Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01

has prevailed here all the week. Typical
London June days, every one OF them,
will a shower now and a smiling Sky the
next minute. Neither showers nor smiles
have deferred or deceived the 10000 repre-
sentative women who are gathered here
from all over the world to observe the
quinquennial of the international council
of women. The estimated number of
women present is only a fraction of the
real number for every London dame has
a house full of friends, and hundreds
come IN every day for special lectures:
The object Of it all is similar to the
work of wonan' week of the world S
fair. An idea is given of women's prog
ress in the world, and representative wo-
men of India and of America. of London
and of France have an opportunity to
shake hands with others who are inter-
ested in the same subjects.
The United States brought out her rep
resentative woman journalist today in
Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden, who came
as a delegate from all the press clubs of
her country. She read a paper upon
THE Economic Position of Women in
Journalism" and was listened to with
attention second only to that accorded TO
the venerable Susan 3. Anthony last
Tuesday. The paper dealt more with wo-
mans real deeds than her possibilities.
Mrs. Alden, whose husband, John, is one
of the original Priscilla Alden family, has
a wonderful history. Born in Iowa, she
spent utI CuiIuitcou iii So!pIduo IuIiliiIS
camps with her father. who was state
mineralogist. For years she did not see a
woman. In this outdoor life she ac-
quired such a wonderful store of health
that she has never had a doctor.
Mrs. Alden is a good looking woman
with what. the Westerners call pluck
and the Yankees call "a faculty" She
has a way of just doing things" For
example, she cultivated her voice, while
out of employment one year. until she
was able to be a soloist in the Metropolis
tan opera house. New York. firing of
singing. she turned her attention to the
civil service lists and was soon appointed
interpreter at the immigration office by
the mayo of New York city. Then. after
other wonderful deeds. including the
classification OF minerals in the Mus am
of Art in Central park. she drifted into
journalism, and having feund her most
Congenlal occupation, speedily climbed to
the top Of the ladder She occupies among
other fine POSITIONS, that of woman editor
of the New York Tribune
Mrs. Alden's paper, which will surely
he of interest to every person interested
in woman in Journalism, was read this
afternoon at o:30 in st. Martins hall. 1t
was as follows:
THE Economic Position Of Women as
Journalists" is a topic that requires a
little preliminary definition. Journalism
is work for a journal, and a journal is
q l'ei III lsSuEl tttn utE.
I think we in America are more inclined
to restrict the word to its exact meaning
than Continental or British writer's and
speakers. But for the purposes Of this
paper | shall treat the term "j0urnal' as
including all periodicals, daily, weekly
and monthly.
Work for such periodicals in the United
States furnishes a broader field for wo-
man, which she is cultivatirg more and
more enerSetlcally every year. And of
much Journalistic writing, it may be said
in the words of George Eliot, that "a
certain amount of psychological differ
ence between man and woman neces-
sarily arises out of the difference Of sex.
and instead of being destined to vanish
before a complete development of wo-
mans intellectual and moral nature, it
Will be a permanent source of variety
and beauty as long as thu tender light
and deWy freshness of morning affect us
differently from the strength and brill
liancy of the monday sun" BY the way,
some of George Eliot's deepest philoso-
ply appears in matter printed in the
Westminster Review and other periodi-
Gals, though the critic reading this matter
may often doubt whether it emits more
of the tender light and deWy freshness of
morning or Of the strength and brilliancy
Of the MONDAY sun
We have had woman proprietors Of
dailies, like the late Mrs. Nicholson of
tiI Z I l. lNdS ulLt WIN IoI many
years was her own editor: woman pro-
prietors of weeklies, like Mrs. Davidson
of the Criterion, and Mrs. Blackwell of
the Woman's Journal; woman proprietors
OF monthlies, like Mrs. Leslie of Frank
Ieslie's Monthly: Miss Winslow Of the
Clubwoman: Miss Griswold of Profitable
Advertising, in Boston. Scattered all
over our country are village weeklies
owned and managed by women. The
New York Journal is popularity under
stood to owe the nerve behind its enter
prise in a large measure to the widow of
Senator Hearst. who is deeply interested
with her son in both the Journal and the
San Francisco Examiner
The American woman has. indeed,
shown marked capacity in running peri
odicals in popular fashion, as we'll as in
securing for them the advertisements
without which they would lose money
ard eventually fail. I don't think there
is a newspaper in America that keeps
closer in touch with its readers than the
Ticayune did under Mrs. Nicholson, and
/ doubt whethere a man has any adyan-
tage over a woman IN guessing at public
sentiment and taking the course that
will be most likely to secure practical
SUCCESS. AS Nine. BlrOtteau expressed
1t: Nous avons un instinct qui ne nous
trompe pas, nous autres femmes..'
Our inheritance la ws make no distinc-
ton between sons and daughters, and a
prosperous journalistic property is there
fore as likely to pass into the hands of a
woman as into the hands Of a man by in
heritance. When the woman so favored
by fortune has energy and capacity, she
appreciates the field thus opened 10 her,
and is loath to let it pass into the un-
supervised control of hirelings.
1t will be noted that | am speaking here
only of the practical Journalism of Amer
1ca, which does not attempt to mould,
but is satisfied to be the exponent and
the follower of public sentiment. Scores