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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
ON
Success as a Writer Aspirant with Forceful Ideas, Un
flagging Industry and Colossal Patience Can
not Be Checked.
"Organize for Opportunity,'' She Says
How Woman Can Be a Friend to Woman
lly HLliA WHKKLKK WILCOX.
"1 should be very grateful If you could
advise me how to make monev hy my
pen. I have occasionally sold stories and
urt'.clcs. but as I am capable of .vorli '
think I ought to be
muKiiiK a morn reg
iilur Income by some
other sort of writ
ing, only 1 do not
know how to ko
about It "
Dollbtlesn e v e r y
man or woman who
writes' for newspa
peis. magazine or
other periodical." re
ceives hundreds of
letters like the one
given above, which
came "In the morn
ing mull
H Is. always a hit
discouraging to re
ceive such a letter, because It Indicates
tho existence of one more leaner In l
world;-one more God endowed Individual
gradually found her way to micccss. Had
any one taken hex manuscripts and sold
them for her she would never have, de
veloped her own character, or learned
the technique, of HUccess.
The only Individuals to approach for
assistance In a literary career aro the
editors and the literary agencies..
! It is ofttlmes a saving of time to em
ploy u good agent. Now, right here
comes In your self-reliance; if you want
U find out where there is a good liter
ary agent, do not write to some busy
person and expect to have the address
given you. Find out for yourself.
Thero is u little magazine published
for the purpose of telling peoplo things
of this nature.
Go to a book store und make Inquiries,
and by a little trouble ,you will be ablo
Hy ADA I'ATTKHSON.
"Organize for opixrtunlty."
Miss laura Sedgwick Collins is not a
member of a trades unlun or n strike
agitator though her word's sounded us
though that were her field In the world's
activities. Instead she is n composer and
a club member, a woman of enormous
energy, of a wide outlook and of an amaz
ing number of friends. She told me that
women are everyday becoming better
friends of women and how they might
show themselves still better friends.
"Wr lmati well and wo aro gaining r
our efforts to show ourselves the trun
friends of our sex," he said. "We will dn
still better when we focus our energies
on the essential points of that friendship
We best show our friendship for nny one
hy 'riving her u cnanco to belt herself
In other words, we can help her by aid
ing her to turn the key In the door of op.
portunlty. That Is what we need to do
to find what you desire,
We always find what we desire If we Women should organize for opportunity
desire It enough. ' , for women."
ii you want to be a successful jvrlter. I Casting a smiling glance aoloss the sea '
and if you possess any tulent, or. oven
ability, and enormous Industry ' and
colossal patience, you will buccetd, and
who yet looks out. Instead ot wummo ; oc
help, and the army Is so jat Uad t,onOI1 are 8(!tkmK.
one dislikes to think of new "'"nits ; , (CopyrlBhted 1913, by tne star Co.)
There Is but one way to go about any
kind of business, and that way Is to so j
And to go about it yourself.
No one can help you. no one can hinder
'What
"I nm
was the
iHiiidonwurd sho said: "Not us In a
antagonistic way that may put us baclt
100 yenrs or so, but by making ourselves
felt as a force for construction and bet
torment Kvery woman should organize
and be organized In some movement to
help her sex.
"What movements1' should women favor
There Is n droll little story of "Torchy, 1
who was a hustling lad In search of a
position as office boy.
lie found a lino of applicants waltlus
to be admitted to an office which nod ad
vertlsed for a boy.
tie pUshed past the line, took down tho
sign "Boy Wanted" nnd walked Into tne
office.
The astonished manager asked
are you doing with that sign
taktner It down: I am the boy,
answer.
So he secured the place Just by his
assurance.
This exact action might not always
succeed, but that spirit will always suc
ceed. Tho very first requisite for a writer
aio Ideas and the power to express them
in H grammatical, concise. Interesting
manner. The Ideas need not be new
(for in truth there are no new ideas)
Hut there must be something new In th-9 ,
manner of expression, or at least some
thing interesting to readers.
