The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-29
SELF SUPPORT.
Hard Experiences Of One Accomplished
Girl Trying To Earn a Living.

Hard Experiences Of One Accomplished
Girl Trying To Earn "A Living.
/ Miss Chester. in her book Girls and Wo-
men," has a chapter with the title Of self
/ support" In il she relates the experience
/ Of ''an agreeable girl whose great failure
was her self conceit" who fancied-untH
she tried-that she could do everything
that anybody could do How she was
cured of this deiusion. and then Of the dis
/ COura cement which followed the cure. may
well be Of interest 10 many young women
who have their own way % make IN the
world
As she did not look down on other PEG
pies efforts her self conceit was amusing
eather than annoying she was always
ready 10 write a poem, or sing song, or
paint picture. and a. she was a society
girl and lived in grand house, her little
Coings were often favorably mentioned in
he local papers, so she may be pard0nsd
FOR believing she had a variety OF talents.
hough no one who read her poems or heard
her songs agreed with her
Then came a crisis in her affairs She
was thrown on her resources without a
moments warning. She hid to earn her
living or starve She mad plenty Of energy
"a
rapid view Of her powers Then the scales
fell from her eyes. She felt very doubtful
If there was one among her accomplish
ments which coald furnish bread for her.
She would have said that all her couceit
was gone. But it was not so. As her need
was 80 urgent she tried % ind work. first
in one way and then in another She
was prepared - have the editors reject
her manuscripts, and she was not surprised
that she could not sell her pictures. but 10
was amazing TO be told that her grammar
and spelling were faulty, and IL wa hard
20 see the amusement in the faces o. tba
art dealers when they regarded her most
cherished painting
No woman can earn q living without
some Notifying experiences, bot the more
c0uceited she j. the more such experience
she meets Decause She D. inclined 20 at
tempt things preposterousiy beyond her
So this poor girl. who had always held her
head high. was sngDD-d by every one She
was told the truth vita almost brutal
frankness. and in time she learned her
lesson
She was not dull girl Dor q weak one
There va one thing she could Do vel a.
the outzet though she had 20 little dis
eriminAtion fl regard % hsrs-lf that it DID
not Occur % her that this would he her
lever for moving th- world ~he was a
beautiful hOlsekseper- She rsnaen bered /
t1l' sualiy. and acted accordingly
I canEc. say thas she ~nioyr1 her erperi- /
saoe with a s.-ses ~ gvsdowe~s- b1t sl4s dla /
her WORK vel and wa paid Tor g. She
s4so han t4lsnt--st range % say . was
for drawing STE dil n1c rraIizs this
either. for sbe c5u.G n9t discr1ruiuAts |
enough % go tnat her amateur WORK A. ]
Al artist w4s az al different from her
amateur singing add playing
~ Grst sae nd thought sae ccad % !
everything vel. and then she f11ughL sfe |
could Do nothing well But b. slow Be- |
Erees ard throaza much tr1Dulatl3n she /
be~an 20 81 Esr facuitses in order. All i
when she f5and her germ q q talent sts
cultivated j. Ten ysATE ia1eT she wa aals I
70 s1yport berzelf ~ Der c-a~4ns-s
By tai. time her one fH1lt bad VANISHED
She Wa SIZE PIE and modest and elf rrsrs-es
INK wblie she rr-alasf t1s cgurays a,5 I
-ti ssrfuiness which hzd ulalse her at.r.cffvs
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