The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-08
NEWSPAPER WOMEN.
Kansas Women's Press Association
Meeting and Banquet

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The attendance at the meeting of the
Kansas Woman's Press association at
Royal Areanum hall Thursday after
noon was not so large might have
been desired, but those who were pres
ent were so enthusiastic that they
were an incentive to the speakers to do
their best.
The meeting was presided over by
Mrs. Olive L Royce, the president. Mrs
Royce's manner is so genial and charm
ing that she puts everyone at ease.
She opened the meeting with The
Presidents Message" making haste to
explain that it was not the message
that the anxious public has been look
ing for in vain The paper was full of
quiet wit and humor, and the good ad-
vice and common sense it contained was
put so pleasantly that everyone was
sure that it was just exactly what they
thought.
Mrs. Lena Elder Fuller of the Ottawa
Times, who has seen a long and active
service in the newspaper field read an
excellent paper on THE Weekly News
paper as an Educator" She says in
part: "A culver of great anxiety passes
over us as we stop and look beyond,
wondering what will be evolved in the
next span of years already begun.
THE central idea and trend of
thought the past quarter of a century
has been TO 'agitate and educate until
the progressive mind has become fever
ish and congested- Politics, religion,
science and domestic economy as we'll
as the DDlIOSODnY OF llI6 ana living nave
been talked from the platform and pull
pit, delineated through the maze of the
drama and sung in poesy and song.
The spirit of agitation came to cure
us of inertia, which was rapidly Swal-
lowing the best thoughts that education
and progress could develop. Education
must be the capStOne and central arch
that will support the pillars Of knowl-
edge we are building from day to day
through all the avenues of life.
/ have read that the United States
is the paradise of newspapers if rank
and rapid growth indicate a paradise.
The people of America are the most
intelligent and progressive people on
earth The poorer classes should ask
blessing upon the printers ink every
day of their lives because newspapers
are sold within the reach of all. A pen
ny will purchase papers where dollars
are required for books. It will not be
denied and almost universally conceded
that the farmers and labOrers of our
states are the best informed and most
thoroughly educated on the three great
public questions of today: Money, its
power and functions, bankruptcy and
transportation. And it is largely due
to their constant reading and great IA
gaiiiarity with the weekly newspapers.
"A definition of Spencer so fully il
1ustrates my thoughts that I quote:
The general problem which compre-
hends every special is the right ruling
OF conduct in all directions and under
all circumstances. In what way to
treat the body, in what way to treat the
mind, in what way to manage our af-
fairs, in what way to bring up fam
lily, in what way to behave as a citizen;
these and many more are the great
things education has to teach. Can it
be taught in the school room, in the
street or in the home? All these meth
DDS have their advocates, yet all these
attributes are strengthened by the as
sistance of the editor of the newspa-
per-
Miss Florence HeadIey of the Cay
n n lV-Tcr ~
re er on THE Country Newspaper Of
flee" Miss Headley, who is one of the
youngest members of the association
has done much practical newspaper
work and if our prophesies are correct
it will not be a great while before we
hear of her in a broader field than a
Country Newspaper Office" though
judging from her descriptions the
Country Newspaper Office must have
Its attractions.
Another bright and ambitious young
woman is Miss Ida G. Frow of the
Ottawa Republican. Her paper 1.-The
Evolution of the Newspaper Woman
could not help re-arousing the wavering
faith of any discouraged newspaper wo-
man The following is an extract from
her paper:
And of all the vocations which dur
ing the last so years have let down
their bars to womankind. none has Of
fered a more attractive field than that
of journalism.
1t is most interesting forobvious rea-
sons, to follow the evolution of the
newspaper woman as she has developed
on American soil. The American press
yields to none in it's excellence and gen.