Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-01-03

failing to comprehend that a wide ex-
perience of life and maturity OF thought
as well as omnivorous aiding must
fit one for the Office of critic; failing
also to understand that they are ask
ing for dessert before they have ever
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 a soldier on duty,
and taking whatever space rates her
paper pays with a grateful heart.
By degrees the young woman Whe is
always on time, whose work Is clean
and Intelligent, not s1Ovenly and con-
fused, and who has an ear and an eye
for whatever is interesting, will wiz
her way. In these days the news. for
eign or domestic, is gathered accord
ing to organized system, 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.
A woman needs a firm stock of health
if she is to be a 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, a trim small hat, a
business dress as we'll as a business air
are requisites of the 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
if she wishes to become known and
trusted. There are advantages in being
identified with a certain line, so that
when the editor wants clubs or con-
yentions or woman's congresses writ
ten up he can turn at once to a woman
who has the especial movement at her
fingers ends.
If a young woman selects fashion or
! cnoiatv aS her SnaCi91tV she mist be
careful to do no sloppy work; c1ear-cut,
thorough and trustworthy
is wanted. She must be honorable. A
young Journalist can succeed Without
becoming a spy or doing anything OF
which she ought to be ashamed.
! The positions open for successful Wo-
men journalists are, as a rule, depart
mental. No woman has ever assumed
the exclusive charge as editor-in-chie
of a great daily newspaper. She might
as we'll aspire to be a rear admiral or q
major-general. When she assumes the
oversight of a department, even though
it be a woman's department., she viii
find herself somewhat handicapped by
the fact that women's departments il
are seldom the expression
of feminine ideas.
Men, <the publishers, the managing
editors and the others in authority
fancy they know what women wish t
read, and they insist on having thei
ideas carried out. That is why 81
many women find the woman's part o
their paper rather unsatisfactory
!. A girl often does well to have an all
round training on a country paper be
fore she comes to town. She must no
5 come to town without a little none,
} or people in the. background ready t
:, help her. Space rates are small On
l has to walk many miles and writ
$ many words to make board and lodgin
Z on these. Fifteen, twenty, tWenty-fv
or fifty dollars covers the averag
. weekly earnings of a successful wona
Journalist The woman editor VIII
I makes more than fifty dollars week.
: is rare, though there are exception
i whose salaries range from sixty to OF
hundred dollars a week.
e NO profession is more exacting, We
: none is more fascinating; and to thos
who love it journalism offers a. grea
E and alluring opportunity to do tha
q which every good woman should ali
at. namely, to serve the present age.