Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-11-17

She called me over the phone. said that
she had started a school for journalists
and would / please tell the girls about
Il and advise them TO take That she
would give me a good commission for
my trouble
didn't tell her that / was not in
the habit OF charging the girls for the
things ala for them but I did tell
her that did not know her and could
not advise any girl TO so to her until
she gave me good references. So she
came 70 see me
she had quite a smooth story 10 tell.
and the first time that she stopped 10
catch her breath. I mildly suggested the
idea that ali girls did not have the
journalistic talent
.sYou DO not need a particle Of talent"
Then she stopped a moment and said. as
II to prove her words, Why. you could
learn Journalism" Mrs Bee, who had Just
come IN and was using the phone. gave
. little gasp and looked as she ex-
pecfed ma 10 speak. did. but not the
words she was looking for:
Il don't quite understand you" I an
swered. IF no talent Is necessary. how
do they ret things readableT
ITS this way" she said. leaning to-
ward me very confidentiaIly: suppose
something happens 20 man here. who
lives IN Ohio. These papers write II up.
Won read II and send IL right on TO some
big paper in Cincinnati. and they win
paw you good money for IL"
.sBut.- I REPLIED. that's merely re-
rortfnx and a thing OF that sorts got 10
be teIeeraphed when IL happens Not
q bit OF IL she insisted. you can easiiy
make a hundred and twenty-five dollars
a month You call yourself a business
xaAN WvfN
nav me IS 10 teach you how to make
GOOD living writing for the papers There
are plenty OF girls in this city you could
influence 70 come 20 me and would
give you a good per cent
..N-o = I said. there isn't girl IN
this city would send TO you. The girls
I know need every cent OF their money.
More than that. you couldn't make Jour-
naIists BY any such methods. It's
matter OF temperament OF edueauoh,
and az years of actual experience As
Co. nv being a business woman. I am,
hut not the sort 70 see money IN getung
a per cent for deceiving any one
she snfffed rather disdainfully. and
saids 1T see that you don't want to make
= hundred and twenty-five dollars
month. I believe that with your educa-
ton YOU would soon get good position
on some paper. But IL you won't sooo-
by" "a
After she had gone Mrs Bee ssio.
.sHow could you keep from telling ne1
something about your own work. why
didn't you ask her II she makes that
much herselfy'
ssTell. the truth is. I did not want her
20 feel too cheap. ! did want to mo
out What she had for the girls ana
n she had really had short course
IN English and composition ] would
have arranged for her to get up an
evening class in the Young Womans
CHRISTIAN association. We often get up
such classes 20 help the stenographers
ana clerks. AS to asking her about
her salary. 7 try not TO be stumbling
block. and she would have answered
ssees.T which would have been story.
for no sane man or woman would be
Eolng over the country and stopping at
third-rate boarding houses and trying
10 get up classes In anything. II they
were philanthropic enough to want to
help the girls they would do IL different
""
have been q years m journalism and
have never yet got 10 the place where
/ can teach any one in six weeks to
earn a salary Of half that much. Let
ters written 20 this page viii eventual
~ teach the writers how TO handle sub
jects easily. II one keeps copy of