instru-
ments that send messages across the
continent, but Mrs. Hitchcock proved
that she could do this with the best.
Next, for year or two, she was the
operator on the special wire in tbs
office of the Brooklyn Times. Mean
time, at odd intervals, she wrote
some newspaper letters on her own
hook, and proved that her capa-
bility here was no less than it had
been in telegraphy. She seemed to
grasp intuitively the salient points of in
terest in journalism, just as her ear and
brain had read the meaning of the
"click, click" of the telegraph. Finally
Mrs. Hitchcock abandoned telegraphy
altogether and entered the journalistic
field. Openings for newspaper work
came to her with what seemed marvel
Gus luck. But it would have been no
luck if she had not been brilliantly able
to do the work. Mrs. Hitchcock is
prominent member of Sorosis, and a
large, handsome, merry woman, with
scores of friends, who wish her all sue
cess in her journalistic career in Europe.
Annie Besant, from being the best
hated woman in England, has become,
perhaps, the most beloved one. Of all the
English women who have "views" she
is the ablest and most fearless. Ten
years ago her ideas were so unpopular
that the British nation stood up and
howled. Clergymen preached and wrote
against her, the law attacked her, the
British matron rolled up her eyes to
heaven, and the mob, set on by all these,
cursed her, and stopped only short of
personal violence. In the midst Of it all
visited her in the autumn of 1882 in the
little London Office in which she assisted
Charles Bradlaugh in editing his radical
newspaper. l suppose she was at that
time almost the loneliest woman in all
England. enjoyed visiting her all the
more that l was warned it was hardly
the proper thing to do. found sweet
voiced, comedy young woman, with a
face full of light and vim and
conviction. Her eloquence Nss second
only to her earnestness. I was so
charmed with the radical English wom-
an that | came straightway home to
America and wrote long newspaper let
ter about her full of gush and admira-
lion, of which she deserved every bit.
remember that the editor of the paper for
which l wrote the letter had some hest
tation in publishing it, so intense was the
prejudice against Annie Besant at that
time. And now she has lived it all
down simply by standing by her colors
and working for the good of mankind
She has served long and admirably as a
member of the London school board
among other posts of trust and honor she
has held. She has suffered as few wom-
en- have, and now the good time is COM
ing for her.
A new definition Of a society woman
Is abroad. A society woman is now de-
fined to be woman who belongs to a
great number of societies and clubs.
In the leading social circles of Wash
ington are several young women who
honorably earn their own living. Thus
the Capitol sets, as it should do, an ex-
ample to the rest of the republic.
In 1875 one-ffth of the female popula-
ton of Massachusetts, were wage earners.
In 1885 nearly one-third were thus en-
gagged, and there were only eight
branches of industry in the whole state
in which women did not work.
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