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SOUTH CAROLINA WHIMS* PROJECT
LIFE HISTORY
TITLE: WE roux THE SEA."
Date of first writing March 1, 1939
Name at Person interviewed Mrs. Thelma Wingate (White)
Fictitious nano Teekla Adams
Street Address 62 Church Street
Plaee Charleston,S.C.
Occupation Stono-elsork
Name of Writer Rose D. workman
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Almost everybody calls her Teekla, although the
has been married, diverged, and is the mother of two bluv.eyed
youngsters, Leila, aged seven and ddie, six.
Tickle Adams at thirty...0mo is one of those lively,
happy..gaelucky persons always spoken of as a girl, long after
girlhood has been left behind. She is affectionately known
to her co-workers as "String Bean, "Tall Drink of Water,*
"Spoon," and many other names suggested by her long, lean
lankness.
Teasing never males her mad, however, and die:looks
up from her desk with a friendly smile in reply to any name
one calls her, and is almnye:ready to perform the many favors
people continually ask of her, though it means allying O'er
time to catch lapAr6A/LYber vett Unfinished. work.
"All my people follow the sea, says feskla. "Pi,
is a sail maker by trades Bat When steam took the place of
sails, the sail business was knocked to pieces, and Pop went
to work for the government as a lighthouse keeper.
"I remember to this day how scared I was when
storms would bit our little island and sever it with water.
The waves would be mountain high, and I'd think every one
was going to wash us into the sea.
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I'd glue my nose to the window, and duck when I saw a big
one earning," she laughed.
Tickle remembers climbing with her baby feet,
the many twisting stairs to watch her father light the
kerosene lamp in the tower at rundown. Of the three men
assigned to the lighthouse, one must be always on duty
to see that the light was properly trimmed and burning,
so that ships night not miss its guiding gleam.
"Pop was born in Norway, t 'Rye Teckla," and
when we were kids we loved to hear bin tell of how he
used to go to sea on the sailing vessels that pat out
from the Norway ports.
"He didn't get much education, because he bad
to hustle for himself when he was just a little kid, but
he knows lots more than plenty of people who've been to
**lieges because bels been everyWhere and soon everything
for himself."
"'rookie says," Pop's done lots of interesting
things in his life." In the Spanish-American War he was
a diver and often engaged in the basardous task of destroy.
tag enemy sine fields.
"When Pop gave up his lighthouse job to go to
sea again," 'rookie continued," we moved back to Old Town.
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Mama's father was a life-saver at the lighthouse station
just across the bay. Be and Grandma Brioksoweame over here
from Sweden before llama was born, so Mama's lived right in
this section all her life. She finished at the same high
school I did.
"I remember Grandma Brickson used to make us
children all sorts of Swedish dishes when we were little.
I liked prate boot of all. That's a pudding made with prunes,
cornstarch, and oinnamon stick, with cream or milk poured
over it. At Christmas she always made sweet soup tor dinner
I forget what she used to oall that and did I love /Sighing
out the prunos and raisinst We've never had that since Grandma
died," she sighed regretfully." I don't know why. But we
still have smelts and Swedish rye bread for supper every
Saturday night. The broad is imported from the Old Country,
and is about six inches across. Smelts are little fish
pickled with onions, you know. We buy them by the kegobut
everybody likes them so mush that we can hardly keep any in
the house.
"Another thing Grandma used to make for us was
forecore That's a boiled dish made of alternate layers
of cabbage and meat. We still have that a lot, bemuse the
children like it."
Today big bland Captain Neilson runs a string of
freight boats, hauling vegetables from the sea -islands where
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they are grown, to the city, for shipment to the northern
markets.
"It's fine having fresh vegetables for the table
all the time,"says Teekla." They certainly help to fill the
kids up. Pop brings in fresh eggs and chickens from the
country, too."
Teckla finished high 'whoa, taking the oommercial
course. After graduation the wont to work an cashier in a
dairy, earning fifteen dollars a week.
Quick at figures, she liked the work, and was at
ono* on friendly terms with the young farmers who dropped
in at the dairy to market their eggs, butter and milk.
