The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-24
Personal and Pertinent.

Moueru Anstances, Scott-Tnaw--NeW York.
 Personal and Pertinent. l You don't mean to tell me that you went out as a reporter?" The shocked amazement in the voice
 would have weighed good ten pounds had it been of stun ponderable. 'I did"
 with all your reputation, and posi- tion and genius and -. | "Bah.' Well. tell it. Where did you 20?
 What did you do? What did they say? 1 Why did you do it7" One of the many Southern women workers in New York | had just come in to quarters, Bachelor l Girls Quarters, where a little gathering of us sat comfortably over cups of post prandial coffee. She was drenched to the skin. gloves. we'll. hat, everything in the way of clothes wrecked. Moreover 1t was after | 10 o'clock and she was the one of us who
 would not go out in New York alone. It was always a fox and goose puzzle how to get her home from clubs and things. but puzzle we were all willing to put ourselves to the solving as she could always make any place brighter when she was in 1t. tN "It was so." she said. sitting in all her humidity out on the edge of the chair: T really must go get off these wet things But, first. was at a reception. There were lots of notable there---'' Other notables.''
 "If 1t makes you feel good to say so. But these were anybody but us poor ar tisttc folks. There were first the two great Hockeymeilers-" You don't say!' And K. Cation Putting and well, you'n see 1t all in the papers tomorrow. My friend says to me: Why don't you report this? You want to get regular work on paper. Try it." Does she think you can rcport7" T don't know what she thinks. But I'm for going into every door to work that even cracks open. So stepped up as bold as you please to the hostess and my friend introduced me as reporter from The Hearall and The Toyah" The tunefui liar! I can hear her tones-.'' "Thcn the hostess wanted to hustle me off In a corner where she could give 1t all to me. hut not introduce me to any body-just reporter. you know"
 ''well!'
 T was in for all coming to me 50 I took down the whole thing on e scratch pad and 1t was dark then, but not raining Off started for The HearalI Now you know big newspaper Is really as big and better systematised than the world, For we've meddled with the world since God made 1t. So I went peeping into wire windows to ask: Where is the Society EditorT Gone. If not gone up stars Upstairs went. I want to see the Society Eeditor.' Gone The City Editor. What for?' t,.n
 to me on which wrote in my masculine hand my sirname only and News" Out comes rosy checked boy. Bushes round the railing where I stood, passes by the little woman in grey-thats me till the office boy turns him back and points at me- with Wonder"
 "Oh," says the rosy checked boy.
 "city Editor?" say I.
 "Yes," says he.
 Children. he was a reporter just taken on. but when he heard of the Astorbilts and the Vans and the rest had on my list he knew it was "News," so he took it and 1t goes in tomorrow. and little check comes to me-"
 Why. that's not SO bad"
 Not bad at all. I never yet have found anything or anybody bad or unRentle or unkind in a newspaper office"
 "Oh, you pen people. It's the lovingest Brotherhood, Then I hope you came home. But why did you walk and get so wet?'
 NO. One paper didn't satisfy me. I had News I went down to Newspaper Row"
 Not this time of night!'
 ''I did,
 Then hereafter you can come home from musicales and things by yourself-''
 T went to three papers there. Oh, I can tell you they are busy at night. Some accepted. Some were too crowded to take. It was blowing and the finest. most penetrating rain was drifting every- way by that time and I thought it a ruile across the park to Broadway. and I was actually afraid to go the extra blocks to the elevated and thought the Broadway car would never come, and