The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-01-30
WHY GIRLS SHOULD
LEARN SOME TRADE
One Who Has Won Fortune
for Herself Gives Some
Timely Advice and Informal
lion of Her Sisters
,..-.r iii shoull learn Il ualr.

Sis ~. N,nIf tells how Stittt>> iliH -"
w"n in 81 business peculiarly Mttd ipE N'
Every girl Ia this day of ra:idlS-Vo
srdl"nly-ioet fortunes ought /" learn 4
trade, rr-I"ot herself IN All arr or nav
sonc business. d. Il Hart Of ii"f hrin-lii-
M: the success of VIII 90 IL :Iioise titao-
lred by the Geld cash t can command.
't."l the ! tue royalties ar" tansut 70
Dc Wolf, Formerly society girl, then actress
ana nov household decorator OF success
50 phpno,utnal that goa look ahou' npr
office fuii OF antiques Tor III" ->i'"o'n
lamp.
"Ent q lady has t" choose lady-i,Se
work. l iut.rpoSed.
THAT'S rot and you know it. This is
the era Of woman. she eau even drive an
on zine. if she respects herself and lose 10
pre8t &c. Character and breed ng are IN
j,rte: enc kiui Of work can not bestoW
;h-m and the opposite sort take them
away.
II was an actress for thirteen years and
think the stage a splendid career for 4
woman. had a respectable but not a
br!il ant success. AS q giri, ! Went nv"
society mostly in London and Paris, where
did dru wirG-rOom thcatrlraiS Tor 1ult.
when my father lost his fortune. | had
10 choose either work or to be that mos,
pitiab,c OF all CreatureS-G little sister or
The rich. l have known many such
hangers nn--of weather. friends who have
no use for them, or Of more preprosperous
relatives who treat them like heSgars. Nat
NAN4i. tGih'A w
| could find 1t was the stage
But even "a q girl without q care, l
dreamed Of the time when l would make
money and Il lot OF 1t by my own efforts.
After ! became an actress. | thought the
theatre would bring it to me, hut it didn't,
Ny dream has been fulfilled as all our
dream are, but In unforeseen ways
What made you Z We up the stage
"AA I told you. I was only a ia 7 sue
cess. did drawing room parts and
earned Il good salary. But younger wOmeT
Enrp rrftiOV ahead nc ms am not ipp1
ous by nature no one is Of marked in
dividuality. but l felt myself growing EN-
Uttered. wanted to go higher fel
way down ~ me there was ability to a.
scratching bigger than I could ever d
on the stage, but just what that some
thing was-i couldn't sec for the INST 0
uncertainty about IT,
pinero's Wife Without q Smile Is
turned to the audience to say my fare
well word IN the play, an inner vote
We hear thtngs-'you have said your las
line for the last time, and when l &c
10 my dressing room. 1t continued to wis
per. close your makeup box. you won
use II any more" And l answered, "a
right and walked out Of the theatre an
never entered it again"
NJ friends had been Urging me
ieave the stage aud go in for househol
decorations. but l couldn't decide. Yr
see l had others dependent upon me al
or naa IA the ghost OF a training at tn
~""S ~ 'hly q X" NApCI
were doing successfully. My friends ne
sisted, promising me The Colony Club
d. Decorate to try my hand. Such faith ga
me confidence. I had always been able
have charm ng houses out OF nothing-h
to after we lost our money. Now / knt
nh was my natural forte-f"r I think
chihtz. How do You create a room
II can't tell: not that it's a trade secret
but 90 You thinS anyone can analyzc
SEPARATION: l study the personality OF t
1cC',nant some-Ethel Barrymore q
I'll n6N ~ yNp nc iEos~~
they are. While I am look ng at an emf
suite or corridor, the decoration Of
walls, turn ture, everything takes form
my mind even to the minutest detail.
can see just the kind Of tea pot that m,
he used In a dining room at the "a
walls"
Interior decorating is essentially :
mans work. n;ne-tenths OF it beng
- net. 1t is as natural for a WOMAN
want TO make her home beautiful as
nunrh hsr person. cant understand W
note women don't go into it. Granted
.tatnrai gift and some supplemental stu
mere IS a splendid opportunity for m:
am "1 nn; !" express herself lncratively
ani nor hee. on the self expression +
counts for nothing. What tn, world wn,
is willing to pay for"
vu,a fo abroad every year to rest in
villa III versailles aud then to travel
set new ideas and absorb. But art
never so promising rs il is in America
nins uon ms ARE n frnly having a Renaissa
allie II n
NAL period, we sank into a decadence
ciudty-can you remember tho M
horSe-ha'r atrocities and the plush Sol
Now you find IN the most modest on
ments or bungalows evidences Of the r
cultivated taste; for taste is MOI do
dent upon money. On the contrary. I
inclined to believe the lack Of it, by E,
ing you look before you leap. tend
make your home more and more the
,iuct Of conscious thought and scle,
ann that is taste.
but how can an average hons,
acquire 4 keener sense of the beaut
'Eas'ly-let her sweep out all her
tcrings-the hcirlooms first OF all,
things of sent mental valuc-I wou
have 4 Sargent in a room, if it Il
feiOn" there. It's Immoral to have
thing around unles, it harmonizes
everything else: then t may be usef'
only beautiful for beauty is the supre
utility. Let her have only a few Il
and those simple. 60 IN for c
rather than stuffy draperieS.'
IL mink We we'll might cnnY TIE =.