The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-18

girl remarked: II guess the only thing to
do is to write for the magazines. / should
think any one who can write such lovely
poetry as you ought not to have any trou-
bic about making a living" This remark,
however, instead of consoling, made her
feel worse; at this crisis her Christian
the money she had received for her verses
and found that 1t amounted to forty-three
dollars! In ten years. forty-three dollars!
She decided that she'd write some more
articles and send them to the religious
weeklies that she had been used to reading
at home. She thought she knew the kind
of work they wanted and could do as we'll
as some of the writers who often had ar
tcles published in it. That night she wrote
description of the old church in her viii
lage 1t had often been admired by summer
visitors, and one of them, an artist said
1t was as picturesque as anything he had
seen in Europe. In week she received
check for three dollars for it. When the
proof came she took it back herself in order
to meet the editor and ask him for advice.
He complimented the article and said that
he liked it particularly because it was writ
ten with very nice touch She didn't
know just what that meant, but it encour-
aged her to tell him her story. When she
had finished he said slowly: "It is very
hard to live by writing, very hard-especial-
ly for woman. Isn't there anything else
you can do?" She replied that she hadn't
been able to think CT anything else, and for
long time he was silent and thoughtful
Then he said: "A little woman who writes
a column for us, What is Going On in the
ChurcheS'-perhapS you know tits going
to get married and we shall want some one
to do her work Tt doesn't pay much, but it's
easy Three dollars week." he concluded
with deprecating lift of his eyebrows, as
If ashamed.
She was afraid that her voice and man.
ner betrayed too much qualification. ''Of
course, I'm not at all sure | can do it," she
ADDED modestly. ooh, l guess that'll be all
right, " he said with a sigh, as # load had
on Wednesday night so that we can have it
the first thing on Thursday.
For three years she conducted the depart
ment and she also developed facility in
writing such articles as 'Hints for Moth
dies Gazette How to Keep the Home
Cheerful" and "A Wife's First Duty" She
ADDED to her income. too. by writing simple
little poems, usually for young people
wholly different from the poems she had
written when a girl. She is past forty now
and her face is marked with fine lines; but
she is so slight and trim that at a distance
of few feet she could pass for twenty-five
She has a miniature apartment in a great
beehive of place in upper New York where
hundreds of writers and artists and ac-
tresses live, and she prepares her own
meals. She knows a great many people:
she belongs to several womenS clubs and
during the winter she has days at home
ard she often gives teas to introduce friends
from out of town, usually sister-journalists.
People say 1t Is quite wonderful the way
size keeps up and always seems cheerful.
Those who know her best say it is be-
cause she gets such help from Christian
science. At present she is very happy, for
a publisher asked her the other day to make
to let him bring 1t out as Christmas book.
If Hints for Mothers is a success she in
tends to follow ii up with a little book
called Help for Everyday" in which the
philosophy of Christian science will be APP
piled to the petty vexations that make so
large a mart of W0manS life.