Cinderella Jane

name of Biggs, and had what is known as "light housekeeping privileges." The English of this elegant phrase was, that, before or after the Biggs family had disposed of its meal

lights, the far-distant vista of the sky at the street ends. She speculated about the people she passed; sometimes she st

o gave her employment. She wondered about them; someti

e history of any drab woman of twenty-eight, picked out at random from the

New York to make a living. She was trained for nothing. She had had a High School education, which left her with a taste for books and a consuming ambition to write them. Being a dumb creature at best,

success. She applied at newspaper offices, at first, with her village paper clippings as justification. She admitted to such editors as she saw that

ked over, she tried the magazines. It was a weary round with rejection at every point, while the reserves in her bank g

magazine let her come into his

ours and I want to give you a bit of advice. Are you

s,

thing else to s

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have yo

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lone in t

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te frankly how I fe

h you

mistress. With some idea of the technique of painting, or music, coupled with a surface brilliance, you may paint or sing or play. With even less equipment, you may act; but to write, you must have lived, you must have suffered and known

ace startled him with its eagerness. Her eyes were shining and he f

se go on,"

the sorrows that rack us humans, then you must also have your medium in contr

ook he

ing. They are like extra hands, and brains. Think of the power of them! All the passions wait on them; they bring despair, hope, courage, love; they are the

n I learn a

y style, add words to your possession as a miser

e in Hig

in these things you have brought me. They are sentimental and sill

" said Jan

all the time; get facility with words, then tear it up. Don't try to sell things. Begin to watch people; get abreast of events. Read the papers an

ill!" cr

lau

our's lecture upon unprotec

grateful I am. This

utely confident that you have got so

you,

c of her that she began at once. She answered an advertisement in the paper, inserted by a man named Jerome Paxton,

kept her busy every day. She mended their clothes, cleaned their studios, cooked a meal if necessary, became, in short, a

sand previous nights, she bought her supper at the butcher's and the grocer's, and climbed the many stai

, Milly?"

her skirt. She took her up and petted her a b

and hat away. Milly, whose full name was Militant, constituted her

he way," she said presently, and led the way down the narrow hall, the cat at her heels. She m

, Miss

o, Bi

mouth open, and was mentally developed as far as his adenoids

piece of brea

is. Your mother wi

ain't as goo

d everything into her room. Then she and Milly sat down to the function of dinne

talk back to me to-night. I wonder how it would feel to go to Buffanti'

ect, except to claw her plate. Jane put a

w they talk, Milly, and how they think, and how they act, but I want them to

f life which helps us through the tragedy, always. At Milly's practical reminder, Jane replenished her pl

sat down at her table. Milly sprang into her favourite chair and the pleasure time of th