The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-12-10
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Or. J. Lawrence Hill

three cents. There is no waste in
this business either or course ]
work long hours | am here before &
o'clock So taat the crowds going @
worK may nnt be missed. From thai
hour until the children so TO school
am kept quite busy.
Another busy hour is ihe noan
hour and the final busy hour is be-
tween 10 and / when ihe crowds are
retu ming home from iheir pleasures
Of the eyening. and a boy or girl viii
buy Il sweet potato or baked apple,
Just as a boy or ghl ia another part
OF the city would buy a package q
gum
Near an elevated ralroad sIatiou
eu the Rowery TWO women We're li-
most facing cach other with little
stands which could BIZ lifted us by a
child Of G. on eaeh stand there was
a iittle box of the Kinds Of eaudies
which "a into ihc making ~ of q
lunch bag and are solo Tor one cent
/ each. phe canial which These Wont
pn had invested. IN thpi candy could
MOI have been more than twenty-five
cents each liow could ihoy make u
+ living? Well here Is how
II seldom take In more illan toflN
conis 4 day olc of the Wonlen. Who
was 4 widow aud the mother Of tour
children. explained "but then Nod
snow All ms caildrcn are worklng.
,hat Il selling things ln the streets
4 after school and Saturdays and sun
DAYS. The older child Is not IA, so
have IA one yet 70 send 70 shop.
"One SELLS handkerchiefs another
letter papes and envelopes AT tne
end Of the day each one brings ten
fifteen. sometimes twenty cents. Add
my forty cents to 1t and we nave a
days wages the wages OF an ordinary
pom laparer
oOf course I would rather go te q
shop or set some other occupation
where I oONd earn . dollar p uaY e'
more, but you see I cannot make uI
ny mind 10 80 away from the mouse
FOX whole day and leave my chill
lren alone.
rhls way only SD here certain
parts OF lAe day ! can run INTO ny
house about III O'Clock and prepare
dinner Ter my children, who come
rom school At O'clock ! come 4
again. give them their supper ane
Gx them cut for the street with th'
articles they are to peddle.
"At night when they come from
work am nor TOO tired 10 look afse
ihe needs of each ant every one @
them, % find out where they hav'
been that particular evening, wha
adventures or misadventufes hav
happened 10 them and 10 warn then
10 be good and honest aud to keel
away from gangs and bad company
How long have been doing TIM
busnessg Ever since the death Q
: my husband three years ago.
The woman paused for a momen
as if to review the array OF event
ana hardships with followed he
husbands death and then added Wit
sigh. as x seeking 10 comfort hel
sell
But things will change soon Al
other winter and my older boy wi
"a 10 work He is a g0pd boy goo
IA spite az The had company whic
bis pcadling in the street nalWail
throws him In with, and ] hope =
viii yet put ns All right
Tho woman opposite Che wldo
I was murh Younger. She had two u
ne children. both of wnom Wet
[ hanging 10 her skirt paelly lo cxcii
r sympathy and boost trade and paftl
hecause thcre was ne one TO TAX
I care ut lhem IN nc house Th
woman had + husband living, hl
: away flnni New York Some Fl,
!, months ago he left, rs he said K
caieaan 20 look Tor work therc an
+, Is send for his wife and children
I soon as he had gel work That vi