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got into the syndicate*,” and her matter now goes to many out of-town papers To the directly opposite type of newspaper women belongs Miss Morgan, cattle reporter for several morning papers. Sue is an Irish gentlewoman by birth, and is re puted to have been at one time a recklesscross country rider. Family reverses senther to this couoiry, and she toos to thework that she is now engaged in.She earns a handsome income, and has jus; buiit herself a home on Staten Island. Miss Morgan ia nearly six feet tall, plain in face, figure and dress, and stariiiogly masculine in general appearance, but cultivated in many directions, and a charming companion. After these come many women who have taken up various specialties, and succeeded in greater or less degree. It would be hard to name three women, however, who have maintained thernselve3 very long in NewYork journalism without takmg to sensationalism or specialties.One well educated and refined young woman, who found herself suddenly deprived of a comfortable desk, undertook general work, but was horrified when a well meaning managing editor asked her to question some unhappy sister woman about the secrets of a scandalous life. She was glad to escape to the haven of a moderately paid copy reader's desk at the Harpers*. Newspaper R jw is haunted by a host of women, young and old. who are the special horrorof managing editors. Same are tearful, some coquettish, some shrinking, ail persistent. These who hold on long enough finally gain a footing; but the spectacle of the ordinary unarmed woman in the downtown struggle is a thing to make a man s heart ache
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Dubuque Sunday Herald
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Sun, Aug 04, 1889
Page 4
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