Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-06-03
Story ofOne
Good Woman s
Life Work
BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Copyright, 1916, Star Company.


Our daily life teens with tales Of
sad bad and foolish women who
MAXI mistakes and do evil deeds, and
spoil thrr' own lIxes ard The lives OF
others
Bul in spite OF these o'rT-trur dark
tales, the world is starred with beau
tifnl sonlE, doing EezutTiul work in
the vineyard OF inc. Lord Here ~
the story OF onr mcnnaa VINO conse-
Grated her life 10 God through serr-
ICE to humanity be- Ta1me is Lucy
M Burd, and she, has m industrial
school in Bedminser.1- Pr.
To a friend who asked her for an
account OF her undertakings she
wrote the folloRInE Interesting let
ter 1t will be IN inspiration to all
who are striving against difficulties
to accomplish sorns worthy purpose:
Twelve years ago ] left Philadel-
phia with bog Of IL, who had nor
slept in a bed or eaten n a t1ble toV
two years My object WIS 1D start
home for unfortunate and 1n1Srnder-
stood children ! had neither money
nor interested friends to- heAp rnr.
we arrived al the taTIu cSn n cold
day, followed by colder might The
conditions were whal1 most people
would have thought we1L1tgh Trupos-
sible for the making OF q h@rns. |
had invested $50 IN furrit,urz, and
soon we had the cuzirsi rpun ] think
! ever saw.
There waB neither rich cp1ptt nor
costly furniturr-tnsa plain things
which meant home
"A man and HIS wiz Hgnd m one
end Of the farm home, bu. vacated
/. In a few weeks. This left the en-
tire house to us. The aownrr rived
IN Doylestown Hs loRnrd me the
house, a portion of ground and left
some stock at the t8ru for US The
little fellow root ritB1 interest in
everything; bfn ns-MhST of uB knew
how To milk sD We were obliged to
hire q girl from IeiEhboring farm
iO trHch M. H. scrun learned to milk
gnitn well and do tire work at the
tsgr-r
al first unr 'tGrs-s WAS open only
to juvenile court b1ys. IL only took
few weeks befnrc. we numbered
seventeen, and fben twenty, which
was all we cunld care irr.. We learned
to economize in every possible way.
| remember one TftfEe FELLOW, who did
the milking and Thought we were us
ing more milk fhRn he could afford to
let us have, suggested that we do
without milk on ON cEtmrHR1 1nr
week. Strange To say, every boy was
willing Al the same tfrnr he insisted
on the cats having their fnI share
This little fellow has since graduated
from the philadelphia Trades School
as an electrician
The FIRST year Was hard financial
struggle. AL we had t0 depend on
was little mnnry fhn1 few cd the
boys could pay, with srnRil IrnDunr
Of my own, TO provide food and cloth
ing, besides furnishing the hDnss- The
hoys became Interested IN Ell the
farm work and were anxious TO see
how much they could de-
AT the beginning Of the second
year we had the entire farm OF 10
acres. By this ttrne we had made
few friends, who contribursd some
thing. Whilr VIC did not have the
sneans To provide iraehcrs, NC found
ii most difficult, at times, to do the
work and keep the boys interested
Occasional runaways would result,
but they were always anxious to get
back, and would describe their trips
with the greatest interest. We have
now bought the farm and have the
privilege Of paying for It.
81 know you would like to know
more about the success of the work
There are two ways of measuring sue
cess. The one, Making a Life; the
other, Making a Living. Today, with
shrewd business ideas, one can make
living and accumulate great wealth
To make life requires finer work
manship, When the sun goes down
we have no bookkeeper able to bal
ance the profit and loss sheet, If
there is a deficit ii cannot be made up
by shaving a little here and a lithe
there Ii is lost forever.
"Only the other day | heard a man
say: If | had my time to go over,
how differently | would dol Show
ing us that a deficit when the day
closes means deficit when life ends.
Seven years ago little blue-eyed.
girl came 10 live with me.
She has been a great help in making
our home pleasant We had a great
deal to learn TO know how To live to-
gether and be happy She was able
to throw sunshine across The path of
many a little child Tonight she IS
this letter to you on the type
writer Tomorrow morning she goes
20 West Chester 10 enter the Normal
school We hope 10 have her come
back as a teacher for our school.
Surrey thts true story u more inter.
esting than many a great work 81 hc-
ton | wish ii might go straight 10
the heart OF some millionaire philans
,hropis' and bring 70 Lucy NJ, Rurd
The slroug financial support which
ier Splendid work deserves.
We can be what We will 20 be We
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