Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-29
ONE Haeaa DF TYPEWRITER.
She Made Her Way against all Odds
Through Pure Grit.


Through Pure Grit.
Out on Broadway just now 1 saw q
little girl that l have a big respect
for, says a writer in the New York
Herald. She is typewriter. but she
is not much like the kind the news
papers are always telling stories
about. though, like them, she is pref
ty-as pretty as picture and as good
as II she were old and ugly. She is
twenty-five, and let me tell you what
she has done.
Six years ago she was the most
ragged, friendless, ignorant little or
phan you would care to hear of, and
she had four younger sisters, each
more ragged and friendless and igno-
rant and orphaned than the other.
She went into a typewriting copying
Office to learn the business in return
for her services as Office girl She
was such bad speller that everybody
said she would never make a type
writer. She set in to learn to spell
She was so shabby that the head Of
the Office said he was ashamed to send
her on errands but she did her work
so well that he concluded it would
pay to spend couple of dollars in
fixing her up.
She made herself a skillful operator,
although to begin with she was uncom-
monty clumsy.
The fact was she had something
else on her mind than finding a hus-
band to support her. She was think
ing about those four little sisters.
They were living around with rela-
tives, most of whom were very poor.
and when they were not poor they
were exceptionally cross and cruel to
make up. This little woman, call her
Annie If you like, had an ambition to
be mother to those little sisters.
A mother? What she is now Is
mother and father too!
The first money she could scrape
together from her typewritiug she
spent learning stenography. She could
not afford all the lessons she needed,
but she made it up in hard work by
herself. She was not gifted with the
qualities for making the best stenog-
rapher-the best ones are born, not
made-but she did all she could and
she came out better than the average
that do Office work, and since that she
has had comparatively easy sailing.
People had noticed her; she got
good position, not much money. as
you count money but enough to start
her in executing a long cherished
plan.
She got together those four sisters.
She took a little fiat uptown. She
gathered them all in. and told them
they must live without furniture until
they could buy it-not on the INSTALL
ment plan. In the mean time they
would all have plenty of good food,
such as they had not had before, because
furniture is luxury but good food is
an investment for working girls.
Two of the girls were learning type
writing in the same way she did. The
two younger ones were in school They
camped along the best they could and
were happy. That was year and q
half ago. Now three of them are
earning good pay, as salaries 60
there is prejudice in that big office
colloluS "uClO hulllS ID Ill ldtOE Vi
the family; one of the younger ones is
learning the business in the old way.
Their home is as pretty little place
in its modest way as there is in Har-
lem, and their relatives are more help
full and kind than ever before be-
cause nothing succeeds like success.
And l call that young woman sue
cess worth talking about.
How the Pyramids Were Built.
A moneyed man, who was looking at
the process of laying an artificial stone
pavement in front of one of his many
properties, startled the friends who
were standing about him by remark
ing: Il believe that the Egyptian
pyramids were built in just that way"
Pressed for an explanation, he said
that while he had never been in Egypt
he had read the works of all Egypt
ologists including Brugsch and Piazzi
Smyth, and had never found in any of
them a theory which would satisfac-
torily account for the manner in which
the pyramids were constructed.
Now" he said, 'you must remem-
Der that the pyramids are built OF
stone which bears no resemblance to
anything found within five hundred
miles of their location. 1t is Incredible
that the Egyptians of four or five
thousand years ago should have pos
sessed the mechanical ingenuity to
move these enormous blocks of stone
from the granite quarries of Abyssinia
or Syria to the pyramids. Is it not
much more natural to suppose that the
ancient Egyptians possessed the secret
of making artificial stone, and that the
pyramids were constructed by layer
upon layer of Nile river mud, har-
dened by just such processes as we
employ to make artificial stone? 1t is
much more plausible explanation OF
their construction than the laborious
and unintelligent suppositions that the
stones were carried across the desert
to form the foundation and base Of the
pyramids. / firmly believe that the
Egyptians of the anti Christian era
understood the manufacture of arti-
fetal stone and that they built the
pyramids out of it. "-Phila. Press
KIND words have a much larger and
more important mission than is usual