Show FAMOUS SONG WRITER KEPT A BOARDING HOUSE I 1 VONDER how many many women who are just simple little housewives today would be famous if they had the time to take fio from demands of their homes and families carrie jacobs bond made her success b because e c a u Is e circumstances forced her to change from a housewife to a business woman sh she e was born in janesville wisconsin in 1863 she liked music and studied le d piano from childhood until she married at the age of eighteen when she was twenty five she remarried dr frank li bond who took a sympathetic interest in her music and encouraged her to compose she wrote one song Is my polly dolly dead at that time and it was accepted but the work was merely a hobby with her and she did not produce more she devoted her hei tm time leand and efforts to being a good housewife and mother for the doctor and her little bittle boy then dr bond was killed in an accident and he 1 ivas was left an invalid without ailt t A na ZI 4 2 money and a nd ran an eight year old son carrie jacobs bond did not lose heart she rented a large house in in chicago and took in roomers i rs she made some money as a dressmaker md nd painting china they were so poor that her son had to go to work soon thereafter after as a delivery boy ambitiously she devoted all her spare time to composing songs through financial support from a womac woman singer pinger she started a small r publishing house writing the words andrusic and music and painting the bover cover doi designs signs of the songs she printed she even promoted the songs herself ind and little by littler little she won success today the songs she wrote are remembered and sung throughout the world A perfect day 1 I love you truly his lullaby my son do you remember and others |