nted her house and went into
rooms that she might send to Hungary all the money she could make over
expenses, and for a year this money was increasingly difficult to
collect, or even to make. But if she despaired no one heard of it. She
hung on. By and by the financial tide turned for the country at large
and she was one of the first to ride on the crest. Her business is now
greater than ever, and her interest in life as keen.

III

BELLE DA COSTA GREENE

This "live wire," one of the outstanding personalities in New York,
despite her youth, is the antithesis of the two previous examples of
successful women in business, inasmuch as no judge on the bench nor
surgeon at the Front ever had a severer training for his profession
than she. People who meet for the first time the young tutelar genius
of Mr. Morgan's Library, take for granted that any girl so fond of
society, so fashionable in dress and appointments, and with such a
comet's tail of admirers, must owe her position with its large salary
to "pull," and that it is probably a sinecure anyway.

Little they know.

Belle Greene, who arrests even the casual if astute observer with her
overflowing _joie de vivre_ and impresses him as having the best of
times in this best of all possible worlds, is perhaps the "keenest on
her job" of any girl in the city of New York. Let any of these
superficial admirers attempt to obtain entrance, if he can, to the
Library, during the long hours of work, and with the natural masculine
intention of clinching the favorable impression he made on the young
lady the evening before, and he will depart in haste, moved to a
higher admiration or cursing the well-known caprice of woman,
according to his own equipment.

For Miss Greene's determination to be one of the great librarians of
the world took form within her precocious brain at the age of thirteen
and it has never fluctuated since. Special studies during both school
and recreation hours were pursued to the end in view: Latin, Greek,
French, German, history--the rise and spread of civilization in
particular, and as demonstrated by the Arts, Sciences, and Literature
of the world. When she had absorbed all the schools could give her,
she took an apprenticeship in the Public Library system in order
thoroughly to ground herself in the clerical and routine phases of the
work.

She took a special course in bibliography at the Amherst Summer
Library School, and then entered the Prince