The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-08

1ney hdu III securing any thin5 my
Could Learn to Do.
"Do you know when 1 started out to
earn my own living" said woman who,
thanks to her own exertions, is now in re-
ceipt Of handsome income, Il never teit
so thankful for anything in my life as that
nature had endowed me with snub nose
and eyes of no particular color? You have
no idea how personal beauty handicaps a
girl when she is trying to gain toothold.
''The first winter | was down here L
stopped at a boarding house on Tenth
street near Broadway, kept by motherly
old lady who makes a speciality OF looking
after young women who are looking for
work, and while l was there l was In po-
sitiOn TO prove the truth of my assertion,
assure you.
''The bedrooms were large and airy,
and in each of them there were three
little iron beds surrounded by screen, SO
that if you felt inclined you could be very
much alone. The two women in the room
with me, however, were particularly nice,
and we were soon such friends that we dis
pensed with the screens entirely.
''They were really two of the prettiest
women, and yet so entirely unlike each
other that they managed TO be bosom
friends. The younger of the two-she
couldn't have been more than 20, l am
sure-was u widow, and for a long time,
although we had orr own suspicious on
the subject, we couldn't find out what she
did for living. She was out during the
greater part of the morning, but returned
for lunch, and then stayed at home until
Immediately after dinner, when she went
out again. She always wore a veil in the
evening, and returned about II o'clock.
We were all very curious of course, and
yet none of us had the courage to ask her
if she really were an actress. She didn't
look the least STACEY, you know-not bit
HER SECRET FOUND OUT.
"But at last friend from home came to
see me, and insisted upon taking me TO the
theatre. 'Amorita' was on at the Casino
then, so we decided TO go there. If you
remember, there's a moonlight scene in it,
where all the chorus girls are on the stage
in pages costume. and there in the rear
rank, if you please, was my friend. the
pretty widow. At first | was afraid she
had seen me, but as she did not say word
to me about it when she reached home l
waited until knew kittie, our other room
mate, bad fallen asleep, and then went
over to her bed and touched her arm. She
was half asleep, but she aroused herself at
once, and asked what was the matter.
"'Oh, nothing l said, only saw you
tonight, and l thought I'd better let you
know
''She sat up in bed, and positively her
face was white as the bed clothes. Il knew
it must come sooner or later she said.
But, oh! please don't tell the rest of them.
1t was my last resort. / had tried every
thing else. But l was too pretty. No
woman would have me in her house, par
ticularly if she had sons. 1t was either
that or starve, you know
And then by degrees she told me the
whole sad story. Her people lived some
where in Jersey and were very poor. She
had married a man much older than her.
self, who after making her life a misery
for over year had the good grace to COM
NIT suicide. She didn't like to go back to
her people after that, so she came on here
TO get something to do. First she had
tried to get place as governess. But it
was useless. She was too pretty. And so
she had gone on day after day until she
was left without penny. Then she went
to the people at the theatre, and they at
once engaged her.
'She told me a great deal more, and be-
fore she had finished had made resolve
that if it lay in my power that poor girls
days as an actress should be numbered.
She left the stage the week after that, and
the last heard of her she was employed as
by an old lady in the West
Indies, who is peck marked and 49, She
wanted the poor girl as an antidote, l dare
say.
"POoR LITTLE KITE"
"Then there was Kittie. Poor Kittie
went through exactly the same experience,
only she was such n plucky little woman
that she never would show the white
feather. Why, do you know the night
after the poor child pawned her sealskin
coat she kept awake till nearly morning
telling funny stories 1t was only when
there wasn't another penny in her purse
that Kitty INDUCED il cry. One of the
other girls came in one day just before din
ner and found Kittie curled up on the bed
there, sobbing like a little child. Even
then she tried to impart an air of raillery
to her confession that she was dead broke
But her red eyes and nose belied her, and
for once Kittie really had to give in.
"Then the girl talked to her bit and
frightened her up, and then when Kittie
was herself again the girl said to her:
Now, look here, Kittie, if you re not above
putting your pride in your pocket / can !
get you something to do. Perhaps you
know you've got one of the loveliest chins !
imaginable, and now | think | can put you !
in the way of earning little money with |
it. There's an artist | know who's paint /
ing the picture of nun, and has been /
the city from the Battery TO /
Harlem for a chin to his liking The |
model he has does very well for the other /
but her chin's abominable. Yours, /
now, is the very thing he wants. Will you /
sit for him.
well, of course Kittie jumped at the /
chance, as any sensible woman would have 1
done, and in that years academy the pict- 4
ure of the nun won general admiration.
Il have heard of girls making their liv- /
ing by their cheek before, but this Is the 4
first case know Of where a woman's chin /
has proved remunerative. klttie's chin |
was in demand for whole season after 1
that, and she could have gone on posing in 4
definitely if she had not found something 1
better to do. But / started out to prove 4
hat it doesn't pay for 4 working woman 4
20 be pretty, and now tell me honestly, 1
after what I've told you, don't you think
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