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4 It cannot be denied that she is sue
cess, and it is said that nothing suc-
ceeds like success. But this paper is to
show, in brief way, what she has done
| in journalism in this country. Whether
she has held her own in that field where
brain outclasses Drawn; that kingdom
where the thinker is monarch of all he
surveys.
II may be matter of news to macy
that women entered the journalistic field
in colonial times. For many years after
the death of her husband, who was the
editor and founder of the Massachusetts
News Letter and Gazette, the first pa
per published in the colonies, Mrs.
Margaret Craper edited the paper with
marked success. In 1927, Lydia Maria
Child launched the first children g maga-
zine in America and conducted it sue
cessfully for eight years. From 1887 to
1867, Adah S. Stephens edited Peter
sons Magazine and was an editorial
contributor to the New York Express
as we'll. At the same time Caroline
Walter Wells was editing the Boston
Transcript just as we'll as any man.
Margaret Fuller created the literary
and critical departments of Horace
Greeley's paper, the New York Tribune.
Jennie June was the creator of the news
paper syndicate system, which has
grown to such enormous proportions.
Mary L. Booth was the brilliant editor
of Harper's Bazaar for over twenty
years. Mrs. Nicholson, as contribu-
tor to the columns of the Picayune, of
which she came to be proprietor, gained
much reputation for her literary ability.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is not only one of
the foremost modern poets, but is dis
tinguished writer in other fields. The
present woman editor of Harper's Ba-
zaar draws salary of $1,000 a year.
McClure's Magazine has women at the
head of three departments. Ida Tarbell,
she of Standard Oil fame, has been on
its editorial staff from its beginning. 1t
is said that recently she was asked to
write a short historical work of which
she was to fix the price. She replied:
81 have no time now. can see no time
in the future to devote to any new
work" Not many literary men are in
position where they can refuse such
tempting offer.
These are some Of the women writer's
of whom all the women knows. But
there is another class who lines are cast
in less prominent places. The fierce
light that beats about the throne does
not fall upon them, end yet they are do
ing grand, noble work. To this class
belong the women journalists of Missis-
sippi. They are not drawing princely
salaries, and perhaps their names will
never be written in the editorial book of
fame. Yet in their communities, wher-
ever their columns are read, there is
sweeter, healthier, more wholesome at
mosphere. The fine Italian hand of her
can be traced over the pages of the pa
per with which she is connected. To her
work she gives her hand, her brain, her
heart. She views its pages as the means
OF reaching the masses that she may ell
evate them to a higher standard of mo-
rality, to instill noble ideals in them; to
draw their eyes from the muckheap to
the stars. This is what the newspaper
women Of the State of Mississippi are
doing.
1t is contended that the large influx of
women into industrial fields hitherto pre-
empted by men will upset and demoraI-
ize all industrial and commercial condi-
tions. do not believe 80. These con-
ditions are not so iron-bound, but are
elastic and pliable, and wherever there
is worker who sincerely desires de-
sires to do honest work, place or sphere
will be made for such IA one. believe
that in the adjustment of the industrial
conditions so as to accommodate the two
sexes, women will be more and more
drawn into the educational field. And
certainly journalism ID an important and
district department of education.
There has been decided change in
the tone and conduct of newspapers.
Time was when the average editor read
his exchanges to find something to carp
at and criticise, and newspaper duels
were constantly fought, which sometime
led to more serious consequences. But
the fighting editor who carried his gun,
is practically extinct, and would be
about as rare specimen as the great
aux. No, the victories of the modern
press areessentially irenic. 10 has en-
tered upon constructive period, one of
building up. To this work the woman
editor is particularly fitted, and / be-
lieve the time is not far distant when the
newspaper without woman on its edi-
torial force will be the exception rather
than the rule. The civic movement, the
questions of home economies and DOM
estic science, sanitary improvements,
the development of rural schools, pure
| food laws, the divorce evil, the sacrifice
of the child to the Moloch of CONNER
cialism, and other questions that affect
the whole nation have taken strong hold
on the minds and hearts of the women
OF the day. The masses are to be edu-
Gated in these matters, and who is more
fitted to do this than the cultured wo-
man OF magnetic personality, and where
has she a better medium than the col
umns of the press?
Woman has established her position
in the journalistic field just as she has
in all others-by persistent effort. She
bears the scars of the conflict. But of
| that she complains not. All she asks
is that the bar sinister of sex may be
removed from her as a worker and that
her work be recognized and judged by
| the standard of men workers.
The future holds up the crystal before
her, and, gazing in its clear depths, she
sees in her hands seeds whose sowing
! shall flower and bear fruit to the better
ment of humanity. She feels that for
her as well as for man the
"Sin of each Illustrate ghost
Is-the unlit lamp, the ungirt 1oin."
She asks that she, too, may have
equal opportunity
ITO churn her way to fortune,
To carve her way to fame"
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