The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-27

ing election VIII apply 10 almost ANY
! other city: If every citizen will exert
himself now for the moral and material
salvation of the city and separate from
partisan politics, the selection Of men
who are to collect and disburse the PEG
pies money, the coming election will
| herald the dawn of a new and hopeful
era in our municipal history.
Now while we are not among those
citizens to whom is accorded power to
| select these counsellors. wise or other
| wise, we may and can exert ourselves for
| the aforesaid moral and material saliva
ton of the city. We have always known
| woman's power in the home, where she
is advisor, instructor. nurse, housekeep-
| err. cook or maid Of all work, and bread
winner, too, If needs be. and now we ind
her evideneing no less ability as cleaner
of our municipal households.
"In entering upon this work, however,
| it is very important that she employ tact
and proceed with caution. She U CO.
| operate with the city officials, not antag-
| onize them. Never mind h or what
our city officials may be, If It is not IN
our power to remove them. Once admit
ted into the austere presence OF the city
fathers, TASK what you will and il viii
be granted you" You will ask for clean
| sreets, and il necessary an extra appro-
priation will be made at your request.
Eve must renew our efforts for the en-
forcement Of the ordinance respecting ex-
pectoration in public places. We must
interest more children in our work. Our
children's auxiliaries are falling on. we
are greatly encouraged by last years sue
cess. Our way Is clear before US
Following this was q report on the
Consumers League" a society Tor the
protection OF labor especially In the case
Of factory girls. by Mrs. A. G. WAL
mough. This league is enrolling mem
bers. exacts a pledge that they viii Duy
none but articles marked with the League
stamp, which in itself 10 q guarantee that
the work has been done by competent and
properly paid laborers in a properly in
spected factory.
This closed the morning session and the
ladies adjourned for luncheon.
AFTERNOON.
The afternoon session opened with q
number of reports on various commit
tee conferences and a vocal solo by Mr..
ohm s.. Ingram. One Of the features was
the address of Mrs. Cynthia Westover Al
den, Of the New York Tribune" on
Women and Newspapers"
women are just beginning to compre-
hend the newspapers" said Mrs. Alden,
and the newspaper Is just beginning
to comprehend women. 1t used to be said
that when a woman looked at a daily
paper, she read just the marriage notices,
second, the obituary notices, third, the
dry goods bargains, and then laid the
sheet down, feeling that she had xnaust
ed the treasures in the way of instruction
and entertainment. We, the Woman's
Clubs. have changed all that. The news
of a great strike in Brooklyn. of a famine
In India, of a new battle In Luzon, of
a yellow fever outbreak in Havana, Of
a war IN South Africa, of a murder half
a dozen blocks from where we live. in
~terests women as much az men,; and ]
am inclined to believe that we club
women read the news of the day even
more thoroughly than our husbands and
fathers and brothers. They are altogether
too much given to depending on the head
lines which often give an imperfect con-
ception of the stories told In news arti-
Giles.
w AdI has udRpciCQ dAt AA6 Lac HNHS
four hours since the last issue went
to press is the daily newspapers
multiform text. All that has hap
pened cannot be told. The editor
must decide what is of the greatest
interest to the greatest number. II his
Judgment Is mistaken. he is a bad editor,
his paper will be insipid, and eventually
he will lose his job. To those who COM
plain of the 'y~ellowness' of popular news
papers there Is only one answer. Educate
popular taste up to the point Of preferring
a Philadelphia Ledger, a Brooklyn Eagle,
a Boston Journal to a New York Journal
or a Cincinnati Enquirer. and nothing but
dignifed newspapers will be profitable.
At present the yellow papers are popular
favorites, and particularly popular favor
ties with women, because their embellish-
ments of cold facts appeal especially to
the demand for the dramatic that exists
in every woman's nature"
"Al1 newspapers, however, seek to find
out the truth. Fiction is the exception,
and falls the rule in the 'yellowest' OF
them all. 1t is, therefore, the part of
wisdom for a woman's club to facilitate
the work of the press in reporting its
activities. You have a right to be proud
of what you are doing. Why seek to
conceal 1t? OF all posing, the public ex-
hibition Of retiring modesty Is the most
amusing. That is what Mr.. Gilbert
satirized In the two daughters Of the
King Of Utopia, who had been educated
by a real English lady, and had TO ex-
hibit themselves in the public market
place four hours every day as models of
maidenly modesty for the other utopian
girls, singing the whiie:-
"sAal maids of high and low degree,
Whose social code is rather tree,
Pray look at US, and you Will see
What good young ladies ought to be.
IT must say thai the Utopian prineesses
are recalled to my mind whenever I hear
of a woman's club making an advertise
ment out OF its alleged disinclinatfon for
newspaper publicity. I say alleged disin-
~clination' advisedly; for experience has
taught me that there are few men and
fewer women who DO not enjoy seeing
their names in print. associated with
creditable undertaking or activity.
Frankly. l think it is a good thing for
the newspaper hat 1t is giving more at
tention to woman, and a good thing for
woman that she is giving more and more
attention to the newspaper. Biography
and history are instructive; romance and
poetry are elevating, and the material for
all four exists in any issue OF any daily