The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01
A CUBS FIRST DAYS
In Which the New Lady Reporter
Confesses Her Initial Experience.
BY THE LADY CUB.

FIRST DAY-Went to work today
in a newspaper office. The lovely
things 1 had written about sunsets had
made me known to the editor, and
that is how he came to offer me the
job. 1 think it is going to be awfuliy
interesting work. There was one young
man with spectacles who put some
clippings on my desk and told me to
rewrite them. should think they
would have wanted them rewritten.
There wasn't single adjective in the
bunch.
After I had dressed those perfectly
good articles up to suit myself, the
| city editor gave me slip of paper
| with my assignments for the day. The
| first item was the Ministerial union,
but when called one of the preachers
on the phrone. he said there wouldn't
be a meeting until next week 1t
seemed to me that if he had wanted
! to be real accommodating he would
have called a meeting. 1 told him that
! L didn't like to fall down on the first
| job given me. but he seemed to think
| he was too busy to argue the matter,
| so 1 let that slide and went on to the
| next article on my slip.
That was to get the news from the
| Y. w. c. A. 1 walked down there and
didn't get any news. but as long as :.
| was there 1 thought I might just as
well get my lunch.
| When 1 got back to my desk, L
looked at the next thing on my slip,
and it said to get a story from a wo-
man about some bill she was having
introduced at the legislature. 1 de-
cided to call her in the evening after
| 1 reached home.
The next thing was about a woman
who had some sort of idea for civic
improvement, but after / had tele-
phone her and gotten the dope on it.
| she said she would rather not have me
use it, so I threw it into the waste
basket. q wonder if 1 should have
done that?)
went to look at the next thing on
my slip, and I thought it seemed
awfully quiet in the office, nobody
| was pounding a typewriter, and there
wasn't the big noise 1 had noticed be-
| fore, and which 1 suppose was the
4 paper going to press. ] looked all
another soul in the office.
tried to find the city editor to
ask him what time l could go home.
but I couldn't locate him. They told
/ me down in the business department
1 that the paper had been out an hour
and all the working force had gone,
so I thought I might as well go. too.
if there wasn't anything else I could
do.
The Second Day.
| SECOND DAY. hurried pretty
fast to get to the office on time to-
hour late. I had made up my mind to
tell the city editor that 1 thought he
had made a mistake in cutting out all
the beautiful descriptive adjectiveS /
had used in writing over those pieces
yesterday. I wanted to tell him that
knew folks liked reading descriptions
of things. 1 had felt SO sorry for the
people who would read those pieces
and not find a single adjective, that
fully intended telling him about it
But he seemed to be so busy when
got here this morning that decided to
| wait till some other time.
There wasn't any Ministerial unior
this morning, but / went out on the
street and there 1 got a lovely piece
about a party that Susie Smith had
, last week. L was so pleased with my
hour and half describing it. The wom-
an who had told me about it hadn't
been there, but she had friend who
had a friend whose sister had gone to
it, and she said it was the SWEETEST
function since before the war.
!. I was so tired when / had finished
the article, tilat asked the city editor
if he needed me any more today and
he said he guessed not SO 1 went home
and tried to think up something to
, write about tomorrow. Nobody has
, told me yet how quickly I have caught
onto the newspaper work. but / sup
pose they dent talk about such things
very much. In fact, everyone seems
too busy to do much talking. I really
think that nay success is due to having
written so many papers for my club
) SO the person who says that woman's
clubs are not practical, will have to
take it back.
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