Soon she was receiving invitations to parties, dances, and
oyster roasts out on the neighboring plantations.
When Tookla fell in love with Ted Adams, her family
opposed the match from the start.
"He lust wasn't in our class," said her sister,
Freida, discussing the marriage.
Ted was working in a grocery store at a salary of
twenty dollars a week when he and Teekla insane engaged. On
Saturday nights he worked until almost twelve, and so at mid-
night one Saturday the two were married, and went away for a
short wedding trip to the mountains of Sorth Carolina.
Ted had a stepmother whom he adored, and when they
returned from the honeymoon, they went to live with her.
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But Tockla took one of her rare dislikes to Nrs.Adams, and
Mrs. Adams returned tho feeling with interest, so that from
tho first the young couple led an unhappy home lifeopunctuated
by frequent sharp quarrels. Teckla blames MrsAdams for
these bitter disputes which were constantly upsetting the
routine of family life.
She says that if she dared go out without first
telling her mother-in-law exactly where she was going4 what
she planned to do; and how long she intended to stay, that
the old lady would telephone Ted and make a big mystery of
her going off alone, concluding with some such statement:
"Bad I better phone around a little and see if
I can find out where she is?"
At last matters came to a head in a final family
row. Teckla walked out, rented a small flat, and bought
some furniture on the installment plan. She was much happier
now, and they seldom quarreled any more, except on those
occasions When fed gave expression to his ever present desire
to return to his step -mother's home.
At the end of a year or two Tooklats careful manage.
mint had enabled them to lay aside enough to start a small
grocery business for themselves. Boon after they opened the
shop, little Leila was born, and a year later, kiddie.
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Male laughingly says that "They had bets up on
Palmetto Row when Leila was born, whether I'd live or die.
I've got a bad heart, and I'm not so terribly strong anyway.
I ran a big risk to have those kids, but I wanted children
and I'm glad I took the chance."
Tockla found life very full in those early days
of her marriage, Marketing, cooking, sweeping,sewing and
baby -tending kept her busy constantlyebut she never complain-
ed of missing the fun she had been accustomed to in gitihood-
the.fun so neccessary to a person of her pleasure -loving
disposition, or of doing without the finery that she *raved.
Then Ted started staying out late at nights. When
he cam* in, often long after midnight, Teckla could smell
whiskey on his breath. ghile she did not object to him taking
a drink or two with the boys, she did object to him being
brought home intoxicated in the early morning hours. Soon
they began to have bitter quarrels again.
At last one night Ted was arrestedocharged with
being "drunk and disorderly." Tackle went up to the station
house and paid his fine, but told him the next morning:
"If this ever happens again„Ted Adams,Ilm through.
I've stood a lot from you, but I'm not going to let my children
have a juilbord for a father."
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After that he bahaved himself for several 'oaths.
Then one night Mrs. Adams telephoned that Tod was at the station
house, and wanted Teekla to oome to pay his bond. When Tockla
refused, Mrs. Adams was furious:
"Ari, you going to let that poor boy stay all night
in a cell?" the demanded.
He an stay there forever," said Tockla„ and hung
up the receiver.
Next day the peaked her things, took her babies,
and went home to her parents. She has been with them ever sines.
Tecicla smilingly says that the children are "Pop's
eye -balls," and that if it had not been for them, she doubts
if he would have taken her in again, for he was very angry
when she married against his wishes.
But While Captain Nielson was glad to have his
daughter and her children dome home to live, he believed
that all members of the family should boar their share of
expenses, so Teckla soon wont to work again, leaving the
children in her mother's dare. A little colored girl was
hired for a dollar a week to wash out their cloth**, and
take them to play in the peek. s the Rmergonoy Relief
Program was lust being set up at this time, Tickle was
assigned to its Gloriosa staff at fifteen dollars a week.
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But the had not realised how the long strain of
trying to keep the family peaceful, and making ends mist on
the smell amount of money she had been able to beg from Ted
after he began drinking and neglecting his business, had
told on her health. Soon she was taken very ill. "Rheumatic
fever," was the doctor's diagnosis. It was over two months
before abs was well enough to return to work.
