Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-11-04
rAcTFuLNEss OF JOURNALISM.
How the Society Reporter Got Ahead of
the Other Fellow.

How the Society Reporter Got Ahead of
the Other Fellow.
She was what is called "quite bright
woman" In the New York vernacular
this term applies to any woman of sense
below the age Of 80. after which they are
called "brainy'' and don't seem to like it,
Her appearance was such that even So
ciety reporters merely described her as
possessing "an attractive personality"
This is significant fact. The society re-
porter is never rude. If you are a million
aires daughter and Of average looks, he
will describe you as beautiful and pos
sessed Of indescribable chic"
II you have few thousands and dress
well-even though you have no eyelashes
porter will still be kind and allude to you
as "a young woman of considerable per-
sonal attractions"
1t is only when he describes you as Sin
teresting rather than strictly beautiful
that you may realize that probably your
nose Is all out of drawing, your eyes wa
terry, and that what there Is of your hair
is the wrong color In short, this last ex-
preston Is the worst that the society re-
porter can do to you'll you are in society
And If you are not in society-well,
then, he wouldn't know even who you
are, don't you know.
The society reporter had not yet applied
this final damning descriptive term to her
Of whom write because she had not yet
become "brainy," and-more important
still-she was not poor.
She smiled upon young man, and, al
though her smile was about two inches
too long and too toothy to be pretty, he
decided to WOO her. He had been told that
she was Upright" So he decided to woo
her as bright woman should be wooed in
his opinion.
II will not insult your preternatural
intelligence" he began, "by telling you
that you are beautiful. You are too clever
to swallow that sort Of humbug. Besides
beauty is not what am after. It Is tran
sient and unsatisfying. But you have
mind. One cannot expect to find mind
and beauty combined'-
But at this point the young lady said,
"Take me back to my chaperon." And
the local temperature went down to freez-
ing point.
| Now this happened at function.
| A function" Il q meeting Of people
| AOAN ~ AcsA ~ Aouboo AVA UAo pAOlAioU1oh VI
employment among dressmakers, florists
and society reporters. At this particular
function the society reporter, having been
at several other functions and having
slipped olaret punch and champagne frappe
at each, had accumulated what In lower
circles is known as "a pretty considerable
| jag" Therefore In reporting this function
| he got his terms mixed.
The next morning on reading the morn
ing paper Mrs. Golde-D Dollar, the million
aires wife, found herself described as Gin
teresting rather than strictly beautiful"
while she Of whom write read for the
first time that she was beautiful and pos
sessed Of understandable ohio"
The society reporter was denied entrance
at Mrs. Golde- Dollars next function. And
when the young man-who thought that
bright women should be wooed differently
from other women-saw the marriage Of
the bright woman and the society reporter
In the paper he wondered how on earth
the other fellow had got ahead Of him.
Jessie M. Wood in Life