The Weekly Clarion

How Worth Made Fame and Fortune,

I knew that man when he was a poor boy-a young English lad, a petty clerk in an old established ladies' outfitting house in Paris. Did the future appear to present much scope for fame and fortune to a youth with such slender opportunities? Yet he contrived so persistently and continuously to put excellence in his work, to do what he had to do with such enthusiasm and good taste, that it gradually became the fashion for ladies of high rank to desire his attendance when they gave an order. And so he made his way, never flagging, aiming for the highest artistic standard in the making of ladies' gowns, as earnestly and lovingly as if he were a painter panting to obtain the laurel-wreath of glory in that fairy-like art, and see his pictures hung upon the line at the Royal Academy. You know how he has succeeded. When he left the house where he was employed so long, and which had a flourishing trade for more than half a century before this Englishman was born, he carried nearly the whole of the paying customers of the house with him, and left the firm aghast to face bankruptcy. He is now rich and famous, and it is said Continental princesses invite him to dinner.