Teckla never does things by halves. The same winter
in which she left Ted, she went to Georgia, and there filed
petition for divorce, an it is impossible to secure one in
South Carolina. Ted has long since re -married, and has never
contribute& a penny towards the support of either his chil-
dren, or his former wife.
But through all her troubles, Tecklafs sense of
humor has never deserted her. dhen the children salkod where
their daddy was she told them gravely:
The angels took your daddy to Heaven."
One day the boy came home, very much excited:
"Mommy," he cried," you said the angels had taken
Daddy to Heaven, but we saw him walking in the park with a
crippled lady."
"They brought him back," said Teckla.
Today Teckla holds a stenographic position on the
administrative staff of the doments Division of the WPA earn-
ing eighty dollars a month.
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Her work brings her in oontact with many persons seeking
relief, and her friendly manner and sympathetic attitude
toward their problems have made her favorite with both
clients and department heads.
The family is very proud of Teckla and likes to
talk about the important work she does, and of how popular
she is. Often when she comes home at six, tired mit from
a long day, the finds one or two tearful ladies in the
parlor, waiting to toll her their troubles, or to ask her
advice about the proper procedure for securing employment.
Tackle's attitude towards work and life in
general is best shown by a favorite expression of hens
"I don't let it get me downe And when anyone worries
about work piling up, she remarks casually,"You just can't
take itself
At lunch time, or when work becomes sleek for
a moment or two, her softer of the office is the gathering
plaee for the other employees, who know that she usually
has a good joke to tell before the time arrives for work
to be resumed.
People Who knew her during the days she lived
with Ted say she seems much happier now, than at that time.
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But in spite of her caro*free disposition,Teckla
"1 do wish times would get better, so I could
got a good job in private industry. WPA is so uncertain,
I want something with a future.
"Down on Palmetto Now some stenographers are only
getting seven dollars a week. I can't live on that, I want
a job bringing in at least a hundred bucks a month.
"You see, I have to look ahead. I don't expect
I'll *very marry again, because not many men want to be
saddled with a ready-made family. I don't know how Pop's
going to leave his money, but I'm sure that if I peg out,
he'll look out for the kids, and that means a lot to me,
because I can't get insurance on account of my bad heart.
"Pop says he's going to send them both to college.
I don't think Buddy will want to go because all he talks
about is the sea. Leila wants to be a nurse. But she likes
her books right now better than I over did, so she may want
to go for a year or two.
"Believe me, though,I wouldn't have gone to college
if you had paid me a million dollars. Not Mel
But even thoug she is not s student,Tookla likes
to read, and subscribes to a club of popular magasinosoihieh
supply her with the "Pictorial Review,""Ladlos Home Journal,"
and "Good Housekeeping."
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"I can hardly wait to get the next installment
of some of the stories," she says. "Mama reads than in the
day. I read them at night. They sure are swell' She will
tell than to you in detail if you'll listen.
Teeklals mother is a gentle mannered, white haired,
blue...eyed woman of fifty, from whom it is plain the little
grand -daughter inherits her beauty 4.. but not her mild manners,
for Leila is as wild as her grandmother is gentle.
All the family love children, and the old Captain
especially is planning big things for "those two," as he
calls them. Realising his own limited education he intends
to send them to eolloge. Be and Mrs. Nielson are looking
at pianos now so that Leila can begin music lessons.
The Child loves music and rhythm, and sings and
tap dances constantly. Goldonhaired„ blue.illyed,brimming
over with laughter, everyone is attracted by her at first
sight.
Leila is a robust child, and shows the result of
the well-rounded diet of froth fruits, vegetablesoggs and
milk which her grandfather supplies. Buddy, on the same
diet, is far inferior to his sister physically. The delleate
little boy catches every disease in the neighborhood, and
in the past two years has hainchicken pox,measlos,whooping
cough, and a severe attack of mastoids. At Christmas he
put his firecrackers on the stove to get "nice and hot,"
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and has had two fingers tied up ever since. Only last week
he chopped the end off of one of the unwounded fingers with
a hatchet, and had to be taken to the hospital for treatment.
