The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-14
COBBLER'S BENCH PHILOSOPHY
IDEiS or GREENWUH W.
ItGE'S UOHiN sHOEN tkER.
Her CaIIInE = Good One for Women Ia
FOLLOW % More TOok u - Social
aSndIi tons Would he Better Feet
t.roN Ing BIgEer MAKING shoes NJ 80.

f'N' 49, $50 ''''' 'N- -
IA" only women shoemaker IN the city
Though we'll past 20 abe - siill hale ana
earns good living for herself and her
hourehold OF two small children ny max
ing and mending shoes
Yes. look out for the children. one
- NV gTandchild and the other my grand
niece, and both 81 them orphans. she
replied - the reporter question, !
don't make fortune by my work. but
] manaR" ~ get enough 10 provide plenty
~ eat. comfortable clothes and good
h"us" - liv" IN. That - more than some
- my neiEhhors do going ont to work
IN factories and IT, scrub the noorS Ia the
fine ONCE buildings
That's what they wanted me u do
when my husband disSl. ~ sell ont my
furniture. take a small room IN "A roomIng
nous" and 81 ont 10 work Nv the day.
didn't do u. because love INV own place
and want"d . make sure the shoes my
husband had promised Z" make were
inish'd as they should he.
'ph. ! cant remember when | first
began 10 work on shoes way back
when J was little girl used I" heip my
father. who had cobblers shop IN Lon
don He was German and my mother
was alao German. but was born IN Lon
don and lived there until We moved IN
America That was when was H. ana
! have been living mere IN New nork
ever since
Things were very different when We
came over from what they are now We
settled in little house on Pearl street
IN the front room 81 which was my father :
shop. Later when ] married man who
had served a. an apprentice" IN my father :
shop We moved up - greenwich village,
and h" opened shop ~ his own.
4 used 20 help my husband from time
Ia time when b" got IN more work than
b." could do alone and when b" was -"S
In my young days It was not uncommon
for women 10 work on Shoes ! knew q
number ~ women right here IN New York
Nhn used 10 work regularly sewing
the upp~rs. while IN New England. all
around Boston. II was common thing
That waS before machinery for making
shoes had hecom" t~rfec'
4 near people say N" reason shoes cost
more to-day than they did twenty years
ago - because N" leather - more eN-
prnstve That - only one II three rea-
-ors. Another reason - that labor -
higher N spit" ~ IN" machinery and
th"n n" feet ar" aiS" larger On. ye-
the feet ar" larger than they wer" twenty
and forty years az"
only last month Young lady Tor
whom my husband AID ! have l.sn max
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~ h""tr ana h"h .'i'N 'h'fs''' h"r grand-
mother s. 81 ! told her hat aside from IA"
difference 10 no est = the leather nor
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i"' Gi"hHil'''''' ~ ''' "E' E'i
down an old n"ok ~ my hu-hand ard
showed her ~" measurements ~ her
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lh"r" was 'ltH" "h"h NV hb-hHhd
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