Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-08

Dear Eatc.
Mrs. smith showed me how TO make
| bed Just right. and TO dust and sweep 10
iron the clothes and to do all the th'"sS
that women must know II they keep mouse
clean. But finally ahe said she though'
would do, and ono day she went over Town
10 a friend Of hers that lives up in the
Bronx What she told her I don't Know
but anyway 7 got a job and ] went over
10 my room and packed my things ana
have been here two months. II was hard
Mt first. as I didn't know how to manage
and couldn't make my head save my legs.
But / got along somehow although at
night used to be so dead tired that two or
three times I cried myself to sleep. The
woman ain't as nice as Mrs. Smith, she Is
kind Of Suspicious Of me, and watches me
a lot and she feels I ought to know more
than I do and tells me to do things without
telling me how. But I am going TO stick
it out Tho main trouble is that It is devlish
lonesome. At night after I get the dishes
done there amt N, place to 60 except a
little room which looks out on courtyard
and there rs nothing to do and nobody to
talk TO. and / set by myself trying to think
things all over Sometimes I think am a
fool 90 work like a dog a whole week and
only get six dollars for IT, and then again
remember an Mrs Smith said to me, and
the nice letters she writes me telling me to
be brave and r'at | am doing the square
thing My afternoons off I don't take be-
cause ] don't want to see the old crowd,
,1r fttvp
weeks / have been over to see Billy, but it
costs quito lot, and after | pay $3.50
week for his board. ! amt what you call
! y Rockefeller
I used always TO take The kid some little
thing but now it has to be so darned little
you can't see IT, The woman next door
has got baby and she knrs things for 1t,
and / asked the woman I worked for II she
would ask the woman TO learn me how to
knit She was awful nice about il, and
bought lot os white yarn, and nights up
i'm my room I made Billy and Paul each
Jacket and now | am making them some
mitteus so when It gets cold they can wear
them when they play outside. Next week
after I get my pay | am going to get some
OF that gray pusey yarn and make them
each a cap.
one night 7 got so blue l almost died, and
/ went downtown TO see Irene, who is back
from 81 Louis ! had an awful good time
a lot OF lellOWS ana girls CDme INTO lIthc =
room and | sent one Of the boys out for
some oysters and showed them some fine
stunts ! could do with the cha1ng dish
They was crazy TO know where ! was and
what ! was doing, but 7 wouldn't tell them,
as i knowed they wouldn't understand. !
-rnpose there is something wrong in me
somewhere, but it seemed awful nice 10
see all tho crowd again, and hear them
talk and laugh and even the old cigarette
smoke smelled good. There didn't one of
them aoem to have any trouble nor have
to work hard. and | thought Of how they
could sleep In the morning and how ! would
have to get UP when my old alarm clock
went off at half past six For a minute
thought | wouldn't go back, then l thought
Of Mrs. Smith and how bad she would fAa'
If ! didn't stick. so ! said, "Oh, me for nv
little room" and left the crowd at half paHt
ten sort Of tho middle Of the DAY for most
Of them. But ain't lecn unhappy thouEn
| didn't know there was SO little money in
the world. Why, 1t seems funny not to be
abe to buy anything at all when you look
in the shop windows and see all the fluffy
pett.c0ats and the pretty collars and the
silk stockings and the fancy shoes. and you
know YOU can't buy one Of them, it makes
you feel sore all over