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Show Crossing the bridge from shot to society , I jg "Ir TlJiyp3 gg NTERPR1SE and Success of a Weft figrn Daughter of Dixie, Who.. Rinding Herself gg .- j H Tjjl Suddenly Penniless, Recouped Her Fallen Fortunes in New om , . ,f H Kthe broaberW ..'; j; p&Mfa ' '"" -"J I M J; J.JL1JUILP0 OJ? M v vl K iPlil J 'Jv?w3 rCopjrlsbt. 1811. by the New Yorfc ncrald Co. All rlehta rmrrri.t NEW YORK, Snturdny. i ' a a T USINESS nocd not keep a wouinn out of so- 1 i S-. ccty Providcil she remains herself and does J her work well." Is the message which Miss Julia W. C. Cnrroll, born a daughter of tho old South, then seamstress, modiste, cos- , turner and finally society woman In New York, sends to Amerlcnn women. f The doors of success In the worlds of society and I business hare swung wide to Miss Carroll's touch. : Why? How mnny women nil over the country would like tp know the answer to that question!' How many would gladly give ten years of their lives for such a I : double success as hers has been! How did she do It? I Tall and graceful, with a manner at once dignified ' ! and cordial, thls'womnn. who Is still young and radl-' ant, looks tho personification of success Her hair ?M and complexion are fair, with those warmer tints -which arc too vivid for such a flavorless word as K blonde. Many successful women have had that color jl ing in Its varying tints Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen I of Scots, Georcc Sand nnd in our own day Ellen Terry J nnd Sarah Bernhardt. From rod-gold, like that of this I artist In gowns straight on through deepest auburn, I : such hair -ecnis to denote In Its possessor vitality, op-H op-H tlmism and a determination to succeed. il But Instead of tiio pallor that usually accompanies ", hair so full of light and life. Miss Carroll lias a color II that comes and goes with the changing expression of If . her eyes. It deepens with her laughter and disappears II nt her frown. It leaps up at the suggestion that busl-j busl-j : ness-siicccss,rnaymean thc.sacrlficcpf any essential df thing In a woman's life. And It dies with the tired K droop of her eyes at the memory of the years of hard H .vork, for these she does consider unavoidable. Wt For It is by the hardest kind of hard work that Miss ' Carroll has succeeded Determination and business H ' ability to a marked and unsuspected degree she must 1 ' have always had. But these only made possible her iucccss. It was hard work that accomplished it. Born into one of Amcricn's historic families, for the r same of Carroll has been famous ever since Colonial i lays, she began life without a thought of ever having , to pay for the bread she ate nnd tho clothes she wore. m I Her family was well-to-do In n land where no one Is ; now rich, nnd she was educated nt r. fashionable jjfc Northern boarding school. Before her stretched the i & -nunds of visits, balls and love affairs which make up Jk: the life of the girl who is born in Dixie. For this girl t BtiH expects to be. and still Is, guarded, cared for and ml Hdored. p But before the little daughter of the Carrolls had so f much as made her bow to this most delightful society 11 n Midden turn of fortune's wheel threw hor almost 1$ ppnnlless upon h r own -sources. Facing tho necs- Jl slty of work or dependence upon distant relatives, she Hi was brave enough to clnosc the former, nnd resolved , y to come to New York. J5 "It was the courage of Ignorance," she said, stnnd- j Ing In her beautiful shop with the suggestion of nn- "ftt covlrn' na,,s 1" ,ts nntlriue furnlbhlngH. "I came with m, a shoe string and a prayer book. But I knew I never m could succeed at home, where no one ever worked nnd , no ope would believe that I could succeed. As a mat- Ic ter of fact, I hnd less thnn $100 in nil tho world. Fl- M' nally my family said, 'Well, you can't live on $400. but K you will nevor be satisfied until It Is gone, so you If might as well becln.' 