The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-07-26
THE.
NEW
WOMAN
ELIZA
ARchaRo
CONNER


is a publication for ladies" says he
wrote to 80 women, several being jour
nalistS, and to so men editors asking
the said women and the said men edi-
tors whether they would be willing to
have their daughters get employment
as steady workers in a newspaper Of
fee. He tells us that nearly all the an
swers were No" One Of the men edi-
tors cried with almost hysterical vehe-
mence, "a thousand times nor What
was the reason? The principal one ap-
peared to be that newspaper office in
fuences were demoralizing and degrad-
ing. Some of the writers declared that
in Journalism women would lose that
''intangible something which is the
sex's charm. l may say that for 20
years | have been trying to find out
what that ''intangibIe something" is
that we have heard so much Of. have
never yet succeeded. l have given it
up at last. But it is a lamentable COM
ment on the state Of their own Offices
and the kind of newspapers they pub
lish when men editors declare these
would be demoralizing to a pure mind
ed young woman. 1t Is high time they
were reforming themselves, their of
fees and their Journals. AS a woman
whose life from girlhoOd has been
spent in newspaper work, most of it in
offices, | wish to put on record that
there is no field of labor more promis-
ing or more desirable for earnest young
women with a gift for writing than
that Of Journalism. have found news
paper men uniformly courteous, re-
spectful and helpful Newspaper men
are not monsters. a refined, sensible
girl, free from that deplorable sex self
consciousness which q false education
fosters, may safely set her feet in the
highway of journalism and tread it to
success.
A woman who by hard work and
capability earns her place in any trade
or profession is entitled to that place,
no matter who objects.
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1t is a satisfaction to note q success
in cooperative housekeeping, at least
so far as the experiment has gone. A
lady writing in a magazine under the
heading ITO Simplify Daily Living"
reports the happy progress made by the
LOngwood Cooperative Cooking asso-
citation near Chicago. The association
has one kitchen instead Of dozen and
takes from the individual housekeeper
hn nd CIV IN
separate cooking establishment. 1t has
been found that the expense Of the CO.
operative plan is less than that Of indi-
vidual kitchen keeping.
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Not from coeducational institutions
come the tales Of cruel and inhuman
college hazing with which our minds
have lately been narrowed up. Have
you noted that? The hazing is prac-
t1ced in schools for young men alone.
West Point and Annapolis are in
stances. 1t was at Yale recently that
the revolving farce Of a mock murder
trial in the Jennie Bosschieter case was
enacted. 1t does not seem as If young
men who could participate in such an
outrage on common decency could ever
have had any sisters, or, indeed, that
they are possessed Of much human
feeling. That they belong to the Yale
senior class makes the affair yet more
abhorrent. The toughs appear to be de-
veloped in the colleges attended only
by men students.
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The largest apple orchard in the
northwest is owned and managed by a
woman, Mrs. Laura Alderman Of Hur-
ley, S. d. Fruit raising is a good occu-
patton for women.
A considerable number of young wo-
men attorneys Of my acquaintance who
are now in successful practice began as
stenographers in law offices. They
studied their profession while thus
earning their living.
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Says Henry George: 81 have come to
believe that very much Of the inatten-
ton, the fippancy, the want Of con-
science, which we see manifested In
public matters Of the greatest moment
arise from the fact that we debar our
women from taking their proper part
IN these matters. Nothing will fully
interest men unless it also interests
women"
At length New York city Is actually
to have that hotel for women which
has been talked Of for ten years. The
site has been bought; the money to
build it has been arranged for. 1t will
be y stories high and will contain all
modern conveniences, likewise the lux
uries of light, air and plenty of water.
The price of living will be moderate.
The hotel will be boon unspeakable
to women coming alone at night as
strangers into New York. Mankind at
the close Of the twentieth century will
read with establishment that the barba
rlsm Of denying accommodation to lone
women, no matter how respectable,
was habitually practiced by hotel and
restaurant keepers Of New York at the
latter end of the nineteenth century.
FRANKLIN Pierce, Esq, a fiourishing
attorney of New York, was appointed
assistant district attorney. His wife,