The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-12-08


sePibes In an
#S%A amusing way the
IN &2MSWA experience Of q
Is XIV #&% | year ut FFultlands,
saGS2@E where IN attempt
was made to es-
Ablash ~ ideal community. Miss AlcOtt
was obliged to be = wage Garner to
help cat the family income, and 20
Nught school, served ~ q governess
and ut times worked ~ . seams trcss.
Wearyiag Of this, she wrote for the
paDefs steRles Of = sensational nature.
which were renuneFatlve financially
but unsatisfactory to her ~ . literary
esrsuit. and she 4sandeaed this style
u writing.
n : WashinstoA hospital sAe served
- . nuEse for . Sine. but the work
WAS - hard that 6Aes failed In health.
an1 when she recovered she had to nnd
asw AelAs Of works then she Travelled
- attendant 70 ~ invalid, and with
her visited Europss
After several attempts At literature
Misc Alc0tt wrote ~Little Women"
which was m immediate success, reach.
lAg . sale of $1,000 copies In three
veaFo. She wrote from the heart, and
WovN into the story lncldents from the
0vea Of herself and her three sisters
q Concord. she afterward wrote IAN
Old Fashloned GIRL" "Iittle Men,
sAunt Je's Scrap Bag" ATAs Eight
C0uslnsS and ~RoDe In BloOn,~ besides
. stheR stories and sketches.
n, Miss A1c0tt had ambition and ability
or High grade Of literary works she
Made her success ~ q writer Of chill
lren's stories. While her receipts from
iome later work were large for those
lmes, she declared that she was more
'reud Of the Arst ga she received than
4 the larger amounts later.
I 0nA RAnnpntlmA altar nAMtAnp ~
'eung readers AnAs pleasure In Miss Al
ett's CHEEKY, Aealthfnl stories, and
heir vitality II Indicated by their ap-
leaFanee On the movie screen.
IN their old-fashioned New England
home the little women lived with
Mrs. March. their brisk and CHEEKY
pother. who always had "can-I-help
iou'' look about her. and whom her
bur girls lovingly called "Marmee."
n Pretty Meg, the oldest. was sixteen,
bid already showed domestic tastes
hd talents, though she detested the
udgery OF household work; and, a
ftle vain Of her white hands, longed
heart to be fine lady. 10. fifteen,
hs tall. thin and coltish, and gloried
3. IN unconcealed scorn OF polite con-
- sntions. Beth, thirteen, was q low
.s.1le little thing, shy. fond Of her dolls
nd devoted to music. which she tried
Spefully to produce from the old.
.-hsling tinpan Of a piano. Amy.
.yelve. considered herself the flower
~ the family. An adorable blonde
10 admitted that the trial Of her life
- 10 her nose. For. when she was a
Ttby, 10 had accidentally dropped her
ITO the coal-hod and permanently
l alttened that feature, and though poor
T}my slept with patent clothespin
rrnching II. she couldn't attain the
fecian effect she 30 much desired.
Father March was an army chap
i. In In the Civil war. and In his alb
,nce 10 declared herself to be the
m Of the family. To add to their
ender income. she went every day to
sad to Aunt March, a peppery old
.dy; and Meg. too, earned a small
llary a. daily nursery governess to
neighbours children.
In the big house next door to the
tarches lived q rich old gentleman,
r.. Laurence. and his grandson, a
,lly chummy boy called Laurie.
'hough awe-inspiring at first. Mr..
laurence proved both kindly and gen.
:rous, and even timid Beth mustered
% courage to go over to the "Palace
beautiful" at twilight and play. softly
, n the grand plano there. But. as she
confessed to her mother, when she be-
Nan she was so frightened her feet
Shattered on the floor.
q The night Laurie took the two older
Eirls to the theater. Amy, though not
invited, insisted on going. too. Jo
1&rossly declared she wouldn't 60 II
Amy did, and furiOusly scolding hel
f(ittle sister, she slammed the door and
event of, as Amy called out: you'll
the sorry for this. 10 march, See II
Ton ANTI" The child made good hei
skhreat by burning up the manuscript
Ut q precious book which 10 had writ
ken ana on which she had spent three
years Of hard work. There was ter
lkible fracas, and, though at her moth
hrs bidding Amy made contrite apol
sbgy. 10 refused to be pacified. 1t wal
1bnly when poor little Amy was neari!
|(drowned by falling through the ic'
that conscience-stricken 10 forgave ne
- <2<~<4' H<>e.