The age-herald., 1898-01-14
Meeting of Two Great
 Women's Press Clubs

There will occur within few weeks two conventions, which mean much to the great army of professional literary men.
 The annual meeting of the International League of Press Clubs will be held very soon at New Orleans, and on Feb. Is ana 19. at Washington, D. C., under the aus pices of the Woman's National Press asso- citation, a congress of press women will convene The object of these conventions is to bring women writers together, to cre- ate an esprit de corps among them, and to organize the literary profession as far as possible.
 It Is estimated, from the most reliable data, that there are now more than twenty thousand women writers in America, in cluding in this number editors, publishers, translators and reporters.
 Unfortunately Alabama has not yet or ganized Woman's Press club, and there fore cannot be represented at either of these conventions in an authoritative way.
 In the womans department of the Bir- mingham Times, Mrs. Ella Lowery Nose ley has the following very admirable ar ticle upon the value and importance of a press club to the women of Alabama. She says:
 "A notable gathering will be the conven- tion of American newspaper women, which meets in Washington City Feb. IS and 19 All womens press clubs will send delegates and many press women not connected with clubs will be present, as all such are in- vited. As Alabama has no woman's press club, this will give opportunity to such newspaper women in the state as desire to attend the meeting of the National associa- tion to do so, and to take part in it's exer- cises without embarrassment.
 Each club is requested to name q speaker and send her name and the subject of her paper to the corresponding secretary, Mrs. Mary M. North, Anacostia, D. C., so that she may have a place on the programme, which is now in course of preparation.
 Here is seen that the non-existence of a woman's press club in Alabama is de- cided disadvantage. For while some tal- ented women are marking distinct paths along the fields of Journalism in this state and while among them may be found the peers of women similarly engaged in other states, granted that there shall be a rep resentative of them at the approaching press convention, the lustre that such a might lend to her brainy sisters at home, borrow from them as the case might be, would be greatly diminished sv7 want of the strength that comes with union.
 Miss x, delegate from the Alabama Wo- mans Press club, would certainly obtain more prestige in a convocation of press women than would merely Miss x. of the Cross Roads Herald, of County Anywhere and she would at the same time proclaim by her presence without saying a word herself. that there are newspaper women in Alabama, and that they are not behind the times. She might shine altogether by this reflected light, but to shine by the light of ones country side is always an undoubted and sufficient honor, which not unusually falls on the worthy. And the Alabama Woman's Press club would have no difficulty in finding such one among its members
 The opportunities of mental and social value which would come to the members of such a club, outside of that of representa- tion in national organizations cited above, are obvious on slight examination of the subject When one thinks deeply on it, the wonder grows the pencil-pushing sister, hood have not seen the advantages of form ing themselves into band for mutual help, and that the Alabama Woman's Press club Is only a dream of the Times Wo- mans department