Women as newspaper workers are common enough in America, and now and then the entire equipment of a daily paper has been turned over to the management of women for a stated period, generally with some charitable purpose in view. But they have a daily paper in Paris called La Fronde, of which the entire staff is feminine—proprietor, editorial, contributing, and operative! It circulated 200,000 copies from its first appearance, is now far beyond that number, and is described as being “as well informed, well organized, and well executed an any other paper in Paris. “The dressing-rooms are supplied with mirrors, pins, and hairpins—that is certainly satisfactory, but it is also stated that, though most of the staff are the height of fashion and elegance, the sporting-editor attires herself to suit the occasion!”
Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly, New York, NY, March 21, 1901