Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-14
EVERY ABILITY HAS 4 IARKE
 VALUE.

Dear SOClaI COrner1teS. l was Lilnk- ing about every ability. had it's money value. The thought occurred to me that all over the country hundreds of men and women are saying daily, If only knew a way to earn a little extra mon cyl" Yet every one of us has some ability which possesses a real market wholesome ability other than the one at present earning our plain bread and butter. The roubIe is that usually it is just the thing which we know best how to do which never occurs to us as a way of solving our purse problem. The things that are easy to us we cannot conceive as being of any importance to anybody else-and that's where we're wrongi
 The woman who Is fully capable with her needle goes on alarming coarse hose into poems Of stitchery, and making beautiful near-tapestry of the patches on her childrens fast disintegrating c<othes, while she wishes and wishes and wearily wishes that she had son1e abil- | ity "as other women have which could make possible a simple vacation the coming sumrper-some ability which ] could earn dollars. She has her needle to fall back on, and not in the old fashioned use of it either-that deadly
 sewing by the day" There are more original and less trying ways of putting l it to work for her, as hundred ingenious {, women have proved.
 The man who loves to fiddle around | in the moist soil of his modest paid-oE-
 the-insta allnent-plan cottage home, pull | ing up weeds, making amateur drains to carry away the standing water that
 the rain has left behind and killing po-
 tato bugs-oh, there are such men; yes. indeed-wtll give himself wrinkles in the brain trying to figure out, some side line" that he could work success fully to add to his income. He will think seriously of selling dictionaries, or life insurance while tying up thrifty sweet peas, but he never thinks of growing the latter for the market.
 As l told you before, each of us pos sess some money-earning capacity,
 which, regardless of environment or con
 ditions, can be put to use. The women
 with "only housekeeping talents" are not
 debarred from earning money because
 they must do it at home. One can dc
 things anywhere, if one will only selec; the things one knows how to do. Nou may take it as a fact that, appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, some
 body wants your ability or the product
 of your ability-and wants it bad. Lei
 me tell you a real good incident.
 Just few years ago man in one oi
 
 nection with charitable institution
 brought him into contact with many peo pie daily, but whose Knowledge of prac- tical business life was conspicuous bJ it's absence. decided to come east to bet ter his condition. He came, wife ant
 three children, only to find employment scarce and himself without the specia training which seemed to be required
 for the few positions which fell his way | EJo rrt1 tx dO r. pay his fast growing grocery bill ant the situation became desperate. He wa discouraged, Respondent, ready to giv,
 ur-but when you have family de pending on you, you can't do that, st there you are.
 In this last most desperate moment o
 all his mind turned up sentence reat
 some time in the past-just as ou minds do turn up at tragic crises tn substance of printed words read lon. ago and unnoted at the time irrelevanF
 often futile and even silly, but persist ent in their iterated demanh upon ou , notice. His mind was at last arprcpri ate in it's selection, for the sentence
 kept repeating over and over to his con
 sciousness was, When you don't se
 how you're going to earn the next dol
 lar, sit down and take stock He tm T mediately sat down and took stock l ever ! t,preconceived notion of what he wante 5 to door what he could do-then locke " himself over and catalouged his abil a ties.
 = What did he find? We'll, he admitte ' afterward that the only thing h9 coul . really put his finger on that he coui v do successfully was meeting people, o secure an audience and make an agree able impression. That's what his expel = fence hau been and only that. Right hel o his wife came to the rescue. She toe . stock, as we'll, and said quite firml ' that there was one thing she could d = and that was bake and if they, put h ,s ability and hers together, could they il '- do something with the amalgamated pr, ', duct?'
 s He thought they could. And they al v V for in that little back room. with asse " nothing and liabilities eighteen dolla. y for an unpaid grocery bill, they startt .s home bakery in their minds. That ', not bad place to start things by u " <. way. The next morning the man wel y to the groceryman who was waiti1 ', for that eighteen dollars told him of u ol stock-taking seance and of the hom ls bakery resolution, and asked him f iu further credit. His despised ability U ''just creating an agreeable impression
 won him the favor, and after locKil I'd about a little the newly-formed par+ne III ship of Husband & Co., decided to ma l it's first venture with Boston brov lg bread, hominy, baked beans and cotta is cheese.
 ig With a wheeTbarrow on his first tr nt he sold thirty4two loaves of Bost y. brown bread. five gallons of hominy, As quarts of baked beans and a small su st ply of cottage cheese Before o'clo m Husband & Co. had sold everything c es with s3 profit.
 1T And with just these same articl
 Husband Co. have earned since l ce first experiment never less than B d ,s and more often S25 a week, above Id expenses, including the expense of kee
 ing the home running where five had
 be fed.
 This is a true story. No fortune b lS been made, but two of Che rank and i
 have Put to use homeiy and little recc
 pized abilities and found comfortal - living In doing so.
 ' Round pegs in round holes-tha G ~. what makes success. Doing what y a know how to do. even if your only ca ,,s' ital Is grit-and wheelbarrow, Is { ,,s trick that wins: and taking stock .SS the first step towards 6nding the h H 'o- into whIch our own particular peg fits =. KITTY LOU, we WILL BE MISSED IN MANY WAY en Dear Editor and Sisters of the Soc