Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-01
FORGErS SOCIETY AND MEN.
Millionaire's Daughter Now Earning
Fifteen Dollars a Week.

society and business that there is be-
tween meat and cream puffs." So says
Miss Elsie Farrell, the youngest, fairest
and favorite daughter of Franklin Far
rel twenty times millionaire and one
Of the richest men in New England,
who has gone into actual training to
fit herself to succeed him in the man
agement of his iron foundry business
enterprises.
She has become his typewriter at SIS
a week while she is learning the bus!-
ness and perfecting herself in the me-
chanical art Of casting, founding,
smelling and rolling.
Miss Elsie Farrell is ono Of the pref
tiest girls in Connecticut. She is like
wise one OF the cleverest. She is 81.
At 1919 she was graduated from Ogontz
She won some of the highest honors
bestowed by that Fashionable school
And she is heiress to a fifth perhaps
more, of her fathers $4,000 600
From all of which it may be inferred
that Miss Elsie Farrell is fitted to grace
society. This she has done since she
burst the schoolgirl chrysallis at Og-
ontz eighteen months ago. She
reigns by all the rights of belledom at
Ansona. She is almost equally belle
in New Haven, where her sister, Mrs.
George Bryant, lives. She is a welcome
visitor to the exclusive sets of New
York
But eighteen months of the priv
leges of society which her endowments
have brought her have wearied Miss
Elise. She has said, with a tilt of her
determined little chin and a tighten
ing of her lips that she is tired of it
all and would rather go into business
with papa.
Papa" in this instance is one of the
great men of New England He is the
president Of big Ansonia foundry
and machine company and his man
sion, on the brow of hill overlooking
that city, is one Of the finest of the
modern palaces on the southern side of
the state of Connecticut.
When Miss Farrell learned that her
fathers private secretary had given
notice that he would leave for another
post in Boston in sixty days she APP
piled for the position. Mr.. Farrell dis
guised his pleasure with such gravity
as he might.
My private secretary must be
stenographer, he said.
''She shall be-" said Miss Elise Far
rel.
The next day she was student in n
business college. She took a hurry
up" course and when the private sec
rotary went to Boston she was in
stalled in his place. Her employer
says he finds the new hand" satisfac-
tory.
Last Tuesday she drew her first
weeks salary. 1t was SIS
II am prouder of that than of my d-
ploma," she said
Meanwhile Miss Farrell goes to the
Office at and works until }. She dous
black satcen apron to protect her
dress and slips on black calico sleeves
to cover those of her gown.
Then she opens and asserts the mail.
Her father dictates his replies to the
letters and she struggles valiantly with
the pothooks. She transcribes and adj
dresses the letters and sends them
downstairs for mailing. She keeps her
fathers private accounts and memoir
anda. She looks over the big office
ledger every day She drafts circulars
and mails them to patrons. She takes
notes of meetings of the officers of the
company.
There was Il headache after the first
day at the office and some warning
symptoms of one after the second Miss
Farrell sought rest in her pretty rose
room and unused on the multiple activ-
tiles of the business world.
On the third evening she drove her
big bay horse Dandy and her light rub
bertired runabout into the country.
She drove SO fast and determinedly
that the headache demon fled and
hasn't made his appearance since
She has Cancelled all her social en-
gagements. She has withdrawn from
the whist club and resigned from the
Fortnightly Dancing CLUB. Her mother
and sister Miss Adele Farrell, receive
alone on their days at home.
Where is Miss Elise" is every
where asked, and always the answer is
the same-'At the office
She declines all invitations 10
luncheon and teas and afternoon re-
ceptions because these occur during
business hours. She accepts dinner in
vitatons reluctantly, because they
curtail her afternoon business drive"
which she says 'smooths away bust
ness wrinkles" AS for evening recep-
tons, she protests against them be-
ause "a girl can't dance and t1irt half
the night and be fresh for business in
the morning"
So Miss Farrell has really turned her
back upon the society she has wearied