The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-09
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things shall soon be arranged for
the best good and the best COM
Tort Of ALL to our dear SON."
Yes, sir" said Gladys, fright
1ully Mustered because she knew
that never in this world could she
remember all of that like that.
Cecily, a fairly pretty little girl
even at 3 years old, and soon to be
prettier, pulled at the tassel on the
baby's shoe and said: Father won't
understand He hasn't understood
anything for three days. 1t is the
levers fault They are afraid
mother may have contracted it."
She ducked her chin lower and
blinked her long lashes up and
down over her gray eyes.
Grand opened the doors again and
with bow and gesture babe Gladys
Clapp benevolent good afternoon.
Mind the third step" he called.
The third step was broken right
down in the center.
II n
A WOMAN named Josephine
L N Loehden was working for
Grand and Rosalie at that time.
When she had come a year ago
to apply for the position of gen.
eral houseWorker in the FenWick
mansion, she had said, my name
IS Josephine LOehden. When I work.
work. When I sleep I sleep. 1
do more work with one hand than
most women do with two hands.
But 1 want my pay"
When she quilted the FenWick
mansion, five months after the day
Gladys had brought the children
to live with their grandparents, she
made much the same speech.
When 1 work, 1 work." she said.
When I sleep, I sleep. I am not
dog. For five months I have worked
Ike a dog. Now will go and sleep
tCr five months and I will not be
rested. And I want my pay"
Rosalie had explained again,
sweetly and patiently, that Jo-
sephine should have her pay-to-
morrow, perhaps; certainly next
week, and she had added, with a
touch of sorrow and regret, that,
considering the deep regard she had
felt through the years for Joseph
inc, and the things she had done
for Josephine, it seemed past I'M
Outstanding that Josephine now
should leave her in the lurch.
Josephine Loehden had replied,
Always you have been behind with
my pay. You were behind with
my good friend Mrs. Joe Otis pay
when 1 came here. You are now
three months and one week behind.
Before I would stay longer in this
house would go up the hill and
sit under the tall trees"
She had lAft by the back door,
minding the bSck steps, because the
back steps were in need of repair.
A procession of houseworkers fol-
lowed, after that: Women who
came through the front dotor and
left through the back door rapidly
and to march time. One with a
deformed shoulder, whose name
was Christina Eugenia Passafiume,
stayed for more than a year before
she went away through the front
door and OH a stretcher to the am
bulance that took her to the charity
hospital.
Three months later, Christina
Eugenia PassafiumeS lawyer Cf you
pleased threatened suit against
Jonathan Fenwick for $3.50, six
months unpaid salary due to his
client. Grand sold one of the few
remaining lots, on which he had
kept the taxes paid, and the affair
was settled, promptly and quietly
and out of court.
ann knew nothing of this, but
the talk with Rosalie, precipitated
nc least by Miss Fumes insolence,
marked a turning point in AIMS
life. She was 16 years old, by this
time, and in her freshman year at
Reed college, where John Fenwick
had taught and was we'll remem-
bered.
Darling" Rosalie began, I've
been thinking today-such jolly,
merry little thoughts They have
flown about me all day long like
sweet wee song birds. Biddie birds"
Gin a lower registeD. do you know
what they have been singing to me-?
independence, over and over. IN
dependence, and chumminess" (Ann
shuddered slightly but Rosalie did
not notice., and sharing one an
others burdens, and-um-all that
sort of thing, you know"
Il
A mn said, "Oh?" Rosalie sat and
IN smiled with her tiny Cupid's-
bow mouth, embedded away up
above the first of her three chins,