The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-30
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to play. They have an idea that there
is a quick road to mountain tops, if
one can only find the way.
They learn in time, if they remain
in the field, that success built on any
but solid foundations, is no success at
all, and that truth must prevail in this
as in every other purpose of life.
The Bachelor Girls Homes.
The home question the bachelor girl
disposes of at first by settling in a
boarding house. life that is drearier
than any other in a city. She moves
in an atmosphere of art that gives
her a certain glamor to others as we'll
as herself. If it were all a joke, the
girl who could afford it would find
plenty of real enjoyment out of this
debut in professional life.
In a short time the boarding house
proves uncongenial, and the girl bach
elor fees to the studio building, which
is not always as comfortable even as
the hall bedroom that she leaves. But
there is freedom in the new plan, and
sometimes a restaurant in the building
does away with the necessity for
cooking meals.
These makeshift homes are always
attractive in their unconventional fur
nishing. Life in this fashion is pic
turesque, but it is an odd Bohemian
existence that the business girl gives
UP for a small apartment as soon as
she feels that she can afford the dig
nifty of a real home.
But before she reaches this point
she has serious work before her. filed
with discouragementS and diSapopint-
ments under which none but a sturdy
spirit can endure. 1t is unfair to paint
rose-colored pictures of the struggle
that women find in their first attempts
to gain a footing in the professions.
Nothing worth while is gained with
out effort, and the spurious successes
of the stage, of literature, and other
walks, where results are obtained by
certain forms of booming, fall to the
earth like punctured balloons when
their brief authority is over.
Masculine characteristics Demanded
The fact that such successes are man.
ufactured and maintained with appar-
ent security is one of the severest trials
that the girl, working legitimately, will
have to contend with. People talk and
write of the temptations of dramatic
life, but the fact is, that the stage is
no more filled with such opportunities
than other vocations. The right-mind-
ed girl will learn to value success prop
erly as she advances, and while her
progress may seem slow it will be the
surer.
So it Is not the difficulty in obtain
ing employment. the poor rate OF
wages, or the drudgery of toll that
prove the real obstacles in the path
of the strenuous girl. The chief trou-
Bile will be the constant demands upon
her for qualities of character that are
rare in women-the. same qualities
which make the successful man. Wo-
n M .1hyciCa " GffnI >,
work-a-day world. but for the home
life, and the most eminent of women
lawyers, doctors and actors are always
women whose health has enabled them
to stand the strain.
The Girl with the Hardest Row.
Perhaps the girl with the hardest
row to hoe is the young woman with
voice. She gains some fame and
reputation at home in a church choir
perhaps and, spurred on by stories OF
sudden fame, she comes to town with
the notion that she will become a Calye
a Melba. or Patti. She may have q
good but not powerful voice, and she
begins her task of finding a hearing
The singing girl has always a peculiar
mental caliber and big ideas. She
ends by taking place in a choir OF
else she joins the chorus.
The girl reporter who begins at the
foot of the ladder has to work right
well in order to make a living. She
must work In all weathers, must sleer
ana eat irregularly and lose much OF
her sensitive refinement in the inevita.
BILE contact with all sorts and condi-
tons OF men.
The girl typewriter, the young wo-
man who decorates china. and she who
makes cotillion favors, all have their
own troubles. great and small Some
lines OF work are more sheltered than
others, and these are by far the most
desirable
There II no high road 10 success, and,
often as this Is written, II cannot be
repeated too often. When YOU hear a
woman state that she has never expe-
fleneed any Of the haFdshlps and dis
Illusions of life IN her work. whatever
y uay Pc you may be sure that she
u utterlng faiFeho0d. some women
MAKE practice Of writing ana speak.