Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-12-19
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sons, and a relative with her
two children the mother and
father took in because she had
no place else to live. With these
members of the household, this
story has no concern. Not real
ly, because three of the grown
sons won't stir themselves to
work, and the others-well
boss, let's face 1.-THE ones who
huddle together in these three
rooms spend what money they
get on whooping it up together
on the fruit Of the grape.
It's the fourth room and its
occupants with which this story
Is concerned. You see, in the
fourth room is the daughter Of
the house, her husband. and
their five children. Except, now
there are only four children, be.
cause, as / said, a little boy died
this week.
The mother Is under Is. a
pleasant, neat, honest girl. And
this fourth room of the house
Is her home and it's different.
or course, there isn't much
room to live, but the walls have
been recently painted and it
looks neat. Even the old beaten
up furniture has received occa-
sional coats of paint to make
1t look better. There's a little
kerosene stove for heat and the
concrete floor has been covered
with someone's discarded scat
ter rugs.
In addition to beds, there are
two other things in the room.
An old refrigerator and a sec.
ond hand television set. Around
the refrigerator is a chain, held
in place with a paddock. It's
there because, sometimes,
others around the place raid
her refrigerator and leave moth
Ing to be fed to her children
when she returns.
She used to have an electric
iron but not now. There is cleo
tricity in the house, except
when its turned off for non
payment of bills. But, anyway,
she bought an electric iron be-
cause keeping her children as
clean and neat as she does, re-
quires lot of ironing. It Just
happened that one day when
she was away working and the
electricity was turned off, some
OF the other adults wanted to
iron. So, they cut the cord off
her iron and heated it on the
cookstove. OF course, 1t couldn't
be fixed after that.
The daughters husband Is a
hardworking young man. He
works every day unless he's laid
off because Of weather. Neither
Of them participate in the wine.
imbibing festivities of the other
three rooms.
For four long years, boss,
they have been looking for a
place to live. 1t doesn't matter
where it Is, or what it Is. Just
a place where they can bring up
their children and not have
them kept awake half the night
by the goings-on in the other
part of the house; just a place
where they can put milk in the
refrigerator and be sure it's
there when the children are
hungry. They even figure they
can pay from $40 to $50 a
month rent. But there's no
place to go. Not even in the
public housing development in
Rockville where they've had an
application pending for two
years.
Two weeks ago, the next to
the youngest, the little three
year-old boy, came down with
sniffles. It's hard to keep chill
dren from having colds in a
place like that. The mother car
ried' him to the doctor immed.
lately. She's a very conscienti-
GUS mother and tries to take
good care of her brood. The doc.
tor gave him "a needle" The