Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. 2 (of 2) / Or Success, Ideals and How to Attain Them
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. II (of 2), Edited by Orison Swett Marden
JOYS OF HOME
LITTLE VISITS WITH GREAT AMERICANS
OR SUCCESS IDEALS AND HOW TO ATTAIN THEM EDITED BY ORISON SWETT MARDEN AUTHOR OF “PUSHING TO THE FRONT,” ETC., ETC., ETC. ——————— THE SUCCESS COMPANY NEW YORK 1905
Copyright, 1903 By THE SUCCESS COMPANY New York ——— Copyright, 1904 By THE SUCCESS COMPANY New York ——— All Rights Reserved
THE felicity of F. Opper’s caricatures is marvelous. His drawings for the Dinkelspiel stories, by George V. Hobart, in the New York “Morning Journal” have drawn to him the pleased attention of those whom he has caused to laugh at the happy expressions of his characters,—at the ridiculous expressions of the characters,—during Mr. Dinkelspiel’s “gonversationings,” particularly at Mr. Dinkelspiel’s earnest look.
He is a caricaturist of the “first water,” and in this connection I may say that a caricature too carefully drawn often loses its humor. Still Mr. Opper has proved his ability to finish a drawing smoothly. Those familiar with the back numbers of “Puck” will concede this and much more.
His life is an example of determination. I called, by appointment, at his house in Bensonhurst (near Bath Beach), a pretty suburb within the precincts of Greater New York. We stepped into his library.
He drew my attention to the pictures on the four walls of the room. “Those are all ‘originals,’ by contemporaries,” he said, “and there is one by poor Mike Woolf. We were intimate friends, and I attended his funeral.”
The conversation turned toward Mr. Opper himself, and I asked:—
“How is it you can conceive so many ridiculous ideas and predicaments?”
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STUDIES OUT HIS IDEAS.
A PRINTER’S DEVIL.
GOOD USE OF LEISURE TIME.
HIS CONNECTION WITH “PUCK.”
THE “SUBURBAN RESIDENT.”
MADE HIS FIRST SKETCH AT TWENTY-FIVE.
HE GAVE UP A LARGE SALARY TO PURSUE ART.
THE INSPIRATION THAT COUNTS.
A PET DOG HIS FIRST PAINTING.
A UNIQUE EXPERIMENT WITH A HORSE.
NATURE’S LAW OF COMPENSATION.
HOW HE TOOK JOSEPH JEFFERSON’S LIFE.
HOW TO FIND SUCCESS.
HE BEGAN AS A DRY GOODS CLERK.
HE GIVES INFINITE ATTENTION TO DETAIL.
IN THE MARINE BAND.
HIS FIRST SUCCESSFUL WORK.
A MAN WHO NEVER RESTS.
HOW SOUSA WORKS.
HELEN KELLER AT HOME.
HER AMBITION.
HEREDITY AND CHILDHOOD.
HELEN’S FIRST TEACHER.
PREPARING FOR COLLEGE.
HER IDEAL OF A SUCCESSFUL CAREER.
DIFFERENT WAYS OF BEING SUCCESSFUL.
A WORTHY AIM IN LIFE.
JAY GOULD WAS HIS CHUM.
HE BEGAN WRITING AT SIXTEEN.
WHAT NATURE STUDY REALLY MEANS.
WHY HE IS RICH WITHOUT MONEY.
A FACE FULL OF CHARACTER.
HER AMBITIONS AND AIMS.
A MOST CHARMING CHARITY.
UNHERALDED BENEFACTIONS.
HER MEANS OF EDUCATION.
THE EVIL OF IDLENESS.
PRACTICAL BENEFICENCE NOT MERE CHARITY.
HE DOES NOT WOUND THEIR SELF-RESPECT.
HE IS A KEEN, ENERGETIC MANAGER.
ONWARD, EVER; UPWARD, ALWAYS.
HE ENLISTED AT EIGHTEEN.
HOUSEKEEPING IN TWO SMALL ROOMS.
HOW HE ENTERED THE MINISTRY.
HE IS ALWAYS STUDYING SOMETHING.
CAN A PREACHER BE A POWER?
MEN WHO INFLUENCED HIM.
HE DID NOT PRETEND TO PIETY.
ARE THE DICE OF LIFE LOADED?
A MINISTER’S TRUE IDEAL.
HIS WORK IN CHICAGO.
HOW TO MEET GREAT EMERGENCIES.
THE LIGHT THAT LED OVER THE SEA.
