The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-29

own things in the sink. A girl
Ahat works in a laundry can't af-
ford to send her own clothes there.
II you get anything out of it, it
would be different. But you don't.
It's all you can do to break even,
and you see yourself doing the same
thing all your life, and You don't
have any fun. Half the time you
don't even get quite enough to cat.
| don't mean you go hungry. You
know what mean. Or maybe you
don't know.
Prison Fares Better.
Say, yesterday a lady. one Of
those professional visitors, came
here while we were eating dinner
and sort OF turned up her nose
sympathetic like when the matron
wasn't looking. and said to me,
my dear, do you find the prison
fare hard?"
What the heck? Soup and hot
beef and potatoes and apple sauce
for dessert. Clean, too! And milk,
tea or coffee, which ever you want,
just like you were in a restaurant.
Now, / ask you, amt that hard for
a poor working girl? Hard maybe
for DANES that eat at the Ritz, but
1t tastes pretty good to me. 1t is
hard, believe me, to be in Jail, but
it's not because of the food.
How do they think / used to eat?
Twelve dollars week is what
was living on before / married Ed.
Six Of 1t went for rent, a by 4
furnished room--furnished with q
cot-bed and a chair and bureau
you could hardly crowd in 1t, and q
little gas stove piled on top of that
at 439 Franklin avenue, Brooklyn.
1t was hardly twice as big as this
cell I'm in now. You got to have
clothes. You got to have shoes.
You got to have carfare when 1t
rains. What do you think that
leaves out of $12 to eat on?
Took Wrong Chance.
They keep saying it was phony
what told them about turning ban
dit for my baby.
ASK yourself, maybe, would you
steal or not, II you were going to
have baby, and saw chance of
saving 1t from a life like that?
took the wrong chance, the wrong
way, | know, and I'm sorry I did
1t, but l wanted to do something,
"AAu IAoAo uAu IA SSSul any InlnS
else.
Say, please. / don't want ito be
sloppy or fake. l own up right here
to the other things, too. I wanted
better clothes for myself; l wanted
nice furniture and a home instead
OF a furnished ballroom, and there
were times / had a lot of fun being
a bandit and thinking of all the nice
doo.dangs Ed and / could get for
ourselves. But, somehow, IL It had
not been for the baby, we would
have never done it. Maybe we knew
all the time It was wrong, and may.
be 1t was the baby coming that
helped us persuade ourselves we had
the right. l can't say 1t the Way
want to, but maybe you will get
how / felt.
was saying something Just now
about food. l want to go back to
that. For most of five years l ate
on ~ to "a a week, and sometimes
less. How do you do it? Here's
how.
Try This to Save.
First of all, a half dozen eggs.
You buy them Saturday night. and
have one for breakfast every morn.
ing every day except Sunday when
you lie in bed late. You have coffee,
with condensed milk, not the evapo.
rated kind, because the Condensed
Is sweet and saves sugar. You get
a can for nickel, and II lasts a
week. Every night on the way
nome, YOU buy a loaf of bread.
You have bread and coffee and an
egg Tor breakfast. It's the best
meal OF the day, and If you start
working at 8 in the morning, It's
when you need 1t most. You slice
OH four slices OF the same loaf and
take 1t with you to the factory, with
lOc worth Of bologna or something.
Tor lunch. At night you come home