The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-25

/ houses up town. So you see don't want to
make them ashamed of their old mothers
Dragging.
! Il said it was a long time ago for I'm
getting on to eighty years Of age.
ITO begin at the beginning my husband
I and | sailed from ireland the day after we
1 were married We'd heard fine tales OF
/ America and we came over to make Our
/ fortunes. We had but few pennies when
we landed and besides our bundle Of clothes
and the few cooking things we'd used on
/ the voyage. I'd picked up two empty lot
| ties that some of the other passengers had
thrown away. We didn't have bottles to
throw away in the old country 50 it cams
| kind of natural to me not to want 20 see
1 them wasted.
My husband got a job as a mason and
/ I got a place as second cook in restau-
rant. IL made me open my eyes the way
| they threw things away in that Kitchen
| Empty bottles were hauled away in cart
/ loads along with the rest Of the refuse.
until by and by 1 got to picking them OUT
/ and taking them nome nights. | was OniP
at that place six months but during that
lime / saved up something like 900 beaI-
tiful bottles.
Then as my husbands work was steady
and the pay good / came home to keep
house for him and had time to think OF my
bottles II seemed such a shame to throw
them away. yet i didn't see what was 70
be done in a country wherc everybody got
rid Of them as soon as they were empty
After while I decided to try % sell them
to the places from which they we're orgi-
nally bought Many were wine bottles Sc
went to a wine merchant and told him Of
my lot He looked az me for a while then
he examined my bottles ard said il ley
were all as clean as that he would buy tbs
lot. but he'd rather 1 brought him cOrks to
sell as c0rks were harder to get than bot
ties
CT delivered TO him all the wine bottles I
had saved. then went around to the TestIu-
rant to see ny old friend. the cook. He
agreed to save as many COrks and bottles
as possible provided I would take them
off every day So used to 90 every morn
ing and bring away baskets full I washed
the bottles and boiled the corks and once
q week delivered them to the wine mer-
chant Then / made my trip to the saw
ings bank where I stored away my earn
iugs.
LAS time passed [ became more ambitious
and went about to other restaurants and -
other merchants. in the way Increasing
my business. / hired boy 10 fetch and
carry for me. and between times when at
ieAuiAs 10 lAs Il-i-ot1 e" OF DI.s @.'-- ,l.e
mouse 1 cle3Htu tAe 0'lties anu COINS. 4ul'
went on until had saved up several nun
dred dollars. lle Gay Jhat my youngest
girl was three weeks old they brought my
husband home dead. scaloldiug had Civ
en- away.
Those were dark times for ne. but I
had my children 90 look after All little
fellows just big enough to hold on to my
skirts. They might have taken the spirit
out of some women but they gave me heart
TO work. ana I made up ms mind TO buy
and sell all the empty bottles fin this town.
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