El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-18
Bv Anita Stewart.

Copyright, 1915, International News
Service.
n PRACTICALLY every girl I know
Sis career-mad. and no matter how
good a home she has she wants to
leave it.
Everywhere I go girls back me I'D
and talk to be about capital ~C' ca
reers and fame and living their ou,n
lives. and the joys and freedom. and
having ones own latchkey. and all that
sort OF piffle until I've got what that
funny Mr. Tad calls an earfuIl.
and, mind you. nearly all Of these
girls are rich girls, with fine homes
and stacks Of good clothes, and automo-
piles, and they've never done a thing
IN their lives but amuse themselves and
have fun
They seem to think that for girl
10 go out into the world and make her
own way is Just some sort OF a rfppfnc
game - something that YOU can ac-
eomplish between times when you are
not having a perfectly mad time at pic
turesque Bohemian resorts
They think, poor little ears. that all
a woman writer does is to sit down
IN an idle moment and dash off some
thing over which the publishers fight
ana Tor winch she gets a fabulous sum.
1hey think that business woman
saunters into the office alone. toward
the middle of the day and is taken ont
10 lunch by her fascinating millionaire
employer. who proposes to her over
And when 1t comes to being an actress
tney picture that as a grand ground
o. applause and flowers and cham
P pas. suppers after the play
me oareer As II Is and as 1t Seems
Home was never like this. and so
II no wonder that fluffy headed little
5 SlIIs want to rush into thing that
looks SO good from the outside, but is.
IN reality, so hard on the inside.
BeheTe me, girls. a career as Won
thlnk II and career as il is are
no more alike than a setting on fbs
stage is like the real thing The Ho-
man who achieves any kind of a career
who even makes a living for herself
does II through such labor. such wea-
rlneSS, such Sarifices- and a crucifvins-
OF every taste and inclination as Won
nave never even imagined in all your
soft little lives.
It seems TO you very wonderful to be
a moving picture star. II does TO me
100, Tor 1 love my work and am will
ling to pay the price il exacts hut n
you Imagine il a bed of roses Won
nave another guess And then some
How would you like. for instance.
on Ditter cold winter day with icicles
ranging 10 every twig, to go forth
through which the wind whistIed and
the colo bit and spend six hours at A
streIch riding on slow moving don
Yet. that is what I had to do when
the famous film for The Goddess was
being made, and when I got back 10
me Motel / was so nearly frozen that
l had TO be lifted down and carried into
the house and rubbed with alcohol TO
restore the circulation
In that same film. clad only in God
dess ralment and with sandals on my
Ieet' 1 had to climb a mountain and
1 went Soobing with the pain and the
cold until my tears washed off my
makeup.
another time in the Million Dollar
BID 1iim was on a yacht that
was wrecked in the bay by being run
down by another boat and was
thrown out in the water. This reel
was made about Thanksgiving time
ana the water was so cold when I
Jumped into IL that IL simply paralyzei ;
me, and 1 would have been drowned I
except for the professional life saver /
We always carry along for such euer-
gencies
just an Idea Of the Price of Career.
And on the other hand many is l
the time I have thought that I would 4
certainly die Of heat prostration when /
through long. hot. muggy DAYS we i
made thrilling pictures of snowstorms I
IN august IN studio where the tenn 4
oerature was above the boiling point, /
and had to be appropriately dressed /
in sealskin.
That's just a little bit Of what /
- ~ - III Clsh - the price OF
ny career, and have friends who are
writing women and business women,
and know tthat they buy their sue
sess Just as dearly as I do mine. There
s no easy success II comes as hard as
Heath.
Girls Little Realize What a Career
Means.
II girls knew how much work. how
much sacrifice. how much grit and
rom those properly belonging TO Saint
Nicholas Of Bari-as he is called to
lisrine-rrlsh hin, I'm, 81 -. -