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II is the habit Of ambitious young
women singers, artists, actresses and
newspaper writer's the country over to
long with all their souls to come to
New York and live. To them it is the
kingdom come of their hopes and aspi-
rations. They cannot be blamed for
this, because New York is the heart Of
hustling America. Life in the large is
there In oil It's varieties. But the girls
outside picture to themselves an exist
ence In New York made up Of excite
ment and pleasure. going to theater,
enjoying little suppers where wit and
merriment abound, sitting up late
nights and having time to lie abed cor
respondlngly of mornings. Now, this Is
q gorgeous and picturesque mistake.
Not country schoolmistress In the
land leads a simpler, more regular life
than the really working woman artist
or journalist in New York. She is
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business. II the newspaper woman
works in the daytime, she spends her
evenings at home, goes to bed early
and gets up early. She must take the
best possible care Of her health that
she may be In condition for her task.
Illness and headaches mean losing her
place. II she writes at night, she I'm
ishes her office labors and steals home
In the small hours to rest l have
known several newspaper women who
practically hid themselves away and
did not tell their friends where they
lived that they might not be hindered
by social demands. To them visitors
were like vampires. There was one
girl-a brilliant soul she was. artist and
writer both-who tried to accomplish
her work and have a gay social exist
ence too. She burned life's candle at
both ends. and 1t was snuffed out.
Death stepped In and snapped of one
of the most promising careers In Amer
lea. The gay. pleasuresome life Of the
real actresses. artists and newspaper
women Of New York Is to be found
only in the Imagination of people who
do not know them. They lead the most
humdrum. laborious existence imagina-
BILE.
The poor girl who must work for her
living believes she would have nothing
left to wish for II she were a rich girl
and had only to dress In the mode and
pursue fashionable amusements. The
rich girl on her part, particularly II she
has much sense. pines for the inde-
pendence and larger life which earning
her own living would give her. And
who is happy?
Here is good story of frail weak
woman: Miss Lottie Pollion Of New
York was walking in an unfrequented
part Of Central park recently. Sudden
ly two rowdies sprang up in front of
her. One Of them tolo her she was too
pretty to be walking alone. and he seiz-
ed her arm. Next minute he lay sprawl
ing upon the walk. 1t was not the fist
Of a chivalrous man stranger who ap-
| peared at the exact moment and knock
ed him there. 1t was Miss Pollion's
own fist that did II. The other fellow,
seeing his comrade fall was mad as a
hornet and rushed upon her with up
lifted arm. She lodged him and landed
a blow In his solar plexus. He turned
and ran. believing, from the scene. By
that time rowdy No. had picked him
self up. He could not believe he had
been thrashed and came at the girl
again. This time she made him know
1t for sure. and he. too. ran as If the
| hends pursued him. Then Miss Pollion
went home. The explanation was that
she had taken boxing lessons and was
the woman champion In that field.
Fifteen years ago an impecunious
dressmaker In Salt Lake invested her
little savings In some mining proper
| ties. They turned out rich, and the
dressmaker became wealthy enough to
| give her sister 100000 wedding
when that young lady was married re-
| Gently. That Is not all Of the tale. The
rest OF 1t Is that where one person is
lucky In mining investments q hundred
come to grief.
New York city. SO far as the woman
| question Is concerned. Is probably the
most conservative town north Of Ma
son and DiXon's line. yet within and
around II today are actively practicing
women lawyers enough to form q
thriving and lively club of their own.
Two enterprising young New Jersey
women, Miss Frances L. Campbell and
Miss Elizabeth Schneider. have started
poultry farm to furnish fresh eggs
| regularly to people who can pay for
| them. The girls have wisely chosen
the White Leghorn breed for their egg
stock. Women can do well In the
| peighborhood Of any good market In
| the chicken and egg business II they
| manage carefully and learn as they 60.
| The average hen yields profit Of $l.50
A year. There Ii many q girl who Is
not worth that much.
Many women build their characters
ms people do their houses. with strict
view to its appearance OH the outside.
Miss Grace Kennedy. commissioner
| Of the court of claims In Santa Fe. is
| studying law. There Is n real boom in
young women law students. They are
thronglng into the legal profession
much the same as women did into the
medical field a generation ago after
Elizabeth Blackwell showed them how
It could be done. The girls are not.
however, much attracted toward the