The Grenada sentinel., 1907-02-02

JHlS COLUMN OuC0 ItCOSuIZSu means u
tremendous valuation to the propri-
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 it's 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-
rfcy they made enviable records in
the Spanish-American and South AT
rican wars. But it is as an inter-
viewer that the woman newspaper
writer is beginning to excel. In this
lies her unQuestioned success. It 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-
toilad IN coOoa imnortapt uorlz of +I;,
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
FOR 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-
tion to 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 a 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 peo-
pie 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
and her talent met upon the only
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 pur-
suits where women come in active
with men.
The outlook is decidedly encourag-
ng to woman of good health. To !
)ne with perfectly normal way of /
ooking at life and things generally; |
who, wishing to support herself, has /.
Tet no capital other than brains and
energy to invest, l would decidedly /
recommend newspaper writing. There !
S no appreciable danger of the ranks /
)eing overcrowded, for the artless |
yOung enthusiast who enters this field |
soon becomes aware that she has un-
lertaken no child's play, but is act /
tally engaged in the hardest work !
If which the strongest, most deter |
mined natures can be capable. Such .
,eing the case, the result is inev- !
tably the survival of the fittest. 1t /
S a field in which idlers and drones
will not be tolerated, but in which
here is plenty of room for the earn
st women of the land.
What gift of prophecy but would
AVE been f1Outed to ScOrn in the piO-
leer days of women newspaper
writer's had the assertion been ven
ured that the close of the nineteenth
entury would have witnessed the
pectacle of women writer's in charge
f departments of the leading news
apers and magazines of the coun-
ry! Yet now even the most preju-
iced of observant persons must real
ze that before the twentieth GEN.
ury reaches its zenith there will be
ot one but many clever women fill
ng with honor the positions of city
nd managing editors of great metro
lolitan dailies.
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