Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-06

"Cll anu 'OlltSll'
Col t. W. IIlggInson in the womans Journal.
Self-made men of President Garield's
style are often justly claimed as being
among the finest fruits of our institu-
tions. There is another class who also
deserve well our praise-thOse who
have had to overcome not so
much their early disadvantages as
what many people would consider
their early advantages. They did not
have to surmount poverty, but to sur
mount wealth-nOt to rise out of ad-
versity, but above prosperity. They
have had to learn to sympathiZe with
those in need without ever having
shared their nccessitous conditions;
to espouse radicaliSm when they had
everything to lose by change, 1t is
hard, at any rate to get good work out
of those who are born to inherit what
others have earned by working, how
much harder when their career is des-
tined to involve not merely work, but
the loss of early friends and perhaps of
all the special delights of the society in
which they were born. To accept
these conditions, and to do it knowing
ly and cheerfully, is to be Il 3elf-m0de
man or woman indeed.
A rich young lawyer was once told
IVY an older one that the way to sue
tns5 was this: To spend his fortune;
then to marry and spend his wife'S;
after which he could hope to succeed
at the bar But to achieve really in
dependent moral position-tO he III
deed self-made man ora true man at
all implies more than success at the
bar, for it needs not only intellect, but
the highest aims besides. To accom-
plish this in spite Of early "adyantag
es," is in many respects harder than to
rise out Of what is called obScurity.
To begin with, it wins far less sym
pathy during the process. Everybody
is interested in "Ihe ltomanccj Of q
Poor Young Man." Those OF the
class from which he came, whatever it
bc, are apt to cheer him on, and to re-
iOice, with almost tirC5Omc repititiOn,
that he was once Il rail-splittcr, or a
tanner, or Il llat-boatman. After his
career Of distinction is once begun, lie
has every nduccment to make the
most Of these circumstances in his ca
reer; they are counted 10 hun for
merits, and he is tempted to cyaggaElto
them like the character in Dickens
Bleak House, GIard Times" whose
main stock in trade lay in his carly
struggles, and wa5 put to shame at
lust by the discovery that lac came
Of worthy and well 10 do parents,
Hut the man who tries to Gle.
yqte himself into independence of
character out Of "lortmate' surround
ings is apt to find himself unfortunate.
Those Of the class he is leaving do
not urge him on. but are more apt
to Ccn5uro him or satiri2e him; and
where this is true of Il man, it is twice
as true Of the other sex. remember
one occasion when lecture was to be
delivered in Newport, 10y one OF the
most accomplished women in New
England. "Ah. now | have named
her, which did not mean 10 dO"--as
"WMringtOn" once said Of the same
person, after applying to her Il some
what similar cpithet. "Only think"
said one of the little queens Of OH lit
tie society, as she read the announce.
ment, "that woman was Il lady once"
l well remember when Il boy to have
only heard Of Lothrop Motley as the
handsomest fop and llaneur in Boston
tile manager of fashionable assem-
blies, the leader OF the dance NendelI
, Phillips in his Cambridge Grafton Ide
other day, described the process oI
change which Transformed Motley INTO
an author and then into 4 reIormcf
and made his pen WORTH Il dozen u
plomatists to his country When lhe
| opening Of the war found the lniteo
States almost without 4 friend IN Lu-
, rope. or Mr.. Phillips own career l
) need hardly speak; nor OF lhat other
, charming orator, who, with ms new
Harvard honors upon nm, praised
Phillips at the I'm Beta Kappa ullller
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