The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-14
GAY CARRIE CARELESS.
GOSSIP ABOUT LIBRARY AND
OTEER WOMEN OF NEW YORK.

OIEER WOMEN OF NEW 4Ohh.
The Dstroit "Fres Press" Man Has
Come to TOWN. Young Woman E o
Plucky That She Does Not Fear Even
the Dead-A Few Words to Young
Women Who Want TO Go Into Jour
nalism-A New Kind OF Fancy Work
Which Isn't So Very Fancy After All
The Garden Matinee at Stevens Cas-
tle-Dr. Houghton and the Profession.
a New Style Of Dress.
Copyright. 1917
NEW YORK, June 13.-Wey up in the
Pulitzer building, so near the skies that at
night he can read by the light of the moon
and stars aud by day can be warm by tbs
suns first glances, there now sits NJ. Quad,
the Detroit Free Press man. His right
name is G. B. Lewis, but he has christened
himself Quad and he writes under the name
of Quad, and Quad he will now be to the
end Of the chapter.
He began as printers devil, and while
filling that difficult and thankless office,
composed few articles all by himself and
set them up in type. From the day on
which his first original work appeared until
now his progress has been onward and up
ward. He now receives $4,000 a year for
his work.
The west, with its opportunities for enter
prise and oftentimes the necessity for self
culture, has given US many a product of
which the older civilization might be proud.
From Milwaukee, with the best education
to be obtained in the universities of Michi-
gan, comes Miss Elizabeth Jean Jordan, q
pretty dark-eyed, black-haired young girl,
half-Spanish ia descent. She takes assign
ments and goes about collecting news as if
she were a man, and, what is more, SHE
comes back to the office and writes I'D her
'story" in a way which is the envy of many
a man who claims that newspaper women
are out of place in the journalistic field, and
that they retain their positions through
favoritsm rather than earnest work
Miss Jordan contradicts this by every act
of her journalistic life, moving about with
a swing a1d an independence that is all her
own. One day sees her en- route for the
south where, among the wilds of Virginia,
she spends seven days and nights in the
saddle, looking up story and stopping for
rest only when nightfall forbids further
pursuit Of her mission. Another time finds
her, at a sudden summons from her editor,
invading the morgue in company only with
the keeper in search of the body of a dead
baby whose parents were TOO poor to give it
burial and who were obliged 10 send 1t to a
morgue to be buried at the city's expense.
With but two hours notice, dinnerless,
fatigued with the work of the day, the
plucky httls woman looked up the baby,
found its little body in its rough little coffin
and wrote up the STORY" turning in the
copy before midnight, so that it might be
in time for the next mornings paper. So
pathetic were the details of the poverty and
sorrow Of the parents that before 10 o'clock
in the morning enough money had been
subscribed to take the little one to its last
poor resting place.
"Shall go into journalismw Would you
advise me to be a newspaper reporterl Is
there chance for met is a question that is
asked by many young woman who is
enamored of the accounts which she reads
in newspaper paragraphs of life with the
types.
To such there Is but one answer, and it
will apply to any and all seeking informa-
ton on this subject.
If you have endless patience. great good
nature, don't know what IL is to be dis
couraged, can summon tact and persever-
ance as your handmaidens, are fairly well
educated, have magnificent health, aud the
feeling that there is nothing in the heavens
above or In the earth beneath or the waters
which surround the earth or in the atmos-
phere that envelops it, about which you
canuot get full and accurate description,
If IL pleases you to do so then you may be
sure that you have the journalistic feeling,
and that the newspaper instinct abides in
you.
And you may grasp the reporters note
book and the pencil sharpened at both ends
and prosper, for you are starting from the
roads which lead to great comfort and con-
tentinent and ioy-and more than this it is
not given to the lot of mortals to enjoy.
There Is a new kind of fancy work which
isn't so very fancy after all, because It is
rather hard and wearisome to handle. 1t
is tie decorating of door panels to be in
serted in ones door or in the casing where
ever a panel shall seem to be needed.
The panels can be purchased in various
sizes and In different kinds of wood TO cor
respond with the woodwork with which they
are to go. With one of them mounted on
an easel before her and camp stool under
meath with her paints upon it, mahl stick In
hand, the fair young girl artist who has
hitherto dabbled in silk and satin painting
feels as II she had a laborious contract be-
fore her. Yet this painting on panels, even
though they are large, is a very agreeable
piece OF WORK, for it shows each touch OF the
brush and being large ia de-
cidedly snowy when done. The old style
OF palntlng plates, placques, tides and
bannerettes has gone out and, in place Of
it, there has come the fashion Of doing
broader. Shower, more decorative kinds OF
fancy work which shall be not only more
for the money, but more useful and effect
i've when done.
We are becoming more beautifully Eng
lish every day. AT Stevens castle, back of
Hoboken, up on the heights, there was given
June 16 most unique out-of-door theatre
cal entertainment, and one which, from it's
success, will probably be followed by
several others.
No less important people than Rose