The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-11

from the effects of this work, while
the number of physical wrecks among
the men Is wholly out of proportion.
This, be it understood, where the
work and hours are identical.
1t sounds at first paradoxical to say
that the life of newspaper writer
Is one Of incessant repression and
continued development. The tre-
mendous rush of competition, the be-
ing in active touch with the great
and small events Of daily life, the
knowledge that each SO engaged is in
an infnitesimal way writing history,
serves to rouse even dormant ambi-
ton.
Active daily newspaper work is a
hotbed for the development Of the
best intellectual qualities. It is a
life Of untiring perseverance, Of un-
failing patience, of abasement of self
at times to an abnormal degree. yet
upon the whole decidedly beneficial.
Frequently it comes to pass that the
woman writer, while maintaining her
dignity of brains, must entirely oblit-
crate her individuality, unless she
means to fall by the wayside and be
laid in the potter's field of failures.
For some people she must ever be-
come mere listening machine. Alb
solutely this and nothing more IL she
means to achieve success. for she
must listen to all manners Of woes
and tribulations, and have positively
none OF her own to relate in ex-
change. The role Of Punchinello is
not always the easiest to enact, but
to leave it out Of the curriculum at
times very materially interferes with
achieving the desired end
Of all arts of which she must be
come mistress that Of learning to
draw people out that their best pnir r
may be brought into play. is the most
important. The acquisition of this
accomplishment has In turn its re
hex good effect upon her work. as nine
times out Of ten it viii enable her
to turn an opening negative into
closing affirmative.
The branch of newspaper work In
which women excel In Washington
in which in fact they have the almost
exclusive field, is that of social report
ing. TO a greater or less degree dur
ing the last half dozen years the 50
clety reporter has come to have {
place upon the staff Of nearly ever.
large journal in the United States
and Europe. But it is in Washington
that she rises to her greatest heights
Of usefulness. and, therefore, because
Of the broader opportunities amonI
the official and political element, o
greater importance.
In this particular phase Of work
woman's great success lies in the cult
vation Of the power to keep her owl
counsel regarding much that mus
necessarily be seen and heard Il
the discharge of her work. And 4
this respect, scoff as unbelievers may
she has achieved a success. Fror
the experience Of years ] can truth
fully assert that the woman writer
Of the daily press do not gossip eve
among themselves of the vast nun
Der of secrets that come to thei
knowledge concerning prominent pei
pie of the world of society in whic
their lives are spent.
At the start Of society repor
ing womans presence on the rel
ular stats of newspapers was r.
garded in the light of a necessary evi
She not infrequently in masculine e
timatlon sunk far below this eve
rarely in the eye Of the general pul
lie did she rise above it. Just VII
this should have been is enigmatica
as the copy" Of the average woma
correspondent requires less revisin
than that of her brother OF the PEI
Further, she represents a commertu
value that the man does not and
the nature Of things cannot HI
value is incalculable as an ADVERT
ing medium This is something 81
/, comes in time to understand and a
preclate.
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