Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-04-26
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Where Could They Find the All Round
Young Newspaper Woman?

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Young Newspaper Woman?
A large newspaper establishment re-
Gently wanted an exchange editor. The
ordinary tag clipper would not do A
person was wanted here who had
bright eager mind and living interest
in all that interested humanity. The
new editor would have to be acquainted
with the current questions of the day,
from Gamers talking balloons to
schemes for municipal reform He must
have running knowledge of foreign
politics, be acquainted with accounts OF
the latest inventions and discoveries,
know the respective views Of the gold
bugs, the free silverites and those who
think they have exploded both the COLO
and silver theories and got a peg be-
yond and want currency resting on
the faith Of the nation. The editor must,
further, be up in social economics and
woman's rights as far as they have got,
must know the Briggs case, the Park
hurst disturbance and the Breckenridge
unpleasantness. He must be acquainted
with the latest ideas ON manual training
and college football, as well as gynnas-
tic culture in girls colleges. These are
few Of the things which the new ex-
change editor should know Ii you look
through the list, you will perceive that,
formidable as it seems, there is not
thing in it actually beyond the knowl-
edge and understanding Of the thorough
reader of newspapers, nothing that any
really intelligent American should be
ignorant of. The firm would just as soon
have had young woman as young
man in the place if they could have
found suitable one. They began search
ing among the young newspaper women
they knew or had heard Of. Hundreds
apply to them every year for employ
ment, in dire distress some of them, with
tears in their eyes. Manuscripts almost
enough to build Bunker Hill monument
come to them in a year from girls who
think they have mission to write Yet
when the firm looked about for the girl
who could fill the place, among all
these hundreds, even thousands, she
was nowhere. Two or three they could
recall who could take the desk, yet ev-
cry one Of these was already employed
elsewhere at high pay. Now, whether
you are newspaper woman or any 9th
er woman, find the moral to this story
for yourself and go and learn something.
Do learn something and learn it thor
oughly. Then the world will want you
Many young women declare they want
career more than they want husband
They can have both if they secure the
career first.
To me the saddest, most humiliating
thing in connection with that horror at
Washington is the fact that a woman
could be found in the United States who
would marry William c. p Breckin-
ridge.
The Boston Globe had an amusing
cartoon on the subject of the passage
by the Massachusetts legislature Of the
bill granting municipal suffrage to
women A lady has on her right good
looking young man whom she holds fast
by string. This represents the Massa-
chusetts house. On her left 5lss is g grim grim
and staring wildly before him. This is
the senate, which the lady has not yet
roped.
Of New York city papers The Press
has come out openly and strongly for
woman suffrage, The Recorder favors it,
and the editor of The Recorder woman's
page, Mrs. Haryot Holt Cahoon, is a
thoroughgoing advocate of it. The Sun
announces editorially that it is not un-
friendly to woman suffrage With jour
mails like these on our side our cause is
almost won
Two years ago a number Of girls
working in the Indianapolis laundries
established a cooperative laundry Of
their own. 1t is joint stock concern
and is called the Cooperative Union
laundry. The capital stock was So, 900,
about two-thirds of which was paid in
in cash at the start. The young women
themselves elect from their own number
board of trustees, who control the con
Germ. Not understanding the direct
financial management they hired man
to attend to that for them. He proved
faithful to his trust. The laundry has
earned this year 54 per cent net on its
capital and paid higher wages to its en-
ployees than many other laundries do
1t is championed fortunately by the Cen
tral Labor union Of Indianapolis.
ELIZA ARcHARD CONNER.