The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-10

failing to comprehend that wide ex.
perience Of life and maturity of thought
as well as omnivorouS reading must
fit one for the office of critic falling
also to understand that they are ask
ing for dessert before they have even
tasted the soup. The girl who Is in
dead earnest WILL so to speak, lay aside
all desire for ease and at once accept
any offered assignment, going where
she Is sent, doing as she is hidden, be-
having precisely like soldier on duty.
and taking whatever space rates her
paper pays with a grateful heart
By degrees the young woman who is
always on time, whose work is clean
and intelligent, not slovenly and con-
fused, and who has an ear and an eye
for whatever Is interesting, will win
her way. In these Gays the news. for
eign or domestic. is gathered accord
ing to organized s3's en-. and the young
reporter must rather write charming
and clever paragraphs about people and
incidents than be on the watch for hap
penings outside her sphere of service.
woman needs firm stock of health
If she is to be journalist. For she
may have late hours and long ones, and
she must work hard and encounter
every sort of weather In the calendar.
She must possess common sense and
dress properly for her work A short
skirt, thick boots, trim small hat, a
business dress as well as a business ali,
are requisites of the newspaper wo
mans outfit. Feathers and picture hats
and tags and fripperies are out Of place
for her.
She will do well to have a speciality
II she wishes to becolle known and
trusted. There are advantages in being
identified with certain line, so that
when the editor wants clubs or con-
ventions or woman's congresses writ
ten up he can turn at once to a woman
who has the especial movement at her
fingers ends
II young woman selects fashion or
society as her speciality she must he
careful to do no sloppy work; clear-cut
thorough and trustworthy information
is wanted She must be honorable. A
young journalist can succeed without
becoming spy or doing anything Of
which she ought to be ashamed.
The positions open for successful wo-
men journalists are, as rule. depart-
mental. No woman has ever assumed
the exclusive charge as editor-in-chief
OF great daily newspaper She might
as well aspire to be rear admiral or a
major general. When she assumes the
oversight of department, even though
u be woman's department, she will .
una herself somewhat handicapned nv
the Iact that women's departments, in
newspapers are seldom the expression
Of feminine ideas,
Men, the publishers, the managing
editors and the others in authoritv
fancy they know what women wish to
rsad, and they insist on having their
IDEAS carried out. That is whv 80
many women find the woman's mart of
heir paper rather unsatisfactory.
A girl often does well to have an ALI. A
'ound training on country paper he.
ore she comes to town. She must NOT
'ome to town without a little money -
" people in the background ready 70
lelp her. Space rates are small. One v
las to walk many miles and write n
many words to make board and lodyins o
n these. Fifteen. twenty, twenfvsfivs p
II fifty dollars covers the avera % II
weekly earnings OF a successful wan,en
journalist. The woman editor Ivhn II
makes more than fifty dollars veeltis, q
} rare, though there are excentions bl
fhQse salaries range from sixty ii ona re
undred dollars a week. e D'
No profession is more exactine ~ "
one is more fascinating; and A. No. re
mo love 1t journalism offers q e ,-eeft nc
nd alluring Ops tnity TO do that ~
ihich every good woman sho,,id az a
{, namely, TO serve the present are ''N =: ~