The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-19

even harder than the first class to
drive women out. 1t was case of
professional rivalry, and the men were
more aggressive than the women.
Finally the girl reporters were allowed
to remain only in posts that could not
possibly be filed by men. How. for in
stance, could d man plan and technic-
ally describe a baby's wardrobe?
Well, if women could have been
crowded out of journalism, they de-
served to be thus crowded out. But
the girls were not to be downed
Moreover, the woman of today stands
by her own sex, and that is the best
part of the woman movement. A sig
nificant evidence of this corps spirit is
seen in a scheme just inaugurated by
the managers of the Lyceum club, an
international organization of women,
with headquarters in London. The
members of the club are in large pro-
portion authors of books and writers
for newspapers and periodicals. The
executive officers of the Lyceum have
established an international syndicate
for women writer's belonging to the or
ganization. A committee will take
charge of contributions and dispose of
them. The matter mostly wanted is
short, snappy articles" and sketches
of about thousand words. Being in
ternational in it's scope. the syndicate
will cause to be translated into various
European languages the contributions
accepted for publication. The Lyceum
club has branches in several countries.
One branch is to be established in
America next year. The Quickest,
most talented of the women whom it
was attempted to crowd off the band
wagon of general journalism in many
obi
their own hook. There were one or
two fields of journalism they found to
be not vet overcrowded. One of these
was that of the trade paper. Some
obtained work on trade periodicals al
ready established, while others bravely
founded and successfully conducted
trade periodicals of their own In New
York Mrs Ada Crisp. clear headed
woman and facile writer, is at the head
of a new periodical in the interests of
the grocers' trade. There, too, Miss
Florence Levy publishes a fiourishing
art annual which she herself founded.
Miss Levy, besides being an editor and
publisher is also art critic and
lecturer.
The weekly society paper is another
! enterprise women have taken hold of
| and developed into something infinitely
broaded, higher and more useful than
apparently cOulQ nave Deen DullC on the
| foundation Here woman is unrivaled
In numerous instances ladies holding
well paid places on the staff of a daily
newspaper resigned to become editors
and proprietors of the SO called society
| journal
In each of several American cities
| there is already such a transformed
| society journal, and a woman is at the
head of it. A notable example is a
| paper conducted by Mrs. Henry B.
| Birch in Pittsburg. It is a handsome
| publication, and its editorial notes are
full of woman's own wit and wisdom.
Says one of these notes:
There is more truth than poetry in
certain printed placards which hang in
the workshop department of an east
end garage and which tersely read:
Keep Alive"
Another: eff you live in a town
where anything is epidemic, keep cool
and don't imagine you have caught it,
Notably neat and handsome are the
society periodicals edited by women.
| Mrs. Birch herself reads every line of
her paper before it is published. 1t
| covers local topics of vital interest to