The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-02-01

etor. The advertisers, especially
those having women's apparel and be-
longings for sale, soon grow to know
and patronize the paper in accordance
with its social rating.
There is literally at the present time
no department OF newspaper work
in which women have not practically
exemplified the fact that they stand
equal with men as reporters. AS war
correspondents, for nerve and accu-
racy they made enviable records in
! the Spanish-American and South AT
rican wars. But 1t Is as an inter
viewer that the woman newspaper
writer Is beginning to excel. In this
| lies her unquestioned success. II is
here that a natural patience stands
| her friend in the hour of need. 1t Is
here also that her intuition serves
her well.
The average woman does not un.
derstand politics. Possibly the rea-
son for this may lie in the fact that
UP to the present time she has taken
| little active part in the workings OF
the great machine which turns some
presidents in and others out of the
White House. But this does not mil
| itate against her availability and
| strength as an interviewer because a
woman more naturally than a man
carries out instructions. When de-
tailed to some important work of this
nature she Is quick to add to her
current knowledge such specific in
formation as is essential in the case
She rarely returns empty-handed
from an assignment, and the newspa-
per woman of standing is recognized
Cor accuracy of detail.
If | were asked the most important
essential to success in a newspaper
writer would reply tact" and again
tact" There are other essentials,
of course, and among these, in addi-
ton to a good memory, which is nat
urally strengthened by the severe
training is to be enumerated an in.
stinct for news. This means not only
to keep abreast of the doings of the
hour, but to know at hearing or
glance a really good thing when one
comes across it, to seize upon and
use it forthwith, yet never under any
circumstances to be led into the fatal
perfidy of playing traitor Another
essential is not only TO be equal to
emergencies but to cultivate the fac
ulty of deciding quickly and wisely.
This last is by no means easy even
TO veteran writer.
Interspersed with the hard work are
bright bits of happiness along the way.
There are many compensations for
the life of self-abnegation in the
stanch, elevating friendships with PEG.
ple who otherwise would not have
been met by the newspaper writer
save in the discharge OF duty-friend-
ships in which shop is forgotten. in
which the real woman is recognized
plane on which a clever woman will
allow it TO be met
The question of equal pay for equal
work is perhaps less agitated in news
paper Offices than elsewhere in pgr.
suits where women come in active
competition with men.
The outlook is decidedly encourag-
|
one with a perfectly normal way OF
looking at life and things generally;
who, wishing to support herself, has
yet no capital other than brains and
energy TO invest, i would decidedly
recommend newspaper writing. There
is no appreciate danger of the ranks
being overcrowded, for the artless
/ H. l.. al.
soon becomes aware that she has un-
dertaken no child's play, but is act.
ually engaged in the hardest work
of which the strongest, most deter
mined natures can be capable. Such
| being the case, the result is inev-
itably the survival of the fittest. 1t
| is field in which idlers and drones
will not be tolerated, but in which
there is plenty of room for the earn
est women of the land.
What gift of prophecy but would
have been flouted TO scorn in the pio
neer days of women newspaper
writer's had the assertion been ven.
tured that the close OF the nineteenth
century would have witnessed the
spectacle of women writer's in charge
OF departments OF the leading news
papers and magazines of the coun.
try! Yet now even the most preju.
diced OF observant persons must real
lie that before the twentieth cen.
fury reaches its zenith there will be
not one but many clever women I'LL.
ing with honor the positions of city
and managing editors of great metro
molitan dailies.
Puzzle Of the Marine Barracks.
Among the interested visitors at the
marine barracks at Washington on