The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-22
TO, THE GIRL WHO HAS
 MET WITH FAILURES

Let what write be message Soine soul in its stress to reach,
 To bind OCT the wound of failure the balm of pitying speech,
 To whisper, Be up and doing, TOT courage at last prevails.
 sing to those who have supped witn
 Failure, I sing to the one who fails"
 Because a woman appears to nave
 climbed high in her chosen calling IS by no means proof positive that sne has always had clear sailing, encoun- tering no trials, snares, pitfalls or heartaches.
 It is the girl who chooses a career who challenges rebuffs, ennity and the tossing of thorns along her path | If her ambition is greater by far than her powers of accomplishment, suc-
 cess eludes ther. . There arc some natures that lose confidence at the first setback. Others simply refuse to encourage dlsap- pointment No matter how many
 times they fail their zeal is undaunt- ed. One hears of the few successful
 women in every line of feminine en-
 deavor, but, never hear of the count less thousands who have failed.
 Determination to overcome all ob-
 stacles is the principal cog in the
 wheel of success. One of the worlds greatest actresses once told me she encountered nothing but failures, one following the other, during the first ten years of her striving to grasp sue cess. If an especially good part fell to her lot it was sure to be cut out or transferred to another at the first re- hearsal, though she had done her very best in interpreting it. Her, folks begged her to leave the stage and go to dressmaking or any honest employ ment where she was sure of getting her board money at the end of the week. When least expected, success, tAe reward of perseverance, against all obstacles, perched upon her banner The world speaks of her as though she had always diped on rose leaves and honey. she who ate the bitterest black bread of despair so many years. re- fusing to give up her grip upon hope no matter how it fouted her.
 Another, famous as an amateur, told me she had written studiously seven years, sending the products of her pen
 to every publication she could learn
 the name of, ere she succeeded in
 touching the heart of an editor suffi-
 ciently to cause him even to glance
 over her efforts. He accepted a four
 line joke then, sending her for the
 same-his thanks! Out of 25 books she
 lapored tover so zealously during those
 seven years not one ever found a pub
 fisher to see the light of day. In a flt
 of grief she fed them to the furnace. The irresistible desire came to het
 later to write the twenty-sixth book, and io! the literary powers that be,
 with one accord, claimed it to be a masterpiece. She has been able to earn her bread and butter, and occa- sionally a little jam on 1t, ever since
 by her pen pushed along by a prese- verance that would not open the door
 to failure no matter how hard he coughed outside in order to make his near presence known.
 A woman buyer in a large depart ment store who is accredited with re- ceiving a Nsalary of several thousand dollars perA year had this to say: '.I started right here as a cash girl
 sHubbed and sneered at by my com
 panions, who felt above me, for my
 toes were wont to peep out of the
 holes in my shoes. It was their jeers
 that made me resolve to rise I kept
 myself neat and trim and was sc pleasant with the customers and SC eager to have my book show up sales that encountered the jealously of the girls who worked with me. Every thing that went wrong was laid to me IT was discharged in consequence from so many good places I hardly like tc enumerate them. still I kept up heart and courage. simply would not ac- lcept defeat. My i'll luck fell from me like an old garment when I secured thi splace. The girl who succeeds must not take her failures to heart"