| Show WOMANS WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS Brief Sketch of a Rising American Newspaper News-paper Woman Mrs Ella A Hitchcock lately sailed from New York for Europe and will be abroad for a year perhaps longer She will journey from point to point writing newspaper letters about matters mat-ters that strike her attention Mrs Hitchcock is a fine example of what a woman can do when she makes up her mind She is thoroughly educated edu-cated When she first began to earn her own living she became a telegrapher teleg-rapher In a short time she became noted as a lightning operator She began be-gan her career in Philadelphia and so excellent was her work so apparent her executive ability that the place of manager of the office in which sho was employed was soon offered to her She declined it however and went I to New York Here for a time she was hi a brokers office then accepted a place I j i in the huge Western Union building on M f 0 t l I Broadway Here she at once became I noted for her skill and strength and presently a long distance wire of the land usually operated only by men was placed in her charge It is generally considered that women have not strength of wrist to work the instruments instru-ments that send messages across the continent but Mrs Hitchcock proved that she could do this with the best Next for a year or two she was the operator on the special wire in the office of the Brooklyn Times Meantime Mean-time at odd intervals she wrote some newspaper letters on her own I hook and proved that her capability capa-bility here was no less than it had been in telegraphy She seemed to grasp intuitively the salient points of interest in-terest in journalism just as her ear and brain had read the meaning of the click click of the telegraph Finally Mrs Hitchcock abandoned telegraphy altogether and entered the journalistic I field Openings for newspaper work came to her with what seemed marvelous marvel-ous luck But it would have been no luck if she had not been brilliantly able to do the work Mrs Hitchcock is a prominent member of Sorosis and a large handsome merry woman with scores of friends who wish her all success suc-cess in her journalistic career in Europe I Annie Besant from being the best hated woman in England has become perhaps the most beloved one Of all the English women who have views she is the ablest and most fearless Ten years ago her ideas were so unpopular that the British nation stood up and howled Clergymen preached and wrote against her the law attacked her the British matron rolled up her eyes to heaven and the mob set on by all these cursed her and stopped only short of personal violence In the midst of it all I visited her in the autumn of 1882 in the little London office in which she assisted Charles Bradlaugh in editing his radical newspaper I suppose she was at that time almost the loneliest woman in all England I enjoyed visiting her all the more that I was warned it was hardly the proper thing to do I found a sweet voiced cpmely young woman with a face full of light and vim and conviction Her eloquence TCS second only to her earnestness 1 was so harmed with the radical English woman wom-an that I came straightway home to America and wrote a long newspaper letter let-ter about her full of gush and admiration admira-tion of which she deserved every bit I remember that the editor of the paper for which I wrote the letter had some hesi I KiHnn in P milYHsliino if en infancA vnc the 4 t b 4V vu prejudice against Annie Besant at th time time And now she has lived it all Iovn simply by standing by her colors and working for the good of mankind She has served long and admirably as a member of the London school board among other posts of trust and honor she has held She has suffered as few women wom-en have and now the good time is corning corn-ing for her i A new definition of a society woman is abroad A society woman is now defined de-fined to be a woman who belongs to a great number of societies and clubs In the leading social circles of Washington Wash-ington are several young women who honorably earn their own living Thus the Capitol sets as it should do an example ex-ample to the rest of the republic In 1875 onefifth of the female population popula-tion of Massachusetts were wage earners In 1883 nearly onethird were thus engaged en-gaged and there were only eight branches of industry in the whole state in which women did not work tffrt ttJ Ae thulM |
