Girls Going On The Stage

"I don't think I would advise a girl to go on the stage. The only reason for not doing so is the hardships she must go throngh to get a positura, the percentage of failures is so inuch larger than that o: successes. Why, leaving out the Mojeskas and the Clara Morrises, you can coum on your fingers the ambitious yor.ng girls who have become successful st'xrs. The great cause of failure is vanity, both with women and men. A girl says to herself 'I have a pretty face,' or 'a handsome figure,' and when she is before the footlights that is all she tliinks of. So much study, oh, so much study is necessary to success. If a girl has talent and a steady head, and must veork for a living, then, I say, let her try the stage. Dollars and cents are the best incentive, because when it is a matter of bread and butter she feels that she mast study, must constantly improve. "The temptations of the stage? Well, they are not so gireat that a girl with the qualities of success can not resist them. The rnles of theaters nowadays are so sfcrict Miat a girl who obeys them has .no difficulty in going right. She must tafce care of her health and she must study, or ghe will not succeed, and if she does both she has no time to go wrong, no time for midnight suppers or much company. She must have sense enongh to know that the compliments and attentions of admirers are not always well meaDt. There is, indeed, very little vice on the stage. Oh, I have known so many beautiful lives on the stage.- Annie Pixley in New York Mail and Express.