The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-20

evening ard worked diligently until near
! midnight, when one of them started for
| New York with the combined result OF
| the laoor of both. He worked in the New
York Office all day Sunday, with Mrs. Les
lie by his side, she keeping him at his task
with delicate lunches and sparkling cham
payne. For Two days she did not leave
the building, and on Monday night she he,G
the satisfaction of seeing her paper go to
press, profusely illustrated with scenes and
portraits descriptive of the assassination
Ii was the first publication of the kind
in the market ard ii ran three successive
editions.
But Frank Leslie needed money
woman offered to loan her $4,000, pro-
vided her lawyer would approve the loan.
But the lawyer would do nothing of the
sort A bright wornan's tongue, however.
won the day and the money She Dor
rowed the cash in the latter part of June,
ana was to return it in stated INSTALL
ments, the first of which, 5000 in amount,
was to be paid Nov. /. Two days before
that time Frank Leslie returned the full
sum of $4,000, with interest. The first
year following her husbands death she
paid off $4,000 of the Indebtedness of $780,
600 which she had accepted as a legacy.
Now, perhaps you don't wonder she has
been spoken of as one of the most remark
abe women in this country!
Did she accomplish this easily? Did the
money flow in upon her freely and of its
own accord? Why, bless your innocent
heart, money only flows freely in one di-
rection, and that is away from you. To
make Ii come towards you is like forcing
water to run up Lii. Frank Leslie told
| the narrator that during the year follow
| ing her husbands death-in which she
| paid off an indebtedness of $130,000-her
! total personal expenditures, after she had
| purchased a suit of mourning. were eX-
| actly $50. During that time" she said
| with a proud ring in her voice, Il lived
| in an attic with an uncarpeted floor and
| the window in the room was so high that
when I wished to look upon the sky
| had to climb upon chair. That Is the
way that success is wrested from the re-
| luctant hand. of Dame Fortune. Frank
| Leslie denied herself everything until she
had paid every dollar owing by her hus-
| band and then she erected a monument
| to his memory. 1t was only when these
| duties had been performed that the wo-
| man thought of herself. "All work and
no play makes Jack a dull boy" she SAID.
Now I'll treat myself" So she ran over
| 10 Europe, and there she presented her
| self with a $4,000 pair of diamond earrings
| that flashed from her head as she talked
| Think of a woman who can wear did-
| monds q carats in weight, which she has
bought with the fruits of her own labor!
Hard work and keen wits brought her
| success. Some of her husbands pubilca-
| tons she did not thoroughly approve Oh
| She stopped their issuance. A weekly pup
lished for boys, for instance, was prospe-
rous but she did not think 1t benehciai
| TO Young minds to be infamed with sensa-
tional literature. The boys weekly ceased
to be published. She watched every eX-
penditure of her business closely. She paid
$4,000 a year for binding. She thought she
| could save a portion of that sum, and sc
she started a binuery Of her own. 1t en-
ployed twenty girls and saved her $6,O0
year. She employed women whenever
she could in financial capacities. "A man
in his grand way may become a magnih-
cent embezzler," she said, but a woman
will never rise above being a petty pill
ferer." What word Of wisdom is con-
tanned in those words! She set her en-
ployes an example of industry, working
diligently every day from o'clock in the
morning until 4 o'clock in the afternoon
She wasted little time in social tasks re-
ceiving her friends at fixed times, but new
er attempting to take upon herself the re-
turn of visits. She became great trav-
eler, but even when away her mind wa.
directing the machinery of her great es.
adjustment No check was ever ISSUED
from 1t that she had not signed. She haC
400 men in her pay and employed 16 presses
to do her printing. The yearly expense
of her establishment increased to one ans
one-half millions of dollars represented
by eleven publications.
Surely the lot of such a woman was
most enviable. And yet she sighed re.
gretfuily. For what? OF course you nr5
surprised. You'll laugh when you are told
81 have to perform a mans duties" she
said to the narrator, without having q
mans pleasures. 1 can't. for instance
jump up from the dinner table and run
off to the theater whenever the notion sn
ters my head. l must arrange for it in
advance. / must invite people to accom-
pany me, and of course / must provide
an elaborate dinner for them and we must
all dress deliberately. How different is a
mans lot He can do just as he pleases
But-ah, poor mel cannot"
You must not get an idea from this OF
anything else that's been said that Frank
Leslie is either a masculine woman or
blue stocking. On the contrary, she is
very womaniy woman and a very loVablC
one. She might be called in all respects
beautiful, if her nose were of a less Ma.
poleonic cast. AS it is, it unquestionably
adds strength to her countenance. She 1,
one of the most brilliant conversational
lists one ever met; bright witty genia
and well informed. She is gracious anC
graceful, witty and wise; beautiful ant
bountiful. Imagine, if you can, a woman
with all these qualities, and yet a practi
cal person Of business affairs.
WHEELER MAKES a STATEMENT