Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-16

something special" although. in many cases, the thing seems so insignificant that the owner never thinks of accord ing 1t 8 commercial value No matter what its character, every ability has 3 1 commercial value.
 A musician has talent, an artist has talent clever writer has talent but 80 has the boy who blacks boots so well his customers choose him out of city ful; so has the woman who darns stock ings. GA lady came in my home with new pair of. silk stockings in her hand. and showed them to me, then she re- moved her shoe and showed me one Of the pair of stockings she had on her foot that was all darned, she had darn l cd 1t with such skill that the darn was I no unsightly ratch but an integral part of the stocking9, so has the man who, l just for pastine, grows 8 few flowers 1 which develop, under his idle experi- i ments. into more than average beauty. l Your talent may be the one ability which has never seemed to you worth l while, and in which other peoples in l ertness Is a continued surprise to you-- 1t Is "so easy" What is that talents
 Analyze it's uses, consider how and l where 1t may be applied to the best ad- 1 vantage and it yourself into the oppor- i tunity it suggests.
 l s'But," young girl once said. q
 only know how to dance and play" She
 turned that "only to practical account, i and made $75 9 week teaching dancing to classes of her own formation. l The factory. hand whose good wife found him "so handy about the house. l discovered 1t possible to give up the long 1 hours of factory work which were crush ing out his life and in. fashionable su- | ~ H. II, l lar customers at so cents an hour for day and halliday work at odd jobs, te j bring in more than harder work pro- duced and under infinitely mere desir-
 able conditions.
 L., I know of a stenographer who kired of the daily grind. She borrowed Eron- l ey, arttstically furnished 8 small apart ment and rented the rooms, took that money and furnished another room, un- j til now she has fifty rooms paying ex- ceptional rentals, as much as $65 a
 month for suit of two small rooms Her talent lay 1n keeping people com fertable, She is a success; she was not too competent a stenographer.
 Can you make sIirtwaists, mend china, raise birds, grow flowers? Car you press trousers, invent ap7etiztne
 desserts. bake good cake or bread? Car
 you draw, write a. good letter? Are you
 a good sory-teller? Do you get alene
 with children? Are you successful 1T
 convincing people? Can you dance, ol
 sing? Is 1t easy to make others under
 stand what you know yourself? And car
 you do your one of these things littli
 better than most people?
 EveFY one of these things represent z
 commercial value. Nobody can ten yoi
 how to apply 1t without living undel ] your vine and fig tree and in your en vironment, but you can find out fo
 yourself-which Is better.
 If you are confronted with Anan
 cial vacuum, with no. apparent way t
 meet it-what Is your talent? You hav
 one; it is salable. 1t is practical. it i desired, somewhere. somehow. Find il bring it out into the light. Never b
 dismayed at its insignihcanee, its appa
 ent triviality; 1t issAs mighty, in t q place as the genius of an Edison.
 never shall forget what the editor of tn Corner told me six years ago. He said
 ''The small things of the world must b done, as we'll as the great ones-ar even more necessary And the snnailes talent in the world can earn living. ), ETHELYN.