The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-08-26
A GOLD MINE ON YOUR FARM.
Read How These Girls Found Theirs
and Then Look for Yours.

In a newspaper that had come
wrapped around something-and
remember now that that thing was
canned corn. which We should have
gorwn and put up ourselves-we saw
an advertisement for girls to work
in factory that made fruit boxes
and crates. When We decided to go
mother cried some, and father said
we'd soon come home when we found
We had to work.
We had to walk two miles to the
factory, which was in ----, town
of about 800 people. We were to
get So week each.
That first week was very hard for
US, and night time found US almost
too tired to walk home. But that SO
coming to us Saturday night would
have made us, who had never owned
as much as a 50-cent piece in our
lives, walk through fire and water,
think. The first Saturday night we
walked home on air, happy and rich.
Something in mothers look when We
got there made ME offer her half my
earnings. The other two did the
same. Mother held then in her hand
more money than she had ever called
her own at one time before or after
her marriage, and she broke down
and cried. That does not sound kind
to my father, who IS good man. and
always wants to do his best, but he
had old-fashioned notions about his
providing for the women, and their
not needing any money of their own.
I know now that a great deal Of a
woman's self-respect and industry
comes from having a little money Of
her own.
Now this is how we turned from
our foolish ways. l. had rained all
week and one day the bridge was
gone and We could not get home. We
went back up to a white painted
house and the woman said We could
stay there all night.
We could not cross the river for a
week, but we did not care, for we
were having fine things to eat-smok-
ed ham and corned beef and all kinds
of preserves and canned fruit and
vegetables. On day one Of my sisters
said they must be pretty rich to have
all those things. The woman smiled
and said she was rich, and would
show US how rich she was after
breakfast.
She took US later to a room in the
back of the house. 1t had shelves all
around it, and was filled with hun
dreds of glass jars and tin cans OF
everything from corn to raspberries.
There were stone jars of things and
all kinds of meats, dried herbs and
bottles of fruit juices. She said, II
am rich in the energy to grow these
and put them up. You girls are just
as rich but you don't know it."
l believe that the seeds of ambition
are in every one, and they were in US.
Our ambition started to grow right
there. Before the end of the week it
was arranged that l was to stay and
help her for. 50 week and she was
to teach me.
learned just everything that fall.
For Christmas she gave me "The Pro-
gressive Farmer" and starting OF
hens and lot of garden seeds. That
was five years ago.
I expect l am pretty proud to tell
you about it, but see so many girls
just like we were that just must do
it, and maybe they will try to do what
we are doing.
We have three cows and five pigs,
and two calves and almost 800 hens.
We have a fine garden and canning
outfit with a supply of tin cans and
two gross of glass jars in which we
put the things we show at the fair
and eat at home
And what is best we can sell all the
butter and meat and eggs and other
things we have for the highest price.
Of course, we could not have done
this without the help of what we
read and what the State officials have
done to help us. One man came and