The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-13


 She that makes che hurnb1est hearth
 Lovely to but one on earth
 Gan a working girl share her fu- ture as she will, or is she bound hand and foot, as it were, dependent upon luck to better her une-bring her love and raarriage-or withhold from her all that makes life worth living and getting while youth and good looks are hers?'' x
 This is the query which two won1en, one two-and- d-twenty, the other thirty eighb-both workers in a department store-ask me to help them solve. I cannot agree with those who believe. or say they believe, that all the good fortune which comes to one is the re- suit Of luck, for have seen so many girls who sit and wait idly for luck to come to them brushed aside by me girls who had ambition and pushed.
 One girl takes pains to make herself as attractive to the eye as her inita- tions of dress will permit. It costs nothing to do her hair up in curl pa- pers at night, brush her street hat and cloak ere she hangs them up; sew a rent in her dress or patch her gloves. Another young woman will Hing down her hat and coats trusting to find them somewhere in her mad rush to locate them on. the morrow. She doesn't bother with her hair No one sees
 
 phi1ospphizes.
 There she is inl error. The manager sees and notes her s1ipahod appear anee. Customers are not attracted to her. She looks what she is-despond- sent-as she steps out on the street. not go out of an evening. Al little in genuity might transform her extra black waist into a thing of beauty with but little cost, if her fingers were nInable. She win not make the at tempt She's tired enough without day dreams, hugging to her bosom the notion that if luck is to be hers it will come to her somehow, some time, and if lover is for her he will walk right up to the door on some business she does not know what. One girl has the ambition to dress herself tastefulIy and go out to visit her women friends Of an evening banishing from her mind how hard she has worked during the day. She Is not on the sharp lookout for loves tappToach, believing that 1ove and
 marriage are the aim of every wo-
 mans hopes. If she meets nice men while out in company she treats them l we'll but doesn't lose her beauty sleep
 in allowing her mind to dwell upon
 those who have shown no particular preference for her.
 k But when MT Right comes along. she recognizes his congeI1ialty, and Is lpleased to accept what the gods have
 provided 7and she has helped to dis icover-by visiting at her friends home looking so sweet, dainty and lovabIe.
 Their meeting was not luck, but re- suited from the fact that she helped l to make other girls evenings bright
 and eheery by visiting them, regard less of whom she might meet by so
 doing. HaIf Of the worlds mischief and
 sorrows arp caused by young women awaiting luck to come to them, to lift them out sof their dark, sordid sur lroundings into the sssnshine of pros- 1perfty, giving themselves up; body and souL as 1t were. to this mistaken mo- tion. It is well enough for artists to dream of their art and students to lcodd1e their theories Their day dreaming may be of wonderful ben it to mankind The girl who is an idle day dreamer of love has no such lgood reason to offer for the wasting of her time.
 In every line of endeavor all achieve txaents are worked out through en- ldeavor. earnest. hard work and push. Luck has no hand in it. Luck is a freed which no one can lean upon with lsafety-