The herald., 1897-03-10
Third Annual Convention of the
WOman's Press Club
MANY INTERESTING PAPERS
Read BY Active Ladies Who Adorn the
Fourth Estate
Reporter HAS Made Her q Necessity
to the Newspaper


club held its first days session yester-
day in the Y. NJ. c. A. auditorium.
The morning meeting, open to mem
bers only, was called to order to Mrs.
Sweet of Pomona, in the absence from
illness of the president, Mrs. George d.
Ruddy.
After the usual business routine and
annual reports of officers the club pro-
ceeded to the election of officers for the
coming year, with the following result:
President, Mrs. Mary NJ. Bowman;
first vice-presldent. Mrs. Clara Spalding
Brown; second vice-presideut, Mrs. S.
e. A. Higgins, Santa Barbara; record
ing secretary, Miss Hattie Elliott; COR
responding secretary, Mrs. M. Burton
Williamson; treasurer, Mrs ]. Torrey
Connor: librarian, Mrs. George D. Rud-
dy; historian, Mrs. L. O. Torrey execu-
tive committee, Mrs. S. A. Bowman,
Mrs. Susie Sweet. with one additional
member to be supplied.
good-sized audience was present
when the meeting was called to order
in the afternoon. The stage was very
tastefully decorated with a quantity and
variety of palms. ferns and beautiful
ornamental plants loaned by the Blys-
ian gardens at $40 South Broadway.
The first paper of the afternoon.
Woman in Journalism" was written
Emma S. Marshall, now OF Oakland,
and read by Mrs. E. A. Wore.
Time was, said the writer, when
women were considered out of place IN
journalism and among some OF the male
members of the profession there is not
a very liberal spirit manifested toward
her even at this late day. 1t has come
to be generally acknowledged, however,
that not only is the newspaper neces-
sity of the woman writer in earning a
livelihood, but that she is necessity to
the newspaper Men have been edu-
Gated in the work for many genera
tiona, buTta womeni 1t is comparatively
new occupation. Instances were
given of the woman reporters persis-
tence In obtaining news in the face of
obstacles, of her aptitude in lines usually
supposed to belong exclusively to men,
such as mining news, horse shows, etc.
To be successful in newspaper work,
women like men, must have a natural
aptitude for 1t. Sometimes she walks
up ~ q PositloH anu tohCo II, put ilOi c
often she haunts newspaper offices until
she finally obtains an opportunity and
il her work gives satisfaction, is re-
tanned
The paper was written from the stand
point of years of personal experience in
many lines of practical newspaper work,
from the case to the EDITORS chair.
How Can Women Writers Help
Women" by Mrs. s. E. Mum, associate
I'D af ha Co Tn nj oicta 9
a paper containing many practical sug-
gestions and valua BILE hints. The speaker
Justly censured the woman writer who
takes advantage Of her command of the
newspaper column to ridicule move
ments for the advancement of her sex,
forgetting that Miss Anthony and other
pioneer leaders have made it possible
for the newspaper woman of today to
pursue her vocation.
paper written by Mrs. Ella M. Sexton
Of San Francisco. entitled, Space Work
In Newspapers Six days in the week
the newspaper reader glanced hurriedly
at the headlines and telegraph news;
said the writer, therefore it is
the blanket sheeted Sunday paper
that the space writers must
publication of a signed article will buoy
the space writer up for weeks In a
large city the space writer finds her wild
est field and best market. The foreign
population furnish material, odd GUS
toms of the various nationalities, are
a fruitful theme and even graphic de-
scription of the mysteries of the tamale
have been known to furnish fame for a
space filler. Syndicate matter is the
fee Of the home writer and the poet has
row to depend on writing advertising
jingles for soap and bicycles, to buy
his bread and butter.
Mrs. Rose Thorpe Hartwick contrib
uted a poem which was read by Miss
Elliott.
A beautiful lullaby, words by Mrs.
Torrey Connor, music by Miss Nell Con-
nor, was sung by Miss Delphine Todd
Hiss Todd's lovely voice filled the room
with melody and gave both words and
music their best Interpretation. The
vocalist was loudly applauded in that
and another ballad was sung later in the
program, and was presented with a
bouquet of roses.
California Poets" paper by noted
writer Of San Francisco, was read by
Miss Lillian Whelpley.
1t was comprehensive and appre-
ciative view of old and new poets of the
state, with whom the writer has been
for many years associated. Her liter
ary life was contemporary with Harte,
Morrow, Stoddard' and other well-known
names of old California days. The pa
per contained appreciative words for
later writers of the south, with selec-
tions from the work of each one named,
as we'll as the better known pen women
of the north.
Mrs. Rebecca Spring read an inter-
esting paper on art and Artists" Mrs.
Springs anecdotes and "reminiscences
are always of value, having been
cleaned from her personal acquaintance
with many famous persons in the past
three-quarters of a century. Her pa
per was interspersed with short recita-
tions of poems, in which she never seems
to reach the limit of remarka bly, re-
tentive memory.
The last paper of the afternoon was
that of Mrs Ella H. Enderlein, enti-
tied Symbolism in Literature" Mrs.
Enderlein touched on the rise of the
French school of symbolists, their atti-
tude being the result of the political and
sociological conditions in France which
has given them the name of decadents.
Maurice Berreo, Paul Verlaine were
touched upon. The attractive literary
quality of their writings; their alfuring
attempts to seize the color and perfuna
of words; their repetition of the creed
of some of the well-known writer's Of
the aphaelite school were some Of
the points made. Selections were read
from some of the symbolist dramas of
Maurice Maeterlinck.
The closing literary session of the
convention will be held to-day at 2
p M, to WHICH the public is invited.