The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-03-08

paper Is quick to be noted by fash
ionabie women The reliability OF
this column once recognized means
tremendous valuation to the prop-i
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 tim
no department Of newspaper work
in which women have not practically
exemplified the fact that they staA.d
equal with men as reporters. AS waT
correspondents, for nerve and actu
racy they made enviable records ir
the Spanish American and South AT
viewer that the woman newspaper
writer is beginning to excel. in this
lies her unquestioned success. 1t 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 taker
little active part in the workings o.
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
woman more naturally than man
carries out Instructions When de
tailed to some important work of this
nature she is quick to add to heI
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 l 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
uraly strengthened by the severe
training is to be enumerated an in
stiucG for news. This means not only
to keep abreast of the doings of the
hour, but to know at hearing OF
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 fata
perfdy of playing traitor. Anothe,
essential is not only to be equal tc
emergencies but to cultivate the fac
uty OF deciding quickly and wisely
This last is by no means easy even
to veteran writer.
lnterspersed with the hard work are
bright bits Of happiness along the way
There are many compensations fol
the life of self-abnegation in the
stanch, elevatl1g 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
competition with men.
The outlook is decidedly encourag
ing TO a woman of good health. TIC
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, l would decidedly
recommend newspaper writing. There
is no appreciable danger of the ranks
being overcrowded, for the artless
Young enthusiast who enters this field
soon becomes aware that she has un
dertaken no child's play, but is act
uSlly 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 II
is a 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 gilt OF prophecy but would
have been fouted 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.
ize that before the twentieth cen.
tury reaches it's zenith there will be
not one but many "fever women fill.
ing with honor the positions of city
and managing editors of great metro.
molitan dailies.
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