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aheville Cotton A.11
::ostieville, N. C.
Aigust 10, 1938
I. L. M.
.'t DAY FACT0i1Y hILL
-You'd 11::e to know whet a day in my life is like? ell, taint
no trouble attal for me to tell you because every one is so much like
the other :'ve learned the pattern by heart long gep.
ink goes to work at sevea. I get up at helf past five to get
his breakfast iho's not to be ranted and so's we can have a few minutes
for tolkin' before he lemma.
"Ivory mornin' I cook oats for the younguns. They like it and
hit's cheep. o and hi eats it too, but now and agin we get a little
bacon meat. body just seems to want a little bacon meat ones or
twice
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week. The Children aint learnel to crave it yit. They get
they hear the diehes rattlin', and we're done with breakfast
little after six. metims they tint much to talk about ',:ad we
jest set.
..f.fter he's gone t4elp tha younguns dress ,ne. then start cleanin'.
'Gin git the dishes one the beds mods, rL the floors swept, its
nine o'clock olmost time to start cleanin, agin. You see, them oil
bein' girls except the baby, I have to keel_ 'em in the house most of
the tile becouae the boys hround her play so rough I'm afraid my girls'll
git hurt it they play with them. Then, too, they's no plasm for children
to plKy but the roA out there ,,oad hit's full of black cinders put there
to keep the rilv,d from waahin' worse than it is•
-most doys n_ und. half oast nine I start thin' :ink's dinner.
leave here at half past eleven to take,it to hi.. Fie works in the dye
room and the kitties bee to be kept bollist all the tine. He esiat
take so tine off, and be eats statterin.-like when theirs a sleek in
his work.
-whea I git book from the mill as and the younguss eat. Most days
it's biscuit -bread, potatoes, and beeps of one kind or another. After
I'm dons with the dishes I ewsh or iros or maybe sew when they's any-
thing to sew on. The other day bought a quarter's worth of cloth end
I've just finished sakin' a dress spies. out of it for thee two least
ones. I usually look at a picture in a setalogue mad sat ma a paper pat.
tern from it. Most times they tit right well.
"Two evenings a week I wash, and even then I lint able to keep my
children noway. like clean. I don't rookie they's a dirtier plass in
the world to live than here. IS takes two evenings, too, for ironin'.
"At four l'olosk Pink seises hone from the sill. In a little while
I start tittle' sapper. we gesily set Wort half pest five. When I'm
done with the dishes es and bin seta in the swing and watches the young-
uns play. A body don't eves visit their neighbors because they'd feel
foolish dein' it. we ere that 'mewed up together we ow, one another
too much aayway. Rarely a day pokes thmt every one of us don't see
the other run out and grab her younguns out of a fight. Like as not we'll
meet one another enptyisg trash is then big garbage cans put out there
by the still. Mo they's no reason slush for visitin' in the *venial."
"Around half past seven or eight I put the children to bed and as
end him sets on till about half past eight or nine.
"He's sleepins this manner on the single bed in the front rem=
Usually he sleeps with then two biggest ones end I sleep with the two
least ones, but they4re so froney-like durin0 hot weather, bit keeps
kin from sleapin' as much ea he outer and his workin.t
"Next day starts liar the one before and ands about the saes. Of
course, on Yridays and Saturdeys hits a little different. Beth of as
enjoys Westerns and we gengy go case a meek to the pieture show. I
go on Triday night ehile be stays with the children awl then he goes
on Saturday. They's always a bullish of women gels' as Triday and I go
along with them. Nit'd be nice if me snd bin email go together sometimes
but they's nobody to leave the children with. If it wasn't for that
movie I don't know what I'd do. Course, wepaint really able to spend
the lb spies, for foolishresa when he's just nakin' nine dollars and
sixty moat a week, but a body Geist stead it if he don't have a little
pleasure sometimes.
"Pink just gets three days a week in the mill now, but we got up
at the same time on the days be don't work. He's so tired slice they
put on the stretch -out that ha lays around the house rind rests a good
bit *ken he's off. .5;onetimes be goes down to the stare and sots Log
talks with other man fro* the Hill. The past spring he made then two
swiuging bones out of old oar talks mid gat him sone red paint from the
ten-oent store to pdst 'en with. They make food boxes for petunias.
He hauled me dirt trma 7,est Asheville to make then two flower beds by
the doorsteps. That's his truek settle' out there but we don't use
it mush sinee they's no nosey for gas. Nit used to be a ear but be
fixed a body on to it. I put oat a sight of diming **kin' beds Dor
them petunias and phlox but no phase means like home without 8 few
Tlowers.
"The year gees rousd bringins very little change but the weather.
Poor folks don't have no venation, you know, when they's tine off front
cooking, and washing, sad worrying about the gAeoery bill. The only
nosey I've sport for pleasure this year went for the picture dhow and
for %ken flowers. I'm glad ny flews as SD well. Rit's nieer settino
on the poreh when they's sensthins to look at besides a red, ugly hill."