Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-01-27
ALL GO TO GOTHAM
That's Where the Girls Go 70
Learn 70 Write.
WHAT THEY ARE SURE TO FIND
Especially What The Dc Not FinS-Fifty
Applicants For Every Vacant
Flace--Begin Al Home.

NEW YoKE. Jan 25-If you are wom-
m and have any idea Of coming TO New
York 10 write for nswspapers-don't do
IL. That. briefly. IL the best recon-
msadatlon nybo1y can give you. Un-
less ycu have . 1xed contract before
yoQ come that you are 10 occupy a GER
/. tan place - = certain price. shan New
York - yoa wsald shan purgatory as a
locality IN which 70 initiate journalistic
experiments. One managing editor
know of sees from ave To fifty applicants
. week for the cAazcs TO write just
snSuzh TO pay fer days board. per
hArs even nights lodging, or dinner
for . stomach that has not known a
good square meal sometimes In several
days. He gives them one and all the
advice have 50 generously offered at
the head OF this column They are not
grateful to hirn for tie recommendation
however. They say with q face and
voice quite the reverse Of grateful, '-Oh.
yes, you have come to New York and
succeeded yourself. and now you arc
ike al the rest; yoa are trying to keep
other people out of the profession +"
Then the managing editor answers only,
Every well; try It."
They do try it. Yesterday the man
aging editor gave one Of these aspiring
individuals who had tried IL dollar TO
get him out Of town. Try il, by all
means, dol
AT present there Is tremendous tidal
wave OF young women pouring into New
York from al parts Of the Union Some
CT them have had neat httle successes on
country newspapers and wish To Try
their wings IN a metropolitan flight.
Others. heaven help them, know no
more about newspaper writing than
some politicians know about the golden
rule. Two-thirds OF them cannot even
write correctly. yet they somehow fancy
they have only 10 come to New York,
pen little screed about how New York
girls pinch their waists and paint their
faces, and the writer viii swim into
print upon wave OF glory at ten dollars
q column and settle down In an expen-
ave fat and so into social high life in
New York city. Not one in 100 Of these
poor girls succeeds. The fate of some
who come here | DO not care to think
about. The rest stay till they have
spent all their money, and T. n borrow
or beg enough 20 take them lack home
again Lucky they are if they have
homes TO 20 back to.
To begin, these poor girls have no
idea Of the preparation required for the
true journalist. When . candidate APP
plies for place on the London Times
he 10 taken into room and invited to
SIT down before table. Upon the table
are psn. ink and paper. A subject is
then given 20 him and he is told to make
IN article out of it, editorial or other
wise, - the case may be. Not a book
pr paper y allowed in the room, and
bhsfs, without ray to guide him be-
tond the hight Of knowledge and logic
That shines from his own brain, the can
nidate Is expected 10 construct an article
good enough to print in the London
Times. Hsw many Of the thousands Of
girls that think themselves qualified to
Instruct the public - journalists could
10 this, Yet it 10 nothing more than any
Ill round journalist ought to be able
10 do.
Years Of preparation are required to
mako woman . successful physician.
lawyer. teacher, artist, or even o good
miiliner. dressmaker or cook. How,
then. can q crude. ignorant girl, with no
knswiedge Of the world. no knowledge
Of current literature, art, politics, his
tory. social. ethical and economic cues
tions presume 70 think herself capable
Of writing for the press that which will
be helpful 70 humanity? 1t is mystery.
and an insxplicabls one Do you know
what it means to b moderately sue
cessful journalist? 1t means that you
must read . good newspaper all through
every day and keep yourself en- rapport
with the things that interest mankind.
You must know about the political his.
tory and government OF your own and
other countries. You must know the
merits Of the labor question. the social
Ist question. the single tar question, the
woman question.
You must b thoroughly up ON mod
I'm sanitation and hygiene. The great
esld of invention. science and discovery
hes before you. Enter il and CLEAN
from II constantly al that the reading
world win value. Literary lights
rsastsi or Eudyard Kipling-fash across
he Armament A wonderful dramatic
genius. perhaps that greatest Of all liv-
Ing wemsa. Sarah Bernhardt. appears.
New doctrines. cranky OF otherwise; the
mind care. theosophy. Dslsartisn, loom
apsn the horizon Of mems thought. All
lhese ysu must follow MP and Be able
- write intelligestly about. Nay. if you
wcrs called 10 report the United States
srmsr tests as Indian Head, you ought to
b. 80 trained that yov would know how
70 get in haf an hour's time the technic-
u knowledge and terms required to do
s usdsrstAndingly. know several
women journalists who can do all that I
rave named and more. Besides this.
loo, . woman IS expected TO know about
1rsss. fashions and society, and have
Whole cookery beck in her head ~ well.
The journalist Ia the teacher Of man
khs in eur tine. fIs OF she. more than
my ether person alive. needs TO be an
ef kaosvledgs. The Jour
,asxt whe u IN love with her work takes
bride II making every sentence model
Il Seed. clear English Sa. trims il -
Elegantly. carefully and teaderly as .
gardener does new prize rose. She ia
II c.reful to ssIi The truth a. she il TO
Rep der hands slssa. when her work
; saeeessfal Is gives her IN ssshefic de-
ght - keen IS that with which AN ar