The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-07-02
How Some Women Began Life.
BY CELIA LOGAN.

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BY CELIA LOGAN.
Clara Morris mother was a cook in
! . restaurant in Cleveland when Clara
was lanky girl of fifteen years ofage
y Manager John Ellsler advertised for
some extra girls for the ballet in a
pantomime he was getting up. Clara
applied for place in the extra ballet.
Shs wore an old, faded calico dress,
much too short for her long legs, a
thin shawl, and q ragged woolen scarf
wrapped around her head. When the
extra girls were no longer required
Clara was retained for small parts.
That vas the beginning OF the career
5of the great emotional actress, Clara
Morris. who, by the way, is OF English,
not American, birth. s.,
The sweet poetess Lucy l4arcom was
. mill hand.
Pretty Maud Granger, with the gold,
brown eyes and shapely form, first
earned her livlihood byrunning a sew
ing machine.
Sarah Bernhardt was dressmak-
er'sapprenticc; so was Matilda Heron.
Adelaide Nelson began life as q
child's nurse, and Lady Hamilton as
= hons emaid.
Miss Braddon, the well-known novel
ist. was utility actress in the Eng.
lish provinces, performing principally
in pantomime.
Christine nilsson was a poor swed-
isf peasant, and ranbareioot inchild-
hood. Jenny Lind, also a swede, was
the daughter Of a principal Of q young
ladies' boarding school, and beyond
rather narrow circumstances had no
especial difficulties in order to gain
celebrity.
The great French actress. Rachel,
had as hard q childhood as ever fell
to the lot OF q genius. Ragged, bare
foot, and hungry ,..she played Che tam
BOURNE in the streets, and sang and
begged for a dole. Naturally she was
illiterate and vulgar, but overcame
both these drawbacks ut the same
+ time that she gradually acquired re-
nown. $3.50 = s,l..Srssss ss-.S., 4
Charlotte Cushman was the daughter
OF poor people, who, however. gave
her an excellent education in the pub
lie schools. In order to maintain her
self she aspired to become an opera
singer, but accidentally losing her
voice, became an actress ins t cad
Adelaide Phillipsa the singer, now
dead, was aTreasury girl, and so for
time was Hara JeWett, thes actress.
The mother of Clara Louise KeI-
logg strained every nerve to give Clara
q musical education, and at one. time
was professional spiritual medium.
Miss Kellogg failed three times. Each
time she retired, not discouraged, but
to devote herself to the still further
developement of her voice. Finally
she took the public by storm. Her
first failures were herslast.
Edmonia Lewis, the sculptor, is col
0red. Overcoming the prejudice
against her sex and color, and self
educated i Miss Lewis is now Success
fully pursningher professionin Italy.
4 Only one other coloreds woman ever
gained distinction in the fine arts;
that was the singer who called herself
The Black Swan" and who flourish
cd about fifteen years ago There has
never been an authoress or actress
OF color beyond the merest tyro, but
no ono can predict what: the future
may hold for colored people.
- L. Il
stored and eloquent harangues, had
SO much to do with bringing about
tho French Revo .dtion-was the
daughter aof . bookseller and sold
books over the counter. She was one
OF the most gifted and learned women
OF that terrible period. She became
. victim Of the feud she had helped to
stir up, and perished on the guillotine.
She was the originator of the famous
phrase: 80, Libertyl how many
crimes are committed in thy name!h
Anna Dickinson began life as a school
teacher. Weary;ns Of th;s, she one
day went to Mrs. John Drew, manage
ress Of the Arch Street Theatre, Phila.
delphia, and entreated her to give her
an opportunity to 70 upon Che stage.
Mrs. Drew heard her recite, told her
she had; . very bad accent. that she
did not think she would ever make an
actress. and advised her to 60 back to
her school teaching, The war broke
out soon after ward, giving Miss Dick
inson an opportunity to emerge from
obsci,rity. She still secretly cherished
histri0Dic aspirations, but years were
I destined to elapse before she was en-
abied to test whether Mrs. Drew had
been . true prophet or not.
Mrs. Langtr2 is the daughter of q
country parson OF small means, but
tho old proverb OF her face being her
fortune, proved true in her case. New
& ertheless, the standing Mrs. Langtry
has acquired upon the boards entities
1 her; to3EAnk among the self made WON.
on d the day.
nnis Hauk' father was a German
/ and 1hS Ssnaker in the most strait
4 snad cinellpiet Ances. Her voice early
4 AttsActldt the attention of one of New
York,s f1chest men who had it culti.
y4ted. and thus opened the way to
/ fsne for Her 4 \
Ss Nell Gwynn sold oranges in the
strests and theAters. a From the pit,
while vending her wares, she took q
fancy for the stage, and let nothing
4 stand IN thsway until she had achiev-
ed the object 0f her ambition. She
became famous as an actress, and as
the fayorlte OF Charles II.