.Back of this must He an Intense deslr
to be heard, and a determination to make
a place In the world of letters, whetho- ,
ns a reporter, correspondent, author, poet,
playwright or essayist. Then the asplr- i
ant must himself make all the effort to I
arrive at the desired goal.
A youth came to New York a year or J
two since, with only debts and deslrea j
to recommend him. He had made a par
tial place. In newspaper work In another
portion of the stales, but he wanted u
metropolitan field. He asked no aid of
any one: some aid waa offered him In the
way of letters of introduction, but all
llieso letters did for him was to obtain
personal Interviews with editors, who told
llhn they had nothing for him to do.
But undiecouraged, the youth began to
write articles and send them to editors,
nnd he wrote something every day and
rent It fomewhere.
Ho read all the magazines and weeklies
and dallies which were popular with tho
pub ic, und he decided what he was cap
aNe of doing for all or tliem.
TN n he wrote accordingly, and when
an urtlclo came back he sent It out again
In the next mall.
Today he has regular contracts with
several editorial concerns and an assured
Income, twislden being a free lance and
sndlnc out hU mental freight ships to
iow ports continually. j
A girl, aged H. on a western prairie. I
felt she had a message for the hearts of j
nne was Iltr timea Hum u.
Our Daily Fashions II 1
u . II . always tht
J j J6 a week
jas a help to their sex?"
I "The most vital is that of a living wr
g wag"
would insist everywhere unJ
that the difference between J3 and
that Is generally paid for tin-
i saiiieu juoor. anu the z a week that ,i
' girl must have to live on, is the differ
ence between right and wrong living. nn
align themselves accordingly, they would
be helping their. sex. strong public senti
ment in that direction would force em-
ployers to pay living wages.
"Women could throw their powerful In
! fluertce In the scales for trade schools,
where girls will be so trained that even
1 In tl)c. domestic field there would be no
j unskilled labor. They could work for
I vocational schools and for compulsory
training In some means of earning a live
1 llhood. In tho public schools. Whatever
! women become thoroughly Interested In
they bring about."
"How can they throw this influence In
the scale as you suggest?"
, "By working for It In their club or
clubs. And by forming clubs for that
; purpose. Organization Is power, and wo
'Hiould organize more and more, organize
ror opportunity for our sex.
"We should organize for the spread of
the knowledge about the beauty In en-
. vlronment. A new paper on the wall, or
j hanging, replacing a bad chromo with a
j rrood print, may cause a revolution In
the lives of persons living who look at It.
J Knowing the power of reforming und up
j lifting of such inanimate thlmcs. we
I ought to give much thought nnd time to
i "ringing Instruction about house decora
i tinn wlthih the reach of 'ery one.
"We could do a great deal with classes
j and lectures on sanitary living and sur
i roundings. Mothers' clubs are Invaluable,
i Wherever you find n club that Is not
formed for card playing or for purely
, social purposes you find work for hu-
maiilty being done. Vou find mistakes
I being made of course, for clubs, like all
i other mortal manifestations, are human:
hut more good than harm Is being done
by all these organizations.
"We can do more good for our sex If,
1 while organizing, we consider most
thoughtfully what our sex most needs.
My own Judgment Is that what woman
j as such needs more than anything else
Is modesty: and that what women most
i need Is knowledge of the momentum of a
! word."
i "How do
Dorothy Dix Says: Life's Great
Tragedy is When a Husband or
Wife Outgrows the Other.
lly DOHOTHY MIX.
During this last winter there have been
two Interesting and successful plays pre
sented in this city that had for their
theme the trading of old wives for new.
In each of these play tho hero was n
self-made mn- He
had begun life as a
poor hoy of humble
social station, und
by his own brains
and hrnwn. nnd
grit, and determi
nation he h a d
worked himself up
lo fame and for
tune, so that nt
middle life he snt
among kings, as It
were. And In his
climbing up tho
ladder this man had
educated himself,
nnd had been edu
cated by llfo until
be took his place
anion the highest
In the land as an equal. He was fitted
for the place he filled.