'M- "I resolved to begin 'In New York, for, inexperienced K as I was, I realized that success here meant success Jg: In the world In a smaller city it means only success Kin that vicinity. ui "A. certain kind of experience I did have. Every S , Southern girl born since the war lias learned to 'make S ' things do When she wants a new gown she doesn't 5; go to the city nnd order It. Sh goes up to the attic 3t and resurrects Aunt Sue's bombazine and Grandma's Iff, lilac silk. Then with the help of her 'mammy' she J I makes the gown herself. Jljl "It was with the negro family seamstress that I i? came to New York and mnrle my tart In a corner of jL) the loft of the Ormc Wilson sliible. For this corner V loft I padd $10 a month It wns linid work paying it y' nt first, for I knew absolutely no one." fil A faraway expression came into Miss Carroll's eyes. Wi ns If she saw again that girl, looking out from a stable fdX window upon a world that was denied her. At homo Hj hpr friends were lnughlng, dancing, happy. Here 'In 7l M the bro-ivnstone houses of Fifth avenue other girls, no U- more Ixjautlful or well born or attractive than she. 'J were getting tho fulness of joy out of tho golden ffi; hours of youth. Only she was nlone. forgotten. doomed to toll through the years to preserve the very & life that hnd lout Its savor. Many a tenr must have 5 dropped to rust the needle that was her only weapon 0B against the world! Sw What People Wanted. rfi But as the faraway look died out of Miss Carroll's Tffi yesitbere came the realization that the girl in the loft WB, hud. not spent much time In self-pity. Young ns she yH wua, she must have been much too sensible and detcr-gpJimined detcr-gpJimined for that. In spite of her inexperience and K ji VritidIessTiefi3, her Instinct told her In wJilch direction m , layfsuccesa. St.. One of Them Mrs. Brown Decides to Have Copied in Another Material ' H "I looked about to find the things that people wanted, want-ed, nnd 1 saw that the pretty negligees in the bhop windows were very expensive. They are easily made, for there Is practically no fitting, so I made a few and they sold well. Then I added shirtwaists and silk blouses and the wash dresses that are still so hard to find In the satisfactory inexpensive varieties. We wear those almost all the time In the South, so I had hnd plenty of experience In making them. Always Al-ways I tried to find out the things thnt people needed and couldn't easily get, nnd to supply them. For a long time I wouldn't attempt anything boned, but finally I hnd to come to it. Gradually the business busi-ness grew, and I moved to more commodious quarters, quar-ters, nnd now I am here." Miss Carroll smiled her charming smile ns she glnnceu" nbout theshpp windows overlooking tho most fashlouablo shopping district of Fifth avenue, which Is to say America. She has Indeed "arrived." Tho room itself is filled with treasures of antique furniture, furni-ture, which, Ilko their beautiful contents, me for sale. Long mirrors that have reflected the beauty of the belle of Madison square now frame the unconscious figure of her great-granddaughter, who has motorod in from the Orhnges or Montclnlr. In the cabinets nt the rear are tho gowns that huvc come for Mlsa Carroll's approval, all the way from I'nrls. And among these suggestions, of luxury long accustomed ac-customed moves the daughter of the Carrolls, as truly a hostess an she would, have been In her nnecstrul home. For she Is neither Julia Carroll, nor Mademoiselle Mademoi-selle Julie, but simply Miss Cnnoll, a Southern lntly who has not stepped down Into business, but has brought business up to her own standards. Would you like to gee how she baa accomplished It? The womnji who steps from the elevntor 1h gowned with that quiet elegance which Is an unmistakable as It is rare. "Why, how do you do, Mrs. Brown. I wondered if you would get down to day." Miss Carroll'a visitor hi greeted and Bentcd with the same cordiality that would have made her welcome on the Southern veranda, no more, no less. There the most comfortable chair, a chat and n cup of tea. Here the chair, the same ch.it nbout the summer Just passed, and a glimpse of the beauty behind the cabinet doors. It is simply a difference differ-ence of locality. In either case, she Is supplied with whatever she may be presumed :to want. "Bring the dress with the roe" " MKs Carroll breaks off her chat about the mountains to speak to a saleswoman who Is ns different as possible from her prototype behind the counter. - The blue nnd silver dress comes It Is n dream of liberty satin, delicately frosted,' hung with tiny Icicles of fringe, and lest these shouJd.ecm too cold, finished nt tho top with a wreath of nestling rosebuds. The saleswoman's hnnd holds out the front of the gown, and white shoulders nnd n lovely girlish face seem to rise from that mist of sliver and roses. The fringe rustics, Impatient for the music, the roses rise and fall In a happy sigh: r ( i ' ' '-'i vK sSsb9l Sot She Goes Up to the Attic and Resurrects Aunt Sue's Bombazine