St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-15
The LADY DELEGATE
Of Brilliant Attachments and
a Most Charming Com
panion.
Pen Pictures Of a Few Notable
Women Attending the
Convention.
Talks With Prominent Polit-
ical Editors on Topics of
the Day.
Personal Sketches, Notes and
General Convention
Chatter.

Alice B. Stockhem, M. D., is the
honored name of the vice president of
the Illinois Woman's Press association.
Mrs. Stockham is one of 4he most
famous advanced women of the time.
Her expressive, womanly face is familiar
not only to women's clubs in America
but in Europe as we'll. She is the
author of "Takology," book for
women, written by woman, sold by
women and bought by women. Mrs.
Stockholm is the publisher of Kinder
garten and is interested in every move
ment for the advance of women. The
Chicago newspaper women are in
deed we'll represented. Mrs. E. jeanette
Abbott. of the Herald and News, a
clever special and society writer. ac-
companies DR.. Stockholm. .MeSdameS
Mary Allen West, Belle Gorton, S. M.
Moses and Frances Owens fill up the
number of representatives of feminine
journalism in Chicago.
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Southern women are not commonly
considered progressive. The popular
idea of the typical woman on the other
side of Mason and DiXon's line is a
sweet, low-voiced, shrinking creature,
absolutely without business knowledge
or ability. Miss Virginia Clay, of the
Huntsville, Ala. Democrat, was one of
the first girl editors of the country.
Combining all the lovable qualities OF
the typical Southern woman, with the
business tact of Yankee. she has made
and kept an enviable position in news
paperdom. Miss Clay spent part of the
day yesterday as the guest OF Col. and
Mrs. Rugg. Miss McCullough,o of Hunts
vile, accompanies Miss Clay.
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The women of Kansas are forging
ahead with wonderful rapidity. Not
content with being merely counted in
with the men as Minnesota newspaper
women are, they have formed aW3man,,s
Press association. Mrs. Emma b. Al
rich, a bright-eyed, energetic, all-round
newspaper woman, is the president.
She can do anything about paper, and
does everything but run the hand
press. She is treasurer of the North
western Kansas Editorial association
and official secretary of the national
convention w. r. c., 1887. Miss Alrich
talks enthusiastically of the outlook for
women in her state, and is heart and
soul interested in all the advance move
mentS In Wnlcn women are cOuceTueu'
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There is one woman among the dele
gates who is entitled to write her name,
Mrs. Minnie D. Morgan, ex-mayor of
Cottonwood Falls, Kan. Mrs. Morgan
has been the invaluable assistant of her
husband in the publication Of the Chase
County Leader for twenty years, and i'll
moments of emergency has taken her
hands from the snowy -four of weeks
bread-making and rushed into the edi-
torial field with pencil or scissors. She
was elected mayor at the head of
ticket composed entirely of women. Her
administration was one of marked sue
cess and every saloon was rlgidly kept
closed. 1t was an era of prosperity for
the town, and goes to show that what
woman wants to do she will do, and do
we'll.
Will T. Jordan, of the Harrisburg Tel
egram, is displaying an invention which
marks the beginning of new era in
printing. 1t is nothing more nor less
than the printing of colored pictures by
one passage through the press. 1t has
never been attempted in newSpaperdOm
before, and Mr.. Jordan has ample reason
to be proud of his paper, with its gaud-
lily colOred picture OF Uncle Sam and
the American flag. The invention may
be applied to any cylinder press, and
takes no more time in the printing than
the ordinary process. Best of all, the
invention is the result of a woman's sug
gestion, Miss IneZ E. Hills, of the circu-
lation department of the Telegram, first
conceived the idea. One thousand dol
lars was bet the thing couldn't be done,
but done 1t has been. The COM
pleted invention is the work
of young Swede, Charles
Kelbut, himself the son of an
inventor. The patent is new, but its
possibilities are boundless, and like ev-
erYthing else in the world, there was
woman at the bottom of it.
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Not all the women with badges are
regularly appointed delegates. Some
of them are only powers behind the
throne. Said one handsome woman
yesterday to a reporter out on desper
ate search for readables: "No. am
not exactly an active newspaper woman
myself: but l manage my husband and
he manages the paper" And as the
husband just then appeared and was
managed very apparently, the state
ment was obviously true.