Kucli of these men hud married a girl
of his own people when ho was very
young. She had been a devoted and
fiilthful wife to him, md In the stress
of his beginnings had tolled with him.
she had washed his clothes and patched
his trousers, and cooked his dlnnors, anft
had been perfectly happy In doing so, but
sho could not climb with him, . or she
j would not climb with him. So It) the
end she was left ut the bottom of the lad
der, while he was at the top, and the
l play resolved Itself around the man's
effort to find some answer to this com
mon and Insoluble problem of matri
mony where one of n couple outgrows the
other
Of course. In a play, melodrama and
sentimentality demanded that the hus
band should be faithful to his dull and
MISS I-JV.UHA SKUQWICK COl.MNB.
learn not to bubble, not to talk us an
hysterical .vent, but to neigh her worus,'
knowing that ouch uue has a strong
piopulsive powur, that words ure things.
Hho should utter no word that meuns
nothing und she should speak no word
that hurts unless It Is u hurt that, like
the wound inflicted by the surge jii s
knife. Is necessary.
"Men nre- fur ahead of us In this knowl
edge A group of them can gather and
discuss a mutter In a purely luiperson.il
wuy. Women find this hard to do. They
must leurn it. and a good wuy to leurn It
Is to organize. If you belong to a club,
sny organization, you must recognize tlu
power or parliamentary law."
.Hinlllngly she repeated her motto, the
inqUo she would have all womanhood
follow: "Organize for opportunity."
The Case of Cassie Chadwick
lly HliUHUT Hl UItAHl). which she carried with her and held
ChssIh Oiudwlck's business wns to bor- caiefully In her lup.
row. Just that and nothing more i ''he banker did not know the contents
Her specialty uus the uiun or fio-the ' "f box- There was no necessity of
deacon in a church the man who wore JIB - Thn widow did not usk for
you
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Hy lu ItACONTKL'SE.
distinguish between
. woman and women In making- that state.
' inent?"
1 "In an abstract sense I think of woman
, as representing the sum of our sex quail
j ties. Viewing us all as one, I should My
that our great need Is modesty. It would
seem that we appear to have lost It, and
Afternoon costume of light gray char- the best first step toward regalnlns it
11. nAtnla Snp UH B I 1 r 111 11 1IUI11 U. .
!!otofflce 'and mi" came and went only meuse with eoat of chestnut "frappl" j would seem to be to remove all trace of
thrre times a weeK.
I velvet.
make-up except when you are dressing
for the evening. Once we could tell at a
nee an estimable woman from one
irticles and verses, and sent them to edi- waist line, is fastened by a huge stress ;m me mer . now we cant, i-rev-.
i .v,, o.,.t verv time the mall went ! button, ond the sleeves are long and alence of make-up on the street Is to
1 1 j hi '- -- ,
She had never seen an editor or a liter- ! The smart little Jackal opened In front 'or
'', person, yet she wrote her crude I In "V" shopo and down'the front to the I Kla
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fitted tightly. The small square collar Is , blame for this
We should set the ex
ample and work, organize If necessary to
nn mnzazlne in the East she sent , of battle.
a manuscript every month for five years. '. The gown Is decollate, V shaped. Ixird- .Mirpress thi follv. We should Impress
And t the end of five years one was ac- 1 ered by deep Valenciennes lace. Three (upon woman that no or Is fooled by It.
rlp,ej buttons trim the front of the waist I The most causal recognizes tho om-
Meawl'lle others began to accept and The skirt ta: gng perfectly straight ' plexlon that Is cot out of a box.
can to grew In nb llt ot express-on nas a nux ri i i " ir"ni wmi u row ir vt nai women, i ,.i ia. pvcrj nuu-ni
u't wl.i writrs ci"l-iuaMy lT Uo at- t i- t W- I .U'-n irl I w of fins c-rsice c-t neeas, is 10 Know inn
.. . , ., i jL-a 'uu of the. word she utt?r She, m l
whiskers and
shaved his upper
lip, bo aa to eat
apples comfort
ably. This digni
fied pillar of ho
cluty was un cus
mark for Cassie
Through Ohio
Indiana and west
ern I'emislyvanla
Casslo carried on
her gentle machin
ations for ten
years.
