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Camilla Demlng was a country gir
who went to the city to Join in the llv
erary scramble. Ambitious and pos
sessing some means, she Intended to
eschew the drudgery of editorial work
and strike at once into authorship. But
one man in her native village was sufHelentlv
lnt?11iw?hnil tn oiw>nro h?p
friendship, Curtis Forster, a young
physician who had Btudled bis profession
in town and returned to practice
It in the country. He was plodding
and practical. He strongly advised her
to choose a role offerinjg greater chances
of success, that of wife and mother,
with himself for the husband, and
when she refused begged her if she
were unsuccessful to consider the offer
still open.
She had met with ho<~ ? success by
writing stories for the cc jntry papers
and began in her new field with others
more finished, it is true, but the same
simple work that had so pleased her
neighbors. Occasionally she would dispose
of one of them to a magazine,
but at the end of a year after figuring
up her net proceeds she had gained
but a twentieth of her expenditures.
She had brought with her from the
country a bit of editorial work, which
had remained in the bottom or her
trunk. Feeling that she should make
gn effort to add something to her income
for the next year even if It were
not by her choaen creative work, she
took out this manuscript, smoothed the
rumpled pages and looked it over. It
consisted of a series of selections from
the most affecting scenes in the works
of Washington Irving, to each of which
she bad written a brief introduction,
admirably imitating the author's style
It was accepted, and the book made
m uu. x lir auiuvrs iutuuic lur iiie
year from this aource was equal to bei
expenditures. Her publisher suggested
the writing of another similar book
made up of extracts from the bumor
of a noted author.
The publisher's suggestion was accompanied
by so handsome an offer
that she accepted. The second book
was more popular than the first and
the proceeds derived many times larger.
Then commenced a scramble
among publishers for the works of
Camilla Defining. Success Is gratifying
In any form, and the young author
was very math delighted with hers
She did not now consider her work
Imply editorial. At any rate, she saw
In It an ope nine for her own creations.
She had loos had on hand a novel
which from time to time abe had submitted
to publishers, then revised and
oabmltted again, always with the same
result? 'Unavailable.'' Selecting one
of a dosen publishers who were now
bounding her for her work, she placed
It la his hands, am] It was published
jffr Immediately.
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About this time she received a note |
from Dr. Forster congratulating her
on her progress. She replied In a
vein of exhilaration, giving with
charming naivete the remark of her
last publisher, "You will soon be a)
the top of the ladder if you don't mar
ry." Forster replied, 'Marry and turn
the ladder upside down."
The novel was a success. Though
not as successful as the two prevlodF
books, still it sold well. Camilla waited
before entering upon any new work
till this fact bad been established
then went to her publisher for a conference.
lie told her that there was
a demand for n work like her previous
ones and suggested that she take up
Thackeray and extract scenes as she
had done with Irving.
Somehow the advice fell on Camilla
like a wet blanket. She was ut a turning
point In her career. What should
she do? She felt the need of some one
in whom she had confidence to assist
her In seeing the problem in its true
light. Packiug her belongings, she took
a train for home. Arriving there, she
j sent for Dr. Forster, stated her case
! and asked his advice. He took a copy
; of each of her three books and promised
to see her when he had carefully
read them. In a few days he called
i upon her with his report, which she
I well knew would be the plain, unvarI
nlshed truth:
"The sale of your first two books
was based on the genius of another.
Publishers, In order to secure that
which they were sure of selling, so
flattered you that they partly convinced
you that your success was
largely due to your own effort. Your
novel Is pleasing, but not a work of
genius."
Camilla drew a long sigh?the sigh
of one bitterly disappointed.
"Camilla," the doctor went on,
"what Is this you lament?that you
are not pre-eminent in creating imaginary
beings who are intended to move
before "us like real people, enact their
triuinps and weep at their failures?
Tt is a noble field, I admit, a field In
which there have been but few real
masters, but there Is a nobler one. In
It the characters are real and come
from the great Creator. It Is a field
Into which I would myself gladly enter
If you would consent to enter It
with me. If you will abandon tha
fictitious and take up the real, your
characters will be a husband who
adores you and Children whose being
Is not the fanciful emanation of your
brain, but a part of yourself. The
scene of your romance will be a real
borne; the hopes, fears, success, fall
ares or your story those of an actual
united family."
Before he had finished the doctor
had advanced and taken her in hi*
arms. When he had concluded, Camilla
pondered awhile, then, looking
up with a smile and a twinkle, said:
"You've turned' the ladder upside
down, and I'm on the top round."
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In a certain village of New Ilamp hire
there Is a quaint old character Bw. ,
known as Boss Mellin keenly alive to
the truth of the old Baying, "Silence Is fri
golden." Mellin's gift In this respect Igl
approaches genius, though he was ful- HE
ly aware of what he deemed his short- HE
comings therein.
Mellin used to make mattresses for !
a living. One day a native of the place H|
entered his shop and asked, "Boss,
what's the best kind of a mattress?"
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Twenty years later, so runs the trn- Bfl
dltion. the same man again entered the BQ
shop and again asked what, in the
opinion of Mellin, was the best kind of
a mattress.
"Straw," said Boss.
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Maiden Insurance. fly
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singular Denmark Institution. It is Kg
confined to the nobility, and the noble- Bra
man, us soon as a female child is born Rj
to him, enrolls her name on the com- EH
pany's books and pays In a certain BE
sum uud thereafter a fixed annual
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young girl has reached the age of
twenty-one she is entitled to a fixed Kj
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lence, both almost princely, are hers
until she either marries or dies. The jS
society has existed for generations. It
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poverty stricken old maids are un- H||
known among the Denmark nobility, BS
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