The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-26
Gl!Rsa4LI a IN TH HE E IA Nj
BURTON

housework and making herself a
useful - possible n the creamery
across tho street
After she had helped Anna with
the breakfast dishes she would
hurry down % the corner Il Clay
Street and Twenty.hfth Street,
which vas tho main thorouxhfare
Of the South Side, and buy ! morn.
Ing paper. She would 20 down the
columns marked "Help Wanted
Female and put . little pencil
mark after the positions that she
thought she might b able % I'LL.
Thero were very few Of them.
she could not typewrite and sho
Knew nothing about shorthand. %
the ONCE jobs ware closed % her.
She knew that It would Be useless
70 answer ACCOMPLISHMENTS an rsad
.Experienced 4illiners Wanted" or
Fine Opportunity for Woman
With Small Capital 70 Put into
Growing Business.s She I'D
neither experience nor capital.
Ono morning m advertisement
headed Wanted: Marker Girl for
Laundry caught her eyes and aha
went % answer It In 4 taxicab hon
ing % get there ahead Of any other
epplicants. "Marker girl for laun.
dry" sounded simple, % IL almost
anyone could become one. But
when she reached the laundry, .
one-story. whitewashed building
with Sunbeam Laundry painted
AL across it, front, the position
had been filled. So had . place "a
2 photographers studio BY thu
time she got there, and she vent
back 70 Anna's and cried tears Of
encouragement g she cut up the
potatoes and cabbage and chuck
beet for the Swedish stew that
Anna had at least once . week for
dinner.
Dinner WAS eaten ct noon IN the
Herbst house, and at six o'clock
the family sat down 70 supper, q
meal that consisted usually 81 left
overs from dinner supplemented 81
thick crusty slices Of pan-rye
bread and fresh hot coffee ealEe.
The Herbgts washed down ever
meal with coffee and the biz cray.
granite-ware pot stood on tho back
ot the kitchen stove oil day.
After supper Anna and old Mrs.
Herbst would cr0ss the muddy yard
. Joe's house with . tray Of food
for Elva, his pretty, dark-eyed
American wife. Sometimes Herhsf
and Anna would dress themselyee
II their beat clothes, which always
smelled family Of uaothballs, and
walk over 70 the Scandinavian Club
% dance or play cards. On Sum
day nights they went % the Ger.
man Turn" hall On Twenty-nfth
Street.
Susan and Ars. Herbst would III
u the living room until eight or
nine o'clock. talking. In her broken
English the old woman would tell
Susan about her girlhood il thu
Rhine country Of Germany With
lte hillsides Of grapes and it, sun
shine. "AlWayS am 6lled With
'sehnsucht' for the old country
lhe would SAY wistfully. sThis
America-mit it, bakers 'brot' and
e !so a :: 2 the women shall not
a. ~ NOT n II, fond - -.
Ella vho rsv.r eee ~ ILL = -
IA hsked : io.f - Sr.sa y = ns..
.s-s sIa aoa p Dfeso OF IN
cent al her sheets ma snnsads -
the vet wash eyery veak n von
could believe Eel
@Neiu, and I do not Ike TIA v.~
she paints, Even in "a hsd "a m
up and eurls her hair" she would
say disapprovingly. "When I was
young ! only wash the face and put
tho hatr down NIT lard, and it ID
oswuQ. Absr the Elva-" and she
Mouia tarow her old hands IN the
~ % 1olcase Just how hopeless
80 ~ M1s ~ e ner opinion.
ts1 enc essed susan one night
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