GENIUS IS DEVOTION AND APPLICATION.
LOVED BY HIS EMPLOYEES.
BORN IN A HUMBLE HOME.
THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITIES.
GOOD WILL AND FELLOWSHIP IN BUSINESS.
TRYING TO LEARN HOW TO HELP EACH OTHER.
YOUNG MEN IN POLITICS.
EVILS OF CONCENTRATION.
A WRONG CONCEPTION OF SUCCESS.
SLAVES OF WEALTH.
A BOY’S CHANCE TO-DAY.
INHERITED QUALITIES.
LEAVING THE FARM.
A MINING VENTURE.
HE ENTERS THE GRAIN MARKET.
QUALITIES THAT BRING SUCCESS.
THE GENESIS OF A GREAT BENEVOLENCE.
A BUSINESS KING.
FOREARMED AGAINST PANIC.
SOME SECRETS OF SUCCESS.
LET THE WORK SHOW.
A MOTHER’S MIGHTY INFLUENCE.
PREPARE TO THE UTMOST: THEN DO YOUR BEST.
THE MAN IS THE IMPORTANT FACTOR.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF ABILITY.
HE WOULD NOT BE DISCOURAGED.
THERE MUST BE NO PLAY, ONLY STUDY AND PRACTICE.
“I WAS TRAVELING ON AIR.”
HER FIRST EUROPEAN TOUR.
“WHY DON’T YOU SING IN GRAND OPERA?”
THIS WAS HER CROWNING TRIUMPH.
THE KINDNESS OF FRAU WAGNER.
THE MUSICAL TALENT OF AMERICAN GIRLS.
Success Maxims
Success Maxims
STATESMEN.
William Boyd Allison.
Grover Cleveland.
William Pierce Frye.
John Hay.
George Frisbie Hoar.
Henry Cabot Lodge.
Richard Olney.
Elihu Root.
INDUSTRIAL LEADERS.
E. G. Acheson.
Charles Henry Cramp.
Charles Ranlett Flint.
Charles Melville Hays.
John B. Herreshoff.
Lewis Nixon.
John H. Patterson.
MANUFACTURERS.
Hugh Chisholm.
Theodore Lowe De Vinne.
William Louis Douglas.
Charles Eastman.
Albert August Pope.
C. W. Post.
John Wilson Wheeler.
TRANSPORTATION LEADERS.
George F. Baer.
August Belmont.
Alexander Johnston Cassatt.
George Henry Daniels.
George Jay Gould.
Clement Acton Griscom.
James J. Hill.
Melville Ezra Ingalls.
INVENTORS.
Alexander Graham Bell.
Charles Francis Brush.
Santos Dumont.
Peter Cooper Hewitt.
John P. Holland.
William Marconi.
George Westinghouse.
MERCHANTS.
Edward Cooper.
Robert Curtis Ogden.
Henry Siegel.
Frank W. Woolworth.
FINANCIERS.
William Waldorf Astor.
Henry Clews.
Mrs. Hetty Green.
John Pierpont Morgan.
John Davison Rockefeller.
Charles Tyson Yerkes.
POLITICAL LEADERS.
Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich.
William Jennings Bryan.
Arthur Pue Gorman.
Marcus Alonzo Hanna.
Carter Henry Harrison, Jr.
Joseph Wingate Folk.
LAWYERS AND JURISTS.
Frank Swett Black.
Frederick René Coudert.
James Brooks Dill.
Melville Weston Fuller.
John William Griggs.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
William Travers Jerome.
Joseph McKenna.
Alton Brooks Parker.
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.
Adna Romanza Chaffee.
George Dewey.
Robley Dunglison Evans.
Fred Funston.
Richmond Pearson Hobson.
Winfield Scott Schley.
William Rufus Shafter.
Joseph Wheeler.
EXPLORERS.
Evelyn Briggs Baldwin.
Frederick Albert Cook.
Sven Anders Hedin.
E. Burton Holmes.
A. H. Savage Landor.
Fridtjof Nansen.
Robert Edwin Peary.
Henry Morton Stanley.
Walter Wellman.
EDUCATORS.
Elisha Benjamin Andrews.
Nicholas Murray Butler.
Charles William Eliot.
William Herbert Perry Faunce.
Arthur Twining Hadley.
William Torrey Harris.
Henry Mitchell McCracken.
Woodrow Wilson.
EDITORS.
Henry Mills Alden.
Edward William Bok.
James Monroe Buckley.
Richard Watson Gilder.
George Burton McClellan Harvey.
