The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-02-29
Grand Y. nARA1s n1 N FEB !! Z! 2, 1893.

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The subject was : english Women In Jour.
nalisln. - Miss Stuart's account Of how
the woman journalist came to be and
what she Is at the present time In Enp.
land is full Of interest for women on this
side OF the Atlantic. Miss Stuart sava
that among the widely differing causes tc
which tho newspaper woman in the United
Kingdom owes her existence. the flnaneial
depression Of s. years ago, which, to d
great extent, closed the ono Legitimate
profession open TO women viz, private
teaching-is chiefly responsible.
Women found themselves In possession
OF stock In trade Of knowledge, unsala.
I. bic in the old markets. But the necessity
OF living by their own exertions pressed
nearer and harder upon them.
Necessity gave an Important final push
20 the wonan's movement, but she had
long ,heen preparing for that liberty of
thouaht and action which have bean SO
rapidly accorded her during the LAST Ave
and twenty years Necessity, then--usinQ
/ the term in Its widest sense necessity,
that mighty mother Of Invention, intro
duoed to the world e young. and. at fret.
| 1t must be confessed, not altogether at
Aractive daughter Ia tho person Of the
YVOul&D IOuI0AlIS6. & sd.
Like other, debutantes, she waa par,che
and angular, shy and autlacious In on.
and painfully in earnest. She looked upon
her profession as vocation and posed as
Minerva on very small allowances Of that
]ady's leading attribute. 4
A's.. How the world laughed at her aud her
newspapers, her inky fingers and mis-.
quoted Iatinl 1t was hard, but the laugh.
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thing which caught fire in her brain and
lighted up hundred possibilities. She
took her poor little uinid ladies' nowspa.
Jnaise or recovering a sick parrot wide tho
woman's page of current dailies1 and Oh.
larged 1t step by stop, broadened it's inter
est, opened it's pages to able writer's and
worldwide questions-made 1t, in fact
what it ID today, power, a pleasure. {,
iatandby in millions of English speaking
households, all over tho world.
; Having created this ladies paper. tie
began, very cautiously, and with The ut
svecklies and dailies.
slaugh ;nowadays to hear Of the strio,
}ncognito which sgas preserved by the lrst
women leader writer's, no less for their
even sake than for the liberal minded and
Adventurous editors who employed them.
.,Bnt We nre, mon and women alike a news.
paper reading nation, and editors have
sbeen quick to discover that women possess
many Journalistic gifts. Conseuuent,
now There Is not q single ppaper Of An,
standing in the United Kingdom ,chioi,
does not count women on lis staff nn,,
which does not rsly'tor much Of its a,omr
and foreign niatttor On women CORRESPOND
ents. go. s:s .59
& omen special writers are sent to the
Solonies and the continent for descriptive;
Mayk, and they eyer note q thousand lit
tie points that escape tho male eye,''
=: Miss Stuart says Of wo,ncn's newspaper
work: 80 a... -
awhile I cunecde that, rs writers. the.
arc neither accurate nor SO impsrtial y
men, claim to: them q dellcacy Of ner
5eeptidn and observation and IN Infinite,
'cnrcPulytcss of execution which give then,
: wonderful mastery over certain Subjects
and appeal warmly to certain minds
With ono or two exceptions, they mak..
poor politicians, beeauss they ;nffs such
grand partissns. Yet the parsatloxicai fact
remains that they gro less aenerally 'breixin
dtcea than their brothers. Paradoxicolly
al,sln, they have: a knack-all their own
.-t,f rt,noncilinGr realism wit n ro,nantycis,r,
-An One 1nannsr: For instance. the realiatle
sspottr details which q man would cataloone
- unix,npyon,ising at1i,1ncts to fnot.s t,f his
easn s BECOME, under n@womnn'a ham,.
!. tl.p trin,Inina-I may be pormittel such nn
sxapression-by which sha ndtis To har
@Jnain statement a loculization. n nersonal
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