Connecticut western news., 1920-12-02

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 was made to es- anbsksh an ideal community. Miss AIcott r. obliged to be a wage eaxner to he1n out the family income, and so n~ght school served . governess nmd at times worked as R seamstress. weary1nE of this, she wrote for the D3Uexs stories of e sensational nature, WA6cA were remunerative financially h@e unsatisfactory to, her as a literary 11suit, and she abandoned this style - writing. Fin . Washington hospital she served = a nurse for a time, but the work
 - sO hard that she failed in health, n1& when she recovered she had to And Nw nelds of wori<J then she travelled atten0an1s sFo an tnvMi0, and wtfh A1 visfted Europe.
 After several attempts at literature m6s AlcOtt wrote Little Women,o wa6sA was am tmm edintes success, reach- tnE e sale of S1, ,0A0 copies i'm three y1srs. She wrote from the heart, and Wxve into the story incidents from the Dvss of herself and her three sisters ea Concord. She afterward wrote "An N3& Fashioned Girl," 'Little Men," -zunt Jos Scrap Bag," "The Eight Csusfnso and "ROse in B1oom," besides sAker stories and sketches.
 Miss AIcott had ambition and ability ssw high grade of literary work; she Eske her success as a writer of chill dssn's stories. While her receipts from w~we later work were large for those aa.es, she declared that she was more rnoMd of the first $32 she received thnn s6 me larger amounts later.
 0me generation after another of y~ng readers finds pleasure fin Miss AL smtps cheery, healthful stories, and a1Ear vitality fs indicated by their ap- 1zxrance on the movie screen.
 IN their eld-fashioned New England
 home the little women lived with
 Mrs. March, their brisk and cAesy Hnxher. who always had ~&2-E-AsAe yUu' look about her, anA wAs@ hne fgur girls lovingly called "NarmsA"
 Pretty Meg, the oldest, was sixtssa. md already showed domestic tastes EH2 talents, though she detested the xxUdgery of household work; and, a NssBs vain of her white hands, longed 1d heart to be a fine lady. Jo, fifteen, vsaS. tall, thin and coltish, and gloried fx an unconcealed scorn of polite con- venAions. Beth, thirteen, was a low ahEe little thing, shy, fond of her dolls md devoted to music, which she tried hsQefully to produce from the old, Jrgling tinpan of a piano. Amy, a9 the family. An adorable blonde, sAe admitted that the trial of her life wns her nose. For, when she was a hasy, 10 had accidentally dropped her izee the coal-hod and permanently Hkstened that feature, and though poor Amy slapt with patent clothespin panching it, she couldn't attain the Esecian effect she so much desired.
 Eather March was an army chap aaiD in the Civil war, and in his ab- ae8ee 10 declared herself to be the MmR of the family. To add to their sAeziler income, she went every day to nesA to Aunt March, a peppery old &ad5; and Meg, too, earned small saary as daily nursery governess to a Reighbor's children.
 M the big house next door to the Marches lived a rich old gentleman, Mk- Laurence, and his grandson, a 1hRy chummy boy called Laurie. Iheugh awe-inspiring at first, MT. LAnrence proved both kindly and gen. ssxus, and even timid Beth mustered ID courage to go over to the Palace DsautffuT' at twilight and play softly m the grand piano there. But, as she znfessed to her mother, when she be- rzn she was so frightened her feet shattered on the floor.
 Dfie night Laurie took the two older xhss to thet ttheaters Amy, though not EsWfrsd, insisted on going, too. To rzsssly declared she wouldn't go if Amy did, and furiously scolding her HuNHSaster. siaessiammed the door and mznt of, as Amy called out: "You'n heAsorry for this. Jo, Marchl See if SuR ain'tw The child made good her Hnreatshy burning up the manuscript IT q precious book which, 10 had writ. am and Lon which she hadt spent threef szzrs.df hapd work There was ter rifle fracas, and, though at her moth- pa1R bidding Amy made contrate- apol-' ay; To refused to be pacified. It was n1H when poor little Amy was nearly dkuwfsd by. failing through the ice