Her scheme was
to go Into a town
of five, ten or
fifteen thousand
Inhabitants, stop
at the best hotel
and let tho news
get out that she was a rich widow who
was thinking of buying n home
aiiyt'ilng merely that the kind hunker
would take care of this box for her.
ho, here wan n widow, evidently very
, rich. Innocent und, withal, Intelligent and
fairly Kood looking,
j And so she fishes out 1. lays It on
i the box and asked the banker to tukn
this money as fee for storing the tin
box This be gladly does, and the woman
goes away.
Of course, she conuw back in a weult
or two. Incidentally, she needs u little
money, und i In doubt whether to sell
one of 'thousund-dolUr Steel corporation
bonds or borrow the money tor thirty
days until her next Interest comes due.
She explains that shu has private In-
formation from Wall street that ste, I
bonds are going up. She hates to make
a racrlflce. If she knew of some kl
person who would loan her 11,000 sho
would not mind paying INA bonus. And
when she mentions the word "bonus"
the deacon becomes quite Interested. And
To this end she looked at various places out of her reticule, us she glibly and
that wore for sale and Interv.eued varlou-, ' Innocently talks, Cassie fishes a one-hun-
buslnes men as to real estate value ; srrd-nonar cm.
Among others she culled on was the
banker Having located her mun. sh
called in h!m the second time.
8" e (xplftlned that she was about
take his advice and bu u home: that
i Hare was great psychology. I have
noticed that Insurance and railroad ad
justers are apt to display their nione
when th want to get a quick com
promise In uxa of possible damage sun
she Ital J200.W) in bonds in the tin bo , have your money with you A iackae
of one hundred one-dollar bills makes
a big wad. Throw It out on the table.
Or have a hundred-dollar bill, puss It
over and uk the man to examine tho
engraving. The mun will show It to his
wife, and It will go around the room.
Co Cossey. with clever psychology,
fishes out a hundred-dollar bill and says:
"This Is the bonus foi the loan of 1,WW
for thirty days Ht 6 per cent Interest."
Tho bank president thinks of (he tin
box. safe In the vault; of th big In
vestment in real estate that this woman
Is about to make for a permanent homo
Hut, principally, the man It revolvlm?
over and over the sweet word "bonus."
The hundred. dollnr bill that this woman
has and that Is now pii'hed toward hlin
Is his own. He pockets tho hundred
dollar bill und grants the loan.
At the end of tblrtv days Cassie conies
ii round with a thousund-dollur steel bond.
The banker has been u bit siibplclous of
the woman up to this point. But now he
is relieved, lie lb ashamed of himself
lor ever having doubted her. He has
nlwuys wanted to see the Inside of that
tin box. but he had no business to ask,
b(.cause the box was not left as collateral
or even suggested as such.
And so when she pays her note with
a thousand. dollar steel bond the man is
convinced that sho Is all light.
Of course she returns. Tho next time,
she borrows S23.0OO, with the usual 10 per
cent bonus to pupa. These loans In
creased until In severul Instances they
ran up to JIO.Oi. t-W.COO and $76,000.
All of the bankers who rnuke up the
bankers' colonies In penitentiaries wero
men who worked for themselves and not
the bank. The bonus was In tlu-lr mind.
No man goes to the penitentiary when
he works for tho good of the Institution.
When he works for himself the Interests
of hi employer fall Into abeyance.
Nobody knows how mmy Cassie Chad
wick victimized. Wo only know of thoso
who squealed.
Bankers now no longer wear gumshoe
ud do business behind closed doors. You
will find bank managers, vice presidents
and cashiers right out in tlui lobby. You
go right up to them, state your ca and
then they state theirs. The whole trans
action Is frank, full, free, right out in the
sunlight. No finesse or cleverness goes.