But nothing like that ever happens to lucky little
14011a.
In spite of his frailness which Teekla says he
will outgrow) in face and figure Buddy in the Captain in
miniature as they go hand and hand to the wharf on Saturday
mornings. He, too, is planning at this early age to "follow
the sea."
Sometimes Granddad taken him off for an entire day
on the freight boat. Night brings them home tiredarimy and
happy, ready to fall into bed together after a hearty supper.
Teckla gets up in the mornings and cooks the family
breakfast, for Mrs. Nielson has not been well lately,and so
her daughter iLsists on be staying in bed until the children
are out Of the way and the house quiets down. fter eating a
big bowl of hot eereal and milk, an egg and plenty of bread
and butter, Leila and Buddy trot off of school, carrying their
brightly -colored tin lunchboxes„ in which Tackle has packed
an apple and a handful of cookies. Eadh has a nickle for
chocolate milk. Leila always has her money safe at lunch time,
but little Buddy usually manages to lose his, or gives it
away to some poor child.
4iile the children are at school, Toekla and her
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sister Freida at their respective Wiese, Nrs•Nielson tidies
the house, washes up the breakfast dishes, and starts the
wholesome dinner, which is served on the arrival of the children
around one thirty. This meal usually consists of a moat of
some sort fish is a favorite dish in the familywasibee,miveral
kinds of vegetables, bread and butter, milk for the children;
coffee for the adults. No sweet is ever served at this meal
on weekdays.
On Sunday Teekla cooks the dinner, and so gives her
mother a rest. Chicken and dumplings usually forms the main
dish, and pouting often served for dessert. In rummer they
sometimes have ice-cream and (mike.
Once week a colored girl comes in to help clean
house, and do the scrubbing, for which they pay her fifty cents,
and give her a heaping plate of the family dinner.
Besides cooking breakfast Tickle does the marketing.
She gets the best values for her money, for she is a thrifty
shopper. Not for her is the lazy telephone order, and each
fish or out of beef in carefully prodded for proof of its
freshness or tenderness before the purchase is finally made.
Lettuce must be crisp, bananas firm and green, before they
can find their way into her market basket.
"Freida doesn't like housework," said Teekla," so
she isnot much of a help around the house. She's a clerk at
the telephone company has been with them for a long time.
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Freida started off as a telephone operator, and worked up to
a clerical position. She gets seventy-five dollars a month,
has a day off each week and two weeks' vacation in summer.
"But /Ill tell the world she's a lot different from
what I am. She worries all the time about her work. I tell
her not to let it get her goat, but sometimes she gets right
much whipped down.
"It's a good think, though, that she's on the clerical
tore, now instead of at the switchboard, because she has some
kind of chronic ear trouble and is getting pretty deaf. The
doctor says he's done all he can, and it can't be cured.
then she has a cold, for instance, all the discharge istthrough
her ear, instead of through her nostrils, and it makes her
awfully sick.
"Freida is literary, like Mama's sister,Graetchen.
You ought to see the high -brow books that gal reads. it she
doesn't oar* a thing about stopping out with men. It's funny,
too, because most people think she's pretty. know she's
got me beat a mile. And does that girl like to dress*
But Crystal is Pop's favorite daughter. Married to
a husky young insurance collector of Italian parentage.Crystal
is "expecting" in the spring, and the Captain is as excited
as the father -to -be.
"If it's a boy it's going to be named for Pop," said
Teckla," and then Leila and Buddy'd noses will sure be out of joint.
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"Ivory time that girl comes to the house," she
continued, "Dad gives her domething. Last week he gave her
five dollars, just for going on an errand to the bank. I go
all over the city for him, and he never gives me anything.
It sure makes me mad."
