The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-10

Woman's Edition of the Winston Salem
Journal for the Twin City Hospital It is
full of good things of all sorts-reminds
you of a gracious host who provides Just
enough of everything that appeals to the
appetite, and has it served temptingly.
An editor who Is good one must be
4 more or less of caterer He must pre-
! pare and set before his readers all sorts
of viands to suit every palate. In the
good old times when Seaton and Gales
made The Intelligencer the political in
structor of a great party, it was common
to fill whole page with an able disserta-
ton on politics or history. Let the editor
of 1904 try that and soon he will find that
he is like Othello. The popular paper is
the one that along with sound doctrine,
prints something that will appeal to all
sorts and conditions of men and women,
particularly the women.
The Woman's Edition of the Winston
Salem Journal is full of good things. Some
of them are printed elsewhere. Here is
the staff: Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, Edi-
tor in chief; Miss Clayton Gambler, Assist
ant Editor; Mrs. VIM. Reynolds, Circula-
ton Manager; Mrs. A. H. Galloway, So
cicty Editor; Mrs. Mary F. Patterson,
Business Manager; Mrs. James A Gray,
Mrs. E. A. Ebert, Mrs. Michel Rogers,
Assistant Business Managers galaxy of
newspaper workers who would adorn the
staff of any journal. 1t is observed that
these women eschew the editorial I'VE"
and say ~. AS a matter of fact male
editors are dropping the 1--WE" and making
editorial utterances more impersonal.
There is something in the a. particular
ly when used in local story that makes
you feel like the writer is sitting down
for personal chat and SO sometimes the
| 'I' is used in this paper in important
local stories. 1t is provincial, but then
the great city papers are not the ones
that are read with deepest interest. 1t
is the provincial paper" that tells most
of truth and prints the things you most
wish to read. If these Winston-Salem
women go into. journalism regularly, will
the 'I' take the pace of we all the
timer"
The editorial pages are not dry or
formal or stilted. They are full of fresh
and original matter and the views are as
frank and refreshing as a candid woman.
Here are some samples:
| My pet want 10 q Professional Sympa-
thizer, who for so cents or 81, according
to the exigencies of the case, will sympa-
thize with what really troubles me, not
with what ought to, and doesn't at all.
In common Christian charity one can't
call on ones own family. They have
troubles of their own, being compelled,
willy, nilly, to live with one for 60 or 70
years, and that dry so, calls for consid-
cradle nerve wear and tear, even if one is
a member of the Presbyterian church in
good and regular standing. Profession
al Sympathizer is badly needed, and by
nobility and gentry.
81 want to live five hundred years and
own the Congressional Library and read
all the books except the historical novels
and Henry James tales; and when that
is done, it would be fine to be happy
ghost and fit around the earth for an
other hundred years, enjoying it all with
earthly intelligence but without earthly
fatigue"
'When I met Governor Montague I
was mighty glad We had Governor Ay-
cock.
'North Carolina also needs to be as
conscious Of the short comings of other
States as she is of her own. 1t is right
and proper to read de TocQueville and
nitrate over Connecticut passing coma
pulsory educational law in 1916. tits also
profitable to read other books about the
glorious Nutmeg State and learn that
year or so later she passed another law
making witchcraft punishable by death
and that both laws were rigidly enforced.
1.-The only respite from ''Zaceheus he,
Did climb tree that the Juvenile
Nutmeggers enjoyed, was when their par
ents took them to witch burning.
Compare North Cardinals kindly
'Black Code under which even her
slaves lived and prospered, with the
harsh blue Laws of New England, that
made life a burden to saint and sinner
Il know all these legends about the de-
votion and piety and heroism and gener-
al combination of earthly Virtues of the
Puritans and 1 don't believe syllable of
i them-not a single syllable. When you
want to find out what a mans character
is, you don't ask him, you ask his neigh
| bors. tIHt eQ,
"Who wrote all these glowing eulogies
of the Puritans? The Puritans them
selves, bless their modest hearts.
| luSIG MlSuC nave DetH Inherent re-
cord if the Indians and Quakers and
Catholics and agreeable people generally
hadn't been so busy taking to the tall
timber to escape the stocks, and branding
iron, and whipping post and stake
I'm choosing favorite quotations, no one
seems to have thought of the most beauti-
full tribute to woman that Shakespeare
ever paid:
"Those about her
From her shall learn the perfect ways of
honor
'Isn't that fne?''
These excerpts will whet the appetite
for more. We make motion that Mrs
Patterson and her associates give us a
weekly edition.
THE BROOK FARM.
The history of the Brook Farm or any
thing connected with it, possesses a deep
interest, for it was the unsuccessful at
tempt of small company of the choicest