Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-03-24
Copyright. by Joseph u. powles.)

Copyright, by Joseph II. Boviss)
best known women writer's for newspa-
Icrs at Washington. Her book on .Of.
= fetal Etiquette at the Nations Capitar'
entitled Not All the Kings iiorscs''G
Woman's place on the newspapers
to-day is due to the law OF demand
and supply. She has not crowded
man out 1t is distinctively posi-
ton into which she has neither forced
her way nor sought in ever SO limited
a degree TO Gust man from that do
main in which since the invention of
the art OF printing he had held exclu-
sive right.
With The evolution OF successive
stages of progress the necessity Of
woman's work on the press became so
r apparent that the cry went forth
throughout the land. And 1t was be-
cause of that cry that this great field
of woman's cleverness and industry
was opened up.
With trembling feet the pioneer
woman writers crossed the threshold
of the newspaper Offices. 1t is with
assured tread she makes her way
to-day. In the comparatively short
space of time in which woman has
been an acknowledged factor on the
staff OF the daily press she has &C.
complished much. Before her there
yet stretches vast worlds to con-
Quer. But that she will conquer, that
in the future she will achieve success
In this occupation is long since q
foregone conclusion.
Not the least powerful factor wom-
an brings to her work as newspa-
per writer is that birthright, intuition.
When added to this her keenly observ-
ant powers become trained along the
necessary lines and her natural ten
acity of purpose has the strong slim
illus of competition with men. 1t will
be realized that success ia and must
continue TO be her portion.
AS in all else of the country's
work, there is great deal OF human
nature in the newspaper world. and
when woman enters into such active
shouldertoshoulder rivalry with men.
as has now of necessity developed In
all the active press matters OF the
day, she must understand from the
start that she can expect no quar-
ter To be upon the staff of an up
to.date daily means an amount of
work more exhausting mentally and
physically than in any other wage
earning occupation can fall to the lot
Of human being. To be upon the
ataff nf n rf,L
to live at concert pitch day after day,
month after month
1t is only by the. strictest obsery.
ance of the hygienic laws relating
more particularly to the regular eat.
ing of simple, easily digested, nourisl.
Ing food that any one, man or wom-
an, can expect to stand the strain.
Newspaper work at all times wears
upon the nerves. and yet, strange to
say, it Is women who bear it best.
Seldom, indeed, do they go under
from the effects of this work, while
the number of physical wrecks among
the men is wholly out of proportion.
This be 1t understood. where the
work and hours are Id entical.
1t sounds at first paradoxlcal to say
that the life of newspaper writer
is one OF incessant repression and
continued development. The ire
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 infinitesimal way writing history,
serves to rouse even dormant ambi.
ton.
Active daily newspaper work is
hotbed for the development of tho
best intellectual qualities. 1t ia
life Off untiring perseverance. of un-
falling patience. of abasement of self
at times to an abnormal degree, yet
uponj the whole decidedly beneficial.
Frequently 1t comes to pass that tho
woman writer, while maintaining her