George Howard Lorimer.
Whitelaw Reid.
Albert Shaw.
Henry Watterson.
PUBLISHERS.
Frank Nelson Doubleday.
Isaac Kauffman Funk.
William Randolph Hearst.
Edward Everett Higgins.
Louis Klopsch.
Samuel Sidney McClure.
Frank Andrew Munsey.
Joseph Pulitzer.
John Brisben Walker.
ORATORS.
Albert J. Beveridge.
Champ Clark.
William Bourke Cockran.
John Warwick Daniels.
Carl Schurz.
MUSICIANS.
Walter Johannes Damrosch.
Henry Lewis Reginald De Koven.
Maurice Grau.
Victor Herbert.
Leonora Jackson.
Franz Kneisel.
Maud Powell.
Theodore Thomas.
SINGERS.
David Scull Bispham.
Emma Calvé.
Zelie de Lussan.
Edouard de Reszke.
Jean de Reszke.
Emma Eames.
Lillian Nordica.
Adelina Patti.
Marcella Stengel Sembrich.
ACTORS.
William H. Crane.
John Drew.
William Hooker Gillette.
Nathaniel C. Goodwin.
James Keteltas Hackett.
Sir Henry Brodribb Irving.
Joseph Jefferson.
Edward H. Sothern.
ACTRESSES.
Maude Adams.
Viola Allen.
Ethel Barrymore.
Mrs. Leslie Carter.
Eleanora Duse.
May Irwin.
Virginia Harned.
Mrs. Lillie Langtry.
Julia Marlowe.
ORGANIZERS AND LECTURERS.
Cynthia May Westover Alden.
Clara Barton.
Francis Edward Clark.
Mary Lowe Dickinson.
Thomas Dixon, Jr.
Herbert Hungerford.
John Mitchell.
Ernest Thompson-Seton.
CANADIANS.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
Lord Strathcona.
ILLUSTRATORS.
William de Leftwich Dodge.
Charles Mente.
Thure de Thulstrup.
CARTOONISTS.
T. S. Allen.
Charles G. Bush.
Louis Dalrymple.
Sydney B. Griffin.
R. F. Outcault.
Carl E. Schultze.
Eugene Zimmerman.
HUMORISTS.
George Ade.
John Kendrick Bangs.
Samuel Langhorn Clemens.
Finley Peter Dunne.
Simeon Ford.
Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer.
George V. Hobart.
Melvin De Lancy Landon.
JOURNALISTS AND WRITERS.
Stephen Bonsal.
Richard Harding Davis.
Hamlin Garland.
David G. Phillips.
Charles George Douglas Roberts.
William Thomas Stead.
Vance Thompson.
Stewart Edward White.
Owen Wister.
POETS.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
Bliss Carman.
Richard Le Gallienne.
Robert Mackay.
Cincinnatus Heine Miller.
Henry Van Dyke.
CANADIANS.
Dr. William Osler.
Sir George A. Drummond.
AUTHORS.
James Lane Allen.
George Washington Cable.
Winston Churchill.
Francis Marion Crawford.
Rudyard Kipling.
Thomas Nelson Page.
Charles Major.
NOVELISTS.
Gertrude Franklin Atherton.
Amelia Edith Barr.
Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Pearl Mary Theresa Craigie.
Mary Eleanor Wilkins-Freeman.
Anna Katherine Greene.
Sarah Orne Jewett.
Constance Cary Harrison.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
REFORMERS.
George Thorndike Angell.
Susan Brownell Anthony.
Frederick St. George de Lautour Booth-Tucker.
Anthony Comstock.
Wilbur Fiske Crafts.
Elbridge Thomas Gerry.
William Reuben George.
Charles Henry Parkhurst.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
PHILANTHROPISTS.
Mrs. Phoebe Appersin Hearst.
Daniel Kimball Pearsons.
Mrs. Henry Codman Potter.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt.
Mrs. Russell Sage.
Mrs. Leland Stanford.
Anson Phelps Stokes, Sr.
DIVINES.
Lyman Abbott.
Theodore Ledyard Cuyler.
Edward Everett Hale.
Benjamin Fay Mills.
Henry Codman Potter.
William Taylor.
John Heyl Vincent.
CANADIANS.
William Peterson.
George A. Cox.
Timothy Eaton.
Sir Thomas G. Shaughnessy.
William S. Fielding.
Charles Fitzpatrick.
George William Ross.
Lord Mount Stephen.
FOOTNOTE:
TOPICAL INDEX.
Introductory Note.
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