In the mean time there were, both in the West and South, women who had demonstrated their ability and fitness for the profession of journalism. In New Orleans Mrs. E. J. Nicholson, first as coadjutor and then as successor to her husband, has for thirty years or more held editorial control of the _Picayune_, of which she is the chief owner. On her paper and on the _Times-Democrat_, also owned by a woman, women have for many years held responsible positions. In Assumption, the _Pioneer_ has, for a term second only to that of Mrs. Nicholson’s career, been owned and edited by Mrs. Susan Dupaty. Mrs. S. V. Kentzel has for fourteen years made her paper, the _St. Tammany Farmer_, of eminent practical value and importance to the agricultural and material interests of a large part of the State. Of later years there have been quite a number of additions to the list of women journalists of Louisiana, foremost among these being Miss Addie McGrath of the _Baton Rouge Truth_, who is one of the chief officers of the Press Association, and Mrs. M. L. Garner, owner and editor of the _Carroll Banner_ at Lake Providence; Mme. Marie Roussel is the editor of _Le Propagateur Catholique_ of New Orleans. A Woman’s National Press Association was formed at New Orleans in May, 1885. Two years later the addition of foreign members caused a change of name to the Woman’s International Press Association. Mrs. Nicholson is its President. Near the same time that Miss Booth assumed charge of _Harper’s Bazar_, Mrs. Mary E. Bryan entered upon the literary management of the _Sunny South_ at Atlanta, Georgia. She had served her apprenticeship to journalism as assistant editor upon an Atlanta paper, and had afterwards edited a political journal in Natchitoches. After ten years management of the _Sunny South_ she joined the corps of women editors in New York, taking charge of the _Fashion Bazar_ a dozen years ago. After Mrs. Bryan’s departure from Atlanta there seems to have been no other woman in that part of the South inspired with an ambition for newspaper work until Miss Andrews recently took a place upon the _Atlanta Constitution_. Texas has a number of women journalists, most of whom are new-comers in their profession; but one of them, Mrs. S. L. McPherson, in 1877, established and still edits and publishes at Sherman the _Daily Democrat_. For the two or three previous years her home had been in Caddo, Indian Territory, where she had aided her husband in publishing the _Oklahoma Star_. These ladies are all welcome members of the Texas Press Association. There are a number of recent indications that journalism is likely to become a favorite profession among Southern women.