The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-18
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hood Suggestive Hint to Others.
Annie Jenner. pretty seventeen
year-old girl Of this city has solved the
problem Of existence for herself in a
very comfortable way, and her success
is full of suggestions to other women
who arc asking themselves the harrow
ing question, What shall do to make
living?' Annie and two others,
crippled girl Of fifteen and . boy Of
twelve, were left orphans q few months
ago with nothing but little cottage
near great railroad station that they
could call their own. Annie was deep
" anxions to keep the children tngeth-
er, and it was while pondering the
problem the suggestion came. The
crippled sister. whose fingers were very
skillful and whose taste was good, was
set at work with old flower baskets or
fruit baskets ornamenting them with
pretty knots of ribbon, or Frightening
them up with cheap dyes. Annie filled
the baskets with the daintiest and most
attractive of lunches laid in the folds OF
Japanese napkin. and with . tiny
bouquet of flowers in the corner; and
the little brother sold them down at the
depot, baskets and all, to the tired and
hungry people on the through trains.
What revelation those lunches were
to the travelling public, who had been
accustomed to the rough and unsightly
fare Of railroad eating houses. Why.
it was appetizing merely to look at
them. The baskets sold so rapidly
that Willie could not carry down
enough to supply the demand.
First he had an extra boy to
help him, then two boys, and now he
drives q pony and , pretty little road
wagon. and visits several of the depots.
Annie has hep in her kitchen, and her
sister has help about ornsmenting the
baskets, and the business is growing SO
rapidly that they will soon have to
move into larger quarters and have
more help. Yet it is pleasant to see
that Annie's success has not made her
less careful and painstaking than she
was at first. The lunches that she sends
out to-day are just rs attractive rs those
with which she tried the experiment
first. How many a woman might help
herself who now stands hesitating. ii
she would but 60 to work with the
courage and resolution of this young
girl!
1t is singular thing that nine-tenths
of the women who are left dependent on
their own resources will hy at once to
fancy work. No wonder that there are
so many wretched failures! OF course.
fancy work is very pretty and ladylik
but there are too many in the field al.
ready, and only the very best and most
artistic work pays II is but another
case Of the survival of the fittest and
amateurish efforts have but little
chance. True, here is one young lady
who has made great success Of hand
painted fans, and another who is in de-
mand as designer Of costumes for the
feminine portion of the four hundred;
but what chance would you have?
They are artists. and not every young
woman who can paint flowers on velvet
or decorate" plaque for her own
mantel is an artist. Better to make a
success with artistic lunches than to sit
and repine over ones failures at more
aristocratic employment.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.