Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-05
XXXIv

Dear Kate:
I have been house furnishing No, not
for myself, but for Charlie Haines who
lives across the hall from me- He is an
awful nice fellow and is working in the
General Electric and doing real good, He
told me he is getting seventy-five a month
now and was going to get married to
little girl he has been engaged to a long
time. way off in Vermont where he used
to live We had a heart to heart talk, and
I asked him all about her and found she
was just nice little girl who goes to
Sunday school and teaches the girls and
has never been farther away from home
than Brattleboro, wherever that is. He
thought of taking bigger room and room
ing for "A while but | told him not to be a
fool, and not to board neither.
Take a little girl from the country that
has always had something to do and put
her in room In a rooming house or a
boarding house, and she would go crazy or
get TO chasing around with the lazy women
who live in them places and If she was not
hne sort Of girl you can't tell where she
would land woman wants something to
do and then II amt no life for a man to
come home from work and have to chase
out TO restaurant for his grub or down
to long table of folks What he wants Is
to take of his coat and wash his face in
the kitchen sink and put on pair OF straw
slippers and set down smelling the beef
steak and onions frying In his own kitchen.
And they can talk without lot of people
rubbering and after supper he can help her
wash the dishes, and water the geranium
and then get in the morris chair and put his
feet on the radiator or window sill and
smoke and sing Home Sweet Home" He
oil Nl,. s4tR Il
then he sort Of shifted around and / tum-
bled to the fact that he hadn't saved much
money and didn't know how to get the
furniture | said, Nov, you just trust
your aunt Nancy, we will buy it on the in
stallment plan" ] found out he had only
about $25 after he had payed their fare
down here cause her folks are poor so l
said, We'll, We will go look up a nat. Bet
ter get out n ways so you will get more for
your money and we found pretty place
at 207th street for 500 a month. -Four
rooms and bath on the fifth floor and there
amt no elevator but they are both strong
80 IL won't hurt them to climb the stairs
and he will be so tickled to get home nights
that he won't think about them He wanted
to furnish it and have it all ready when
they come back he is going up to get her
and be married at her folks but | put the
nix on that, too. l said I'VE will furnish
the bedroom and the kitchen so as you can
have place to stay, but let her pick out
the fancy things like the parlor rug and the
dining room table. 1t will make Il seem
more like her own" and 50 he done every
thing / said.
They got back about five days ago and
say haven't we been the busy ladies'? She
is an awful nice little thing, has not got
much sense and green-well Kate Believe
| me, we are the funniest looking pair.
| guess she makes her own clothes and her
| hats-they must have been wished on her
| But like her and she is the happiest thing
| about the hat. She thinks 1t is the grandest
place she ever seen, / was right about let
| ting her pick her own things, as 1t has given
| her something to do, the first few days
| when she was kinda lonesome for her moth.
| er and little bit afraid of Charlie. We
| went to a place on 125th street and picked
| out the furniture, a real nice dining room
| table and a little sideboard, that looks like
| real mahogany, and six chairs. Got a
center table and nifty rug for the parlor
and a morris chair and a rocking chair, and
| got the bedroom furniture all white, and
| didn't we have fun buying kitchen things
| We went to the ten-cent store and bought
everything you ever heard of, from frying
| pans 10 egg beaters and We packed them
| home in the subway looking like immi
| grants just landed. She got the grandest
set Of dishes. 100 pieces for SS.95. Each