m a special recognition of their
interests? We have special fashion departments, special cooking
departments, but no niche or corner devoted to the moral,
industrial, educational, philanthropic and political interests of
women; and does not your judgment assure you that such a
department could be rendered popular?" As a result of this
conversation a special corner of the _Inter-Ocean_ was yielded to
woman's interests, designated by the editors, "Woman's Kingdom,"
and on January 6, 1877, the following announcement appeared:

Congratulations to women that we have at last found a home
in journalism; that amid the clashing of sabers of our
modern press tournament, the knights of the quill recognize
that women have some rights that journalists are bound to
respect. These columns are in the interest of no class,
clique, sect, or section, and we earnestly request accurate
data of woman's work. All missionary, literary, temperance
and woman suffrage organizations, will be accorded space for
announcing their aims. With an occasional review of new
books, we will confer in regard to what woman has written;
wandering through studios and sanctums, we will record what
she is painting and preaching. Pleading an intense and
loving interest in the splendid opportunities now opening to
American women, we shall hope that some truth may be evolved
that may enrich their lives.

Notwithstanding this was the first special department of the
kind, much of the best journalistic work of the State was being
done by women,[369] who seemed to have received a new baptism to
serve the higher interests of humanity. From the desire for
cooeperation expressed by many contributors to "Woman's Kingdom,"
the following little item was set afloat in May, 1877:

Many facts recently arresting attention, in connection with
the industrial, political, and moral interests of women,
seem to render a conference of their representatives in
regard to business aims, expedient. There is need of a
bureau through which the industrial interests of women can
be promoted and some practical answer given to the question
everywhere heard, "How can we earn a living?" There is a
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