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WOMAN AND HOME.
SOME OF THE SELF-MADE WOMEN OF
OUR COUNTRY.

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The sweet poetess, Lucy Larcom, was
mill.han :,
Adelaide Phillips, the singer, now dead,
was treasury girl, and so for time was
Ssra Jewett, the actress.
Pretty Maude Granger, with the gold
brown eyes and shapely form, first earned
her livelihood by running sewing -ma'
chine
Minnie Hauk's father was German and
a shoemaker, in the most straitened clrcum'
stan>es Her voice early attracted the at
tention of one of New Iora's richest men,
who had it cultivated, and thus opened the
way to fame for her.
Charlotte Cushman was the daughter OF
poor people, who however, gave her an en-
cellent education in tho publ: schools ln
order to maintain herself she aSpirei to be-
come an opera singer, Gut, accidentally los
ing her voice, became an actress instead
The mother Of Clara Louise Kellogg
strained every nerve to give Clara musical
education, and at one time was protes'
sional spiritual medium. Miss Kellogg
failed three times kach time she retired,
not discouraged, but to devote herself 70
the stiu further development Of her voice.
Finally she took the public by storm. her
first failures were her last
The lady doctors ani lawyers have bad
the hardest time to enter professional ranks.
Nevertheless, they have made great head
pyay since Elizabeth blackwell Valnly
applied for admission to the medical col
lees in New York, Boston, and Philadel'
Dhia She was finally admitted as a
student in tho medical college Of Geneva,
". Her youth was one Of struggle,
hardship, GiscouraSenient, and res1rlcsea
means
Edmouia Lewis, the sculptor, is co!ored.
Overcoming the pre-, ,udice against Ler sex
and color, and self-educated, Miss Lewis Is
now successfully pursuing her profession In
Italy. Only one other coiored woman ever
gained distinction in the fine arts: that
was the singer who called herself TIE Black
Sman." and who fourished about fifteen
wears ago. There has never been an au.
sharess or actress of co.or bey ond tho rner'
est tyro, but no one can predict what taa
future may hold for color people
We have had two great female astrene-
1ners. Miss Herschell and Miss Mitchell
Both were single women, and both took up
the study of astronomy in order to assist
their brothers Miss Herschelfs pathway
to fame was over q smooth roai, but Miss
Maria Mitchell had everything TO lat le
with. She was the daughter Of small
farmer in Nantucket who was obliged to
eke ont bis income by teaching school at 81 4
week Maria was constantly occupied with
household duties, and She describes her
childhood as being an endless wasting OF
dishes"
1t IS curious fact that 50 many of our
celebrated literary women were the
daughters of farmers and began their life
work by teaching school--gradna!ty
acquiring fame and aauence by writing
Take the Cary sisters to begin with, and
Mrs Lydia Sigourney, the poeteSs, before
1hem, then Grace Greenwood, and Lastly
Ella Wheeler Ella Wheeler mover taught
school, but her parents were poor farm peo-
,,ie in the west The first poem she ever
wrote she sent TO Mrs. Frank Leslie, who
saw enough merit in it to accept 1t. lila
has bought her parents home out OF Der
own earnings, and is in every respect most
excellent daughter.
Clara Morris mother was coo'l in
restaurant in Cleveland when Clara was q
lanky girl of - years of age. Manager John
Lllsler advertised for some extra girls for
tho ballet in pantomime he was getting DIP.
Clara applied for place in the extra bal
lst She wore an old, faded calico dress,
much TOO short for her long legs, thin
shawl, and ragged woolcn scarf wrapped
around her head When the extra girls
were no longer required Clara was retained
for small parts. That was the beginning OF
the career Of the great emotional actress,
Clara Morris, who, blythe way, is Of En-
gEsh, not American, birth
Anna Dickinson began life as a school
teacher. Wearying of this, she one day
went to Mrs John Drew, manasereSs OF the
Arch Street theatre, Philadelphia, and en-
treated her to give her an opportunity to
go upon the stage. Mrs Drew heard her
recite, told her that she had very bad &C
cent, that she did not think she would ever
make an actress, and advised her to 80
back to her school teaching. The war
broke out soon afterwurd, giving Miss
Dickinson an opportunity to emerge from
obscurity Sns still secretly cherished his:ri'
onic aspirations, but years were destined to
e,apse before she was enabled to test whether
Mrs Drew had been true prophet OF not
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