The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-03-12

all was my pigeons. ! had started
IL with a pair Of young pigeons
someone gave me, just after quit
school, and one day n motor car
broke down out in the road and
while they were fixing u the party
wanted lunch. found out that
pigeons we're salable. We hadn't
a thing TO eat in the house and no
chickens young enough to fry, so ]
told one Of the boys TO run out and
get a mess OF squads that we're just
about ready TO eat. We served them
with gravy on toast, and, oh, my, you
ought TO have seen those people eat.
Time not Your Own In the Town
One of them ran a big hotel In
town and he contracted right there
to take all I would deliver at good
price. SO I made little money out
Of pigeons. I had about enough TO
pay for a term at the business col
lege and after long spell OF coax
ing, pleading and crying, finally got
started for the city, with my little
old trunk and my promise TO mother
to write twice week.
Amy met me at the station, be-
cause IL was after business hours.
She explained that il the train had
not been late she would not
have met me. Seemed to me aw-
fully funny that girl could not
have time to run down to the depot
to meet friend; but ! learned bet
ter. Good land The things | had
to learn. Don't you know, the city
is just like a big panorama to a
country girl and il unrolls so fast
| before her and she is so tickled to
death at all the new things she sees
that she never does realize how
green she is until years afterwards.
Good thing, guess. She'd humili-
ate herself into an early grave If she
knew II at the time.
First thing | found different was
the water at my boarding house. |
boarded at house near Amys and
We went down together every morn
ing. | never did get a chance at
the college, for found place in
the same office with Amy distribut-
ing mail and licking stamps and be-
ing Office cat generally. thought
my bedroom with its gas and its
furnace mighty fine at first. |
learned later that il was a third
rate boarding house-how could ii
be anything else at the price they
asked? But | was used to nice, soft
cistern water and plenty of it. Cis-
tern water that made good suds
when you washed your hands, in
stead of leaving a thick, greasy
scum on the water. Why, | never
could get my face and hands clean
And the landlady gave you decided
hints not 10 use too much water
First time | ever heard of charging
a person for waterl
Inc Lure VI Inc ouOWy
At first | was so excited | used Ia
run downtown every noon hour, just
to see the shops and the people.
Just loved those glittering windows
that lured people in to buy things
they couldn't afford. And although
| had thought Amy about the very
top notch in the way of looks anC
dressing, | found that she was moi
, "A patching to some OF the girls il
town. Flimsy chifrons, delicate
plumes. silk dresses that we would
have kept for the finest of parties
were worn on the streets at all hour:
and in all weathers.
. spent about all my first week:
wages on dainty fruits and candle:
saw. had never been used to re-
Numbering that must pay for what
ate and drank and for the place
slept in. | never did get over the
feeling they were awful snitchy il
the restaurants to charge extra
when you wanted a second cup Of
coffee.
First of. my So a week seemed
lot of money. had never had Sc
much money every week before anC
| fell mighty rich and began to plaI
for all the pretty clothes was go
ing TO get and the shows | was going
to see.
But my land, this is how my
money went-and il isn't every CIR
who can find a job at So a week fol
beginner either.
High Cost of Living Hit Her
had to pay $3.50 for board. My
carfare came TO at least seventy
cents a week and if | wanted to &C
anywhere on Sunday afternoon il
was Lore. My laundry was fifty
cents a week-think of charging
anybody for washing a few clothes
| used to wash out my own hand
kerchiefs and paste them on the
windOw-to iron; but my shirtwaistS
and underwear came to fifty cents
Just the same. Then with the clos
n A.