St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-04
WOMEN JOURNALISTS
They Are Characterized AS
Being Disagreeable
People.
II Genius Is Irritable, Is Not
Stupidity Irrltat-
ing.
The Charge Is Sometimes
Made That They Write
Too Much.
A Very Interesting Talk
About the New York
Fashions.

NEW YORK, June 3. 1898.
journalists have won themselves the
name of being sharp, acid, disagreeable
people, with strong taste for scandal,
and utter disregard for the feelings of
others. 1t is difficult to pick up mod
ern novel now without finding the
woman journalist with her sharp. i'll
natured conversation, her plnce neZ, land
her notebook very much to the front.
If she is really like this. if the habit of
writing promotes the habit of gossip,
and the garnering of knowledge, the
want of charity, then it is bad look
out for the band of self-supporting
women that come under the head of
journalists, who are increasing every
day.
1t is the old story. Give dog bad
name, etc. The woman Journalist is
perhaps over-independent circum-
stances and her mode OF life make her
so-but there is surely something to be
very much admired about her indie
pendence. 1t seems to be foregOne
conclusion that clever woman should
be cat. 1t IS not necessary. 1t Is no
more necessary for clever woman to
be cat than for stupid woman to be
amiable. We hear great deal about the
irritability of genius.
Genus Irritable vatum, which, being
interpreted, means the irritable tribe of
poets, but there are not many absolute
geniuses that apply themselves to jour-
naliSm; it is not satisfying or lasting
enough. But granted that they are
geniuses, | never saw that the irrita-
~ In ,r,it lava inC iC
more evident than the eholer of people
without, and the latter article is GER
tainly of trying order.
One thing is pretty hard on the wom-
Ell journalists. They all. more or less,
have to write great deal about moth
ing. TO prepare two or three long
paragraphs every week about nothing
to prepare petticoats, coffee and how
to improve the mpleXi0n-is rather
like getting blood out of stone, you
know. But the big caterers for the
reading public will have it, you know;
the papers get bigger every day. and
they must be filled somehow. If
one doesn't supply matter an
other will. In this advanced
age it is no use waiting until
you have something to say. If you wait
until then you may starye. The thing
is to put the nothing that you have
to say 80 artisticaily that the read
ing public will think it is something.
and something very good, too. This is
the chief difficulty with which the Wom-
all journalist has to contend. If she has
to lend her ear to scandal, flavor it and
serve it up temptingly for her million or
SO of readers, or use the foibles OF her
friends as a little extra material, we
Ia hot Oh 10 n liftla
pressed than usual for something to
write about.
What she earns is well earned. She
is often trudging about all day in all
weathers in search of copy, and she has
to encounter all sorts of women and all
sorts of tempers. Her researches into
fashion, for instance, what bears of
shopmen and insolent peacocks OF shop
women she is sometimes dependent
upon for information about the styles"
Some of the crumbs of information that
she picks up must have cost her some
pride and modification. No, won't
have 1t that the woman journalist
anything but rather nervous, over
walked. over-worked creature; and if
she out-writes herself-well, that is not
her fault, is itp The supply will keep
on as long as the demand, and,
after all. it is not only the
literary people who say too much.
Moire is coming in again, and is in ac
cordance with the quaint old fashions
which we are revivlng in large meas
ure. Now MORE is one of the good
things Of which you can have decidedly
too much. 1t must be used SDarlngly.
A gown of MORE is hideouS, but trim
mings of MORE give great style to
10 nf tho nf tho
son to combine washable materials with
costly ones, such as silk and satin. We
see moire on linen gowns, on Holland
gowns, on pique gowns-in fact, on all
kinds of simple materials. The way
they are used is as revers, as collars, as
vests and bands ON the skirts. Satin is
used in exactly the same way, only 1t Is
now older. and the tickle public will
soon tire of it.
Another sudden fashion this season Is
insertion. 1t is peculiarly well adapted
to the style of skirt which we are now
forever wondering how to trim. In
sertio0 comes to our aid--effective, new.
stylish and expensive. Anything that
is not expensive just now is made so
by some addition like this, which on a
linen or Holland gown makes the ex-
pense equal to foulard or cloth one.
Holland gowns are lined with satin,
and thus the extras on the gown are far
more expensive than the gown Itself.
Redfern tells me that the gowns and
coats which he is bringing out just now
are all copies more or less faithful,
generally MORE" of mems attire.
Little, jaunty, smart cut-away coats are
made in exact imitation of mans. and
vests OH the same principle. The vest
e i,,Ix LIND ~ fbinO oh
no mall who had any respect for himself
could possibly wear unless he were per-
FORMING on the music-haIl stage. 1t is
the make and cut wherein the man sets
the copy and the woman follows.