Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31

NEN Ohh, MAY 81 ubl LllNh
ever ssw girl cry harder. First,
veniuEed to sympaihize with her By
words. They were Of no use. Then |
offered that infalli5le consoier-a cupof
tea. II was Of no use at all. At last |
lost my temper and tried what common
sense would do. said when you
wrote to me last year and asked me, an
utter stranger to you, to give you my
advice about coming 10 New York to
earn your living with your pen, ! told
you that you had better stay at home;
that where ono woman succeeded, there
were nine hundred and ninety nine vino
failed; and that while ambition was
very good thing, the knowledge that
you had a roof over your head and
plenty of bread and butter for the rest
of your life was deal sight better.
You said your father was able 10 sup.
port you, but that you yeaTned to be
Independent. Now, that was your first
mistake. A good daughter is indepen-
dent when she does her duty in her
fathers household and fits herself to be
the head Of another one.
AMATEURIsH WOMEN WRITER'S.
"But no, you thought you had posi-
DllAlACs hat l4AilElabus lOu ADugulLEA
that you would never write anything as
silly as fashion article, and that you
were going TO do something TO make
your people proud Of you. Well, you
came, and you were surprised u dis.
cover how much money it took 10 get
even tiny bit Of room in a respecta.
BILE clearinghouse. Then YOU started
in to see the different editors. They
were polite TO you-they generally are
but they sounded you in five minutes
and made you feel, in five more, tina.
they would be obliged to you II you
would leave. After that you came 10
see me. asked you what You had
written, and you showed me the usual
work Of the amateur, Newzpape
Cont want the opinions Of girls az 10
on subjects after the style Of those
discussed by debating societies; they
want either news or original
matter, and by original matter
mean pictures OF life CLEANED
from experience and touching subjects
that are novel. | told you to 20 home
and write an article describing the lHtle
village from which you came. You did,
and that sold Then, instead of con.
tinuing in that line, you carried down
some nonsense about your opinion of
the Romans as orators. Ii you had told
about some village orator and shown UP
his queerness Of speech and oddities of
manner, you might have sold that, but
no, you must harp on the things that
nobody wanted to read and with which
editors are inundated Now, the best
thing for you 10 do is to 60 home. You
evidently wont, or can't give what the
public wants, consequently there is no
place for you in the newspaper world.
Go back home, be good girl, make
yourself useful where you are, and TWO
years from now | shall expect an invi-
tation to your wedding 10 the dearest
fellow in the world"
SCHOOLGIRL COMPOSITIONS not WANTED
don't know whether she went home
or not; she left me feeling very indiy.
nant, but it is Just possible tint when
she was by herself the small modicum
Of common sense which she possessed
came to the surface and she did as she
was advised. There arc plenty of women
all over the country who think that
am severe. There arc hundreds of them
who write TO me asking my advice about
coming TO New York and writing 70,
papers and magazines, and | want this
letter TO be a round robin to them. II
you can write anything worth reading
or which has a market value, il car
come just as well from where YOU ara
now; and if it has value that viii
quickly be recognized. Editors ar,
always looking for something good anC
original, but they don't want schoolgirl
compositions, nor their opinions OH The
great questions of the day
AT the beginning of this told abou
one girl who made a mistake. Here i
the story Of another. She was bright
pretty and decidedly attractive. She in
troduced herself to me at bazaar, anC
asked me in very sweet way if
would mind telling her what she hat
better do about one special thing. Jus
at this moment, however, she excused
herself, said she was Obliged to speak /,
some OF the reporters and that she woult
be back in few minutes. Later Oh.
Jaw her talking to them. They wer
nice young fellows, well-mannered
well-educated and good workers, bu
she wasn't adding to her position b
being chummy with them, and She wa
lowering herself in their eyes. About
month afterward saw her again. Sp
had gotten space work on two or thre
newspapers and she believed that sh
= knew thoroughly the art Of succeedin
In the newspaper world.
SHE WAS "HAIL-FELLow. WELL NET
with great many men, she spoke i
The most familiar manner of the diffe
snt men employed on the papers, an
seemed TO think that familiarity bro
respect rather than contempt. don
believe that girl thought anythin
wrong, but she went 70 work in IL
wrong way. A women can do her wof
well and thoroughly without hayi1
anything more than a formal acquain
ince with the people among whom a
3 thrown, and il may he taken as
ruth that while the popular wona
may hold her own for little while,
s the women who simply does d,
work, and isn't "chummy," wi
Ichieves what she wishes. 4 woma
may be quoted in the papers
being popular, and she may
naking $500 a year, where anoth
Woman, who, perhaps, never saw ms
Who buys her work, whose appearan
unknown, and whose friends are n
he people in the same line of work wi
Ne earning her thousands. Ny dear gil
do know what / am talking abOu
popularity will not pay your bills,
make your work good. The day con
Fhen had u work, and realized tn
:. must do the work that was offered
ne, and not that which preferred. d
vi this great army Of dear, hopeful gir
hink they can do what they like, al
hey come here, have their hearts hui
md unless they are very strong me
ally to make failures of their lave
Dne girl who came to me scoffed at Il