Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-26

One day last week friend here in
New York said Come and have
tea with me at Mary Elizabeth'sv
And who is Mary Elizabeth, pray
tell?' ] asked.
"Oh, haven't you heard OF her tea
roomi but more particularly her
oandies?n ! confessed ] had not, but
was Quite willing to be Shown" and
the story of Mary Elizabeth and her
candy kitchen is one Of those little
stories from real life that has all the
charm of some tale of fiction. If she
was not known here and in her home
town in New York as a most charm
ing young girl who started her work
without business experience, without
capital, but with an idea. courage
and a sincere belief in human nature
and herself.
without belief in ourselves and onr
work we cannot get far in the world
Every success is built up around the
belief of some one person; so thus
candy kitchen has gradually devel-
oped until II is probably one of the
most talked of in the city.
When we entered the door of Mary
Elizabeth's we felt as though we had
left the commercial world far behind
and were in n place of ideals. where
the heart, the hand and the head
were all working together Very
pleasant blue-frocSed girls were In
attendance and we We're soon seated
at one of the white tables ! was go
Ing to say ready to be served, but
will have to confess the desire was
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White. white everywhere. The ef-
feet as whole of white walls AMI
posts. white tables with pine tops is
of the most exquisite cleanliness and
the most harm onious color scheme
that could be imagined. Dainty lunch
cloths, china of most artistic shape
and coloring and a few good pictures
on the walls. all these give you an
impression of wholesome beauty and
artistic feeling Immediately upon en-
tering the door
But we could not look about too
long as the dainty waitress was cour-
teously waiting for our order of tea,
and ] assure You that the tea was
hot, OF fine flavor and all the re-
naming food lived up to the feeling
of sincerity which impressed us as
we opened the door. Il must know
something of Mary Elizabeth" ] said
to my friend. so this is what | tound
out. thinking as | heard 1t perhaps In
many families there is some girl or
boy with an idea, who may just need
word OF encouragement to start out
and do things, in the simple but di~
rect way she has done it and With &c
all keeping the same sweet charming
manner as though she We're inviting
YOU TO her tea table in her own home
Mary Elizabeth is the eldest child in
a family of three sisters and q
| brother, who, with the mother, make
Up a firm in which each member
takes charge of that part of the work
10 which each seems best adapted
This daughter created her own enter
prise at the ge of 10, organized her
own scheme of business methods and
looks as though she was perfectly
happy in devoting all the long joy
GUS DAYS Of youth to the one vital
object of her exlstence-making her
| candy business and tea shop a sue
| cess. When a child she used to make
| candy at home to please the guests
| then the family fortune was swept
away and all realized something
must be DONE" and so she made
| her first pound of candies, put them
| into a box and wrote on 1t. Mary
| Elizabeth's Home Made Candies.
six orders came from this one box,
and that, they told me, was the real
beginning of the candy kitchen. and
so these people with their own strong
| ideals, accustomed to refinement,
have truly made their little shop a
delightful place. You seem to under
| stand it at a glance that they are
! deeply in earnest and You cannot
stand face to face with people who
are in earnest without giving a men
tai handshake without wishing them
| every success.
In the Office there{ are mullloned