and Grandma's Silk. "Ah. lovely!" Mrs. Brown sinks bnck in her chair, and the gown Is only a gown agoln, with all lLs possibilities of happiness hap-piness and heartbreak still wrapped In Its shining folds. And so they come, one after nnother, bringing with them vlfllons of balls, of dinners, of afternoon teas. Some are beautiful with the charm of to-day, souio with the more unfumllbir fashion of to-morrow. Many are not suitable for Mrs. Brown, for this Is nn entertainment for a friend and not n aale. MLs.s Cnrroll sits beside her, looking at the gowns, saying little or nothing, "hc snleswomun herself talks very little. The gowns'ire allowed to do their own talking, Jid their beauty Is eloquent. Two or three In which Mrs. Brown has shown a more personal Interest aro laid nslde nnd In the end they arc slipped ovtr the head of the model. One of them, n lovely lavender crOpe, Mrs. Brown decides to have copied in another material. Then Miss Carroll wuggesLs a touch here, a change of color there will make tho gown more becoming. She is at once the friend who wishes to present Mrs. Brown at her best and the expert who understands how to do It. "I always try to cet my customer's point of view," she says, after this one has left. "Of course I try to inllucnrc them If I see that they are making a mistake, mis-take, for I feel n sense of obligation to them for results. re-sults. I suppose I lo have the social attitude toward them. With n Southern womnn It Is so Instinctive and so Instilled that she never gets far away from It. "And. to tell the truth. I've never tried. I never permit a customer to be rude to me or to one of my people here any more thnn I should in my own home. You see. I've tried to keep my personality nnd my attitude toward life unchnnged. "Any woman can do thnt provided she Is Interested In whnt she Is doing If she isn't Interested she is working against herself It doesn't mnttcr what rjhc noes provided she docs not let It affect her sclf-rcdpcct. If I scrubbed floors and took a pride In doing it well the effect on my chnractcr could not be detrimental. "Then, of course, the woman who succeeds must have business faculty. Granted that, a woman who has succeeded In one line of business would have probably made an equal success of anything else In which she might have become Interested. f Hard Work and Sacrifice. "But it Is harder to be a successful business woman than a successful business man. There arc so many things that sue must sacrifice, and so many that she must noL It lsu't only the hard work. The amuse- . racnts,. tho companionship and the freedom that tnaKo up tho life of the woman of leisure have to go. But the woman of good breeding who goes Into business must doubly guard her dignity, ber respect for hcr-ftplf hcr-ftplf and her business and her ideals of conduct If atie wlaherf to keep unchanged her personality, and through it her social position. "That position will be precisely what It would be If sha were not In business, provided she keep. to her Ideals nnd her determlnntion to succeed. It all de-ponds de-ponds upon herself. TIvc people whom nhe meets will lako precisely the same attitude toward her and her business that she herself does- It depends on the individual. in-dividual. "After all. personality, confidence and dignity are the things that count It Is lnck of confidence that H makes the American woman go to Paris for her H gowns. We have to go there for the styles, of course, for thnt Is where the styles arc made. But nlong the general lines just ns many beautiful designs are H worked out in this country ns In Paris. And they H are more individual, and better suited to American women. "Put a French nnd nn American woman Into a H French and nn Amerlcnn gown mnde from the same B model. TJin French womnn looks chic in hers, but H like .i fashion plate. But the Amerlcnn woman . 'ally H wears hers. She is always herself, in spite of hci H clothes. Som-! day American women will come to H realize that they are the best dressed women In the H world, nnd huy their clothes at home. t H "On the whole, I do not approve of a business llfp ,H for a woman unless It Is absolutely necessary.' Her proper buolness is taking care of her home and her H children If she has them. But if the necessity arises H she should be willing to do whatever she can. And If she remains herself nnd doe her work well, she will find thnt It makes absolutely no difference In her social position. .It Is what she Is, not what she does, which H determines that." H |