Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-02-10
HER ADvERs|TY
 MEANT SUCCESS Mrs. Tabor Was Forced by Me- cessity to Learn Her
 Capabilities.
HAD TO BE A BREAD WINNER
Her knack for Making Excellent Can dy Proved to Be Her Financial Salvation and Now She Is
 Prosperous.
By RICHARD sPILLANE.


 A person rarely knows what he or she can do until a turn in the tide of life or some emergency brings out la tent energy or a quality undreamed of. It was so with Mrs. Tabor She is small and frail. Her husband is a Methodist minister. The wives of min- isters have none too easy an exis- tence. This is true particularly of the wives Of Methodist ministers, for their husbands are moved from one section of the country to another more than those of any other denomination.
 Mrs. Tabor, caring for her children, looking after her household duties and attending to the multitude of matters that keep minister's wife busy, had little time for anything else. Every hour of her day was crowded. If any one had asked her she would have said she could do no more
 Her husband had charge of church in Texas when the turn came in the current of her life. He was stricken with rheumatism They had very lit tie money and this went in doctors bills and for medicine in an effort to cure him. The doctors and the medi- cine availed little. Rev MT. Tabor got worse. The rheumatism became chronic and he required a great deal of attention.
 The members of the congregation were kind, but poor. Even if his par 1shioners had been able to support the invalid and his family, Doctor Tabor and his wife were not willing to be a burden upon them Texas was far away from Mrs. Tabor's home. In her trouble she wanted to be near her own people. Her mother lives in New Jersey. Mrs. Tabor somehow got enough money together to pay the railroad fares North and in due time the sick man and his wife and the two children arrived in Montclair, where Mrs Tabor's mother dwelt.
 Had to Make Money.
 The pleasure of getting home was great, but Mrs Tabor soon had to think of things that were of immedi- ate concern. Her mother was a wid- ow. with just enough income to live on and no more. The Tabors had a roof over their heads so long as they wished to make their home in the widows house, but not enough money to meet the bills of the butcher, the baker and the grocer. Then there were the items of clothes for the chil- dren and themselves and the medicine for the sufferer. By no method of economy could Mrs. Tabor make both ends meet. Somehow she had to make money. She had to become the breadwinner
 Thousands upon thousands of wom- en have faced the same problem A few succeed in solving it. Many fail. If Mrs. Tabor had been able to go out and work she might have been able to earn pittance, but she could not leave home for hours at stretch as her husband was helpless and needed her care. She could sew, but not we'll enough to support the family. She tried various other things without sue cess. Then, through an act of ex- travagance in which she indulged through love of her children, a way was opened to her.
 Down in Texas and in various parts of the West, where her husband had Mrs. Tabor had been in the habit at times of church fairs or church socials of making candy which was sold for the benefit of the church. Those who bought the candy never 9 ..eomsrnlained, 2. Most of them praised it.
 She had been in Montclair a month or two doing the best she could to earn money by working at home when one day the children begged her to make some candy. Three or four of their little friends had come to seei them and they, without knowing their mothers straitened circumstances, wanted to gladden. the visitors hearts with the-sweets that children love. Mrs. Tabor like all indulgent mothers, did not want to make her youngsters grieve. With sigh, she gathered her butter and sugar and things, lit the gas in the burner and went to work making candy.
 Boys and girls have wonderful appe- tites for sweet things but, luckily for Mrs. Tabor, she made more candy that day than the youngsters could eat Some of the visitors took the surplus home. Their fathers and mothers and sisters and brothers ate the candy and liked it so we'll that they asked where 1t came from and a few days later a woman called on Mrs. Tabor.
 I'm going to give party" she said Could I get you to make some candy for mel"
 Her Small Beginning.
 Mrs. Tabor never worked harder in her life than she did on that order One batch of candy that she cooked was oyerdone and had to be thrown away, but she made little money and was very happy.
 That party was great success. The guests ate the candy and praised it highly. Some of them asked the hos