Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-03-12

this kind. and an odd job now ana
then.
Nov if you could let US have some
thing 10 eat | am going 10 make
along all right. What | need is Il
pair of shoes 10 go out on the picket
line" Her single pair OF shoes were
tfodden down. impossible to walk On
the picket line with these.
How much do you make we
asked?
sixteen thirty" she answered.
Not much, when you think that
there are seven of US and the babies
have got to have milk and shoes
She was a comedy woman and cheer
full. She sat there and told this
amazing story of unbroken bad luck,
desertion, underpay, her mothers ill
ness, her fathers unemployment IN
the most terrifying matter of course
way. This was the way life was.
Most of the people she knew were
like this.
II don't need COAL" she added. 81
90 out with an old sack and get coal
off dumps" We walked away through
slushy streets.
"She hasn't got it so bad as some, >
the relief worker commented, shes
got her rent" He pushed open door.
THE smell is fierce" he said, as
the foul air pushed out at US. These
tenements are fierce. The woman
where we're going, she keeps her
rooms clean. She's a nice woman.
But she's not lucky. She was IN the
hospital three months and three days
after she went to work comes the
strike" She was a kindly, middle
aged woman and smiled in friendly
fashion at us. Near the stove sat
her husband. He was bent over, his
skin was yellow, his blue eyes were
sunken into hiss head. He had not
worked for four years.
"He has a cough. He sits all day
near the stove and gets the kids
meals. That's all he can do The
strike relief had sent a doctor there.
His instructions lay on the table
Thew read,
"Go to bed until fever has past"
"He won't go to bed. He's had a
good deal of fever these last four
years. He worked in the mills as long
as he could-before he got his cough,
Sitting by table was a calm-eyed
little girl with wheat colored han
flowing down her back. She was
thirteen and large for her age. She
was the kind of little girl that make.
YOU think of the country. She looked
as if she belonged there. She was sc
TRANQUIL and quiet with her blue eyes
and gentle ways. How had she got
ten along through the months thai
her mother was sick in the hospital
and her father too sick to work. Hel
fourteen year old brother had some
how or other managed to scrapt
enough money together for the three
of them. The wonder of 1t was now
good a home they had because they
had made of these three rooms at Inc
top of the sinking stairs a home
They had almost nothing unless you
can put courage in bank, and an
account of serene gallantry as among
your belongings. In the midst of tins
spirit-breaking sickness and mstof-
tune they had the audacity to have
begonias growing in pots as well as
some feathery leaved plants whose
name they only knew in Polish. AND
thew had a kitten. One thing they
didn't have was any complaints. They
were a little apologize about having
to have relief, but they explained VIII
the mother having only worked thref
days they had to have something
The mother smiled and nef eyes
lighted. The relief investigator turned
to the English members of the com
"She says how glad she is going to