Hankers now loan money on character,
on clear Lyes, on good teeth, good breath,
honesty, right Intent. A banker wants to
know only two things about you: What
ioit of business you conduct and what
kind of a man your ure
Copyright 1912, International News Service.
uninteresting and commonplace old wife,
and he was held up to our bitter scorn
because he was tempted to forsake her
for tho brilliant women of the new world
Into which he had passed, and we only
forgave him when for the sak of ths
fool happy conclusion that they say plays
must have ho went back to his faithful
old Mario,
In these, plays It was Intended that the
pathetic figure should be that of the for
saken wife, but the one thut I wanted to
bedew with my tears was the lonel.v
man who wan tied to the corpse 'of a dead
love that hn must d.rug about with him
as long as he lived, and whose success
was made, dust and ashes In his teeth
because he had no one with whom lo
savor It.
For the woman who does not under
standthe woman who never can under-stand-Is
not always of the vampire type.
Bhe Is oftcnest Just the narrow, stupid,
prejudiced woman who cannot see an
Inch beyond her nose, who cannot com
prehend a thing outside nf her own little
range of personal experiences, and who
can no morn change her point of view
than the leopard can change his spots or
the ethenplan his skin.
It Is thin woman that strips the man
who achieves "to his foolish hide." to
borrow Kipling's phruso, and makes alt
that he has done of no account, so far ns
bringing hlrn any happiness Is concerned,
because she has not grown with his
growth, nor strengthened with hi
strength. She has sat supinely down and
let him go forward while she stayed put.
and because he Is bound .to her hand and
foot by the most unbreakable fetter In
the world the fetter that Is forged by
honor.
We have a phruso that describes such
a woman. We speak of her as "ths wife
ot his youth." In that Is the tragedy ot
many a successful man's life. The woman
he Is married to Is the wife of his youth.
Hlie Is the wlfo of his callow Immoturity.
Blio is tho wife of his uneducated, un
read, uncultivated youth.
Jlut at middle uge he Is no more that
crude, gawky, unlettered boy than his
Immaculate broadcloth Is the blue denim
of the overalls he used to wear. He
has worked, and studied, and Improved,
and polished himself In mind and body,
and the Woman who has stayed Just as
she wus, who hy not advanced an Inch
In any way, and who was the wlfo of hi
youth. Is the wife of his maturitr In
name only.
They have not one single thing- In com
mon, not one taste, not one Interest, not
one idea, and in the pathos of their lot
he Is Just as much to be P I tied as she.
Noy. more, for It Is always the one
with the keener Intellect, the more far
seeing eye that suffers most. The
groundling can. to a large extent, be
satisfied with material things, but the
one who soars aloft is tortured by the
vision of w(lmt Ufa might be In the rap?
turo of u perfect companionship. ,
In all the world there Is nothinr more
terrible or more sorrowful than this .de
velopment of one of a married pair,
whllo the other Is stunted. Nor Is It al
wuys the husband that grows away from
his wife. Sometimes It Is the woman
whose mind and.htart get bigger, and
broader, and wiser as the years go by
until she walks In-green pastures and on
I upianns. wnere ner nuspand does not
even attempt to follow her.
In such cases the woman who. has out
grown her husband clanks the chains of
her marriage, which - l.i- nothing- 'but a
bondage, after her. Just as does the man
who has outgrown his wife. She, too,
knows the lonllness und the dreariness
of a life In which husband and wife
speak different languages, have differ-,
ernnt standards ot measurement and look
at life from the point of view of aliens.
She too. sups on the husks of affection
and dreams of what4the full meal might
be with an equal.
And the worst of this tragedy of de
velopment Is thut It cannot be helped,
nor remedied. The mind that has thn
germ of growth In It must unfold and
attain Its full stature, no matter whether
It brings hapiHness or misery. The cold
cannot aspire and uchlove, no matter how
It might wish to. The "clod cannot aspire
and achieve, no hare, nor may they run
the race together.
There are those who are forever tell
ing the dull wife of the brilliant man
that she must strain herself to keep up
with him. Doubtedless this Is good ad-i
vice. At least It probably mltlgatM the
situation for them both, for they are
! oqual sharers In the calamity that be
' falls a marriage in which either the hus-
band of the wife outgrows 'the other