But she laughed when she said it, for she knows
she has no need to be jealous of her sister, for the Captain
is always doing something for his grandchildren. Last summer
he took them both for a two weekst stay in the mountains of
North Carolina, so that Teckla could take her much needed vacation
alone, and whenever they need anything 1h/di the cannot afford
to give them, Pop Cheerfully supplies the necessary funds.
This to the Captain's insistence that all members of
the family contribute their share toward the household expenses,
it is possible for the Nielsons to live well, dress well, have
good food, and still,save a little for emergencies. hhile Teckla
uses most of her eighty dollars for board,clothing,doctors bills
(usually for Buddy), and other incidental expenses, fhe captain
insists that she put five dollars in the bank each pay day.
She also has a Chrtitmas Saving Club for the children, and banks
the check fog them each year.
Speaking of family finances, Tackla says" the Old Man
is very tightmouth." She knows little about his business affairs.
She thinks, though, that he has a uod many irons in the fire,
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for although he never says anything definite, now and then
he will drills a hints
"Tickle, I've got half a dosen tickets on the ferry-
boat. Dress the kids, and you and your mother take them for
a trip around the harbor."
"I think he owns a share in that btsiness," she
says.
Last year for the first time in Teaklats memory
the Captain was Ill, the victim of a slight strike of paralysis.
"Daughter," he said one day, when he was convalescing,
"go down to Blank Bank, open my private security box, and
clip the coupons on the bonds for me."
That was the first time„Teckla says, she even
knew he had any bonds to clip.
The Nielsons have been living in their present
home for several years now. Teckla says the Captain paid
for it in wish, and although he has had several offers which
would yield a handsome profit on the investment,he says his
doesn't ears to sell." As the house is located in one of
the best residential sections of the city, where real estate
values are still rising, the shiewd old man realises that his
ean welltafford to hold the property.
Tackles home is a comfortable two story brick
dwelling of six rooms and bath, set well back from the street
with a wide flower -bordered lawn in front, which serves as a
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playground for Leila and Buddy* A giant umbrella tree shades
the yard, from which the two youngsters escape at every
opportunity Leila to visit her small schoolmates; Buddy to
run off to the wharf in search of Granddad*
On the hartmd floor of the seldom -used parlor
is a dark brown velvet artequare, matching in color the over-
stuffed sofa and theirs. A small modern secretary in walnut
finish holds some of Freidals books* On a drop-leaf table is
a large gold -framed, tinted photograph of Leila in a fluffy
white dfess, with a big blue bow on her hair; while on the
mantle between two antique china vases is one of Buddy in a
sailor suit. The only wall decoration is a floral watercoolor
in an old gold -leaf frame, "Mich hangs on the frost wall above
a large victrola, between the tall, lace -curtained windows*
But the dining room is the heart of the household*
About ita round oak table, almost sovered by a large tome
centerpiece, the family gathers in the evenings to unwonted,
or play cards. Here the Childred do their home work, which
Teckla says consists mostly of coloring picture books accord-
ing to some "new fan led" system of teaching which the does
not understand.
"It eirtainly teaches Ahem to road fast„thoUgh,"
she concedes.
There is an open fireplace in the dining room
around which they sit when company comes, to partake of the
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coffee and cake, or the glass of wins and fruitcake, always
so hospitably proffered by the ladies of the household. And
here, too, is the radic,, und an invitingly shanty couch for
rest and naps.
The old Gaptain„ however, regards it as a personal
insult if guests are taken into the orderly, well furnished
parlor, instead of being brought into the cluttered, shay
dining room.
"That's good enough for us is good enough for our
company," he growls.
But the pride of the family is a strictly modern,
up-to-date bathroom, which h, s recently replaoed the antiquated
relic of early plumbing days. The pale blue walls are washable;
floor and wainscoting are of 'alining tile; the porcelain tub
is built-in; and a blue curtained shower has been installed
for the shower addicts pi' the family.
Just outside the bathroom door is a newly built.Pin
linen closet, which Mrs. Vielson opens with pride to dhow
the piles oe snowy linens, with their wide borders of band -knit
or crocheted lace, and the hand embroidered towels and bed..
spreads on which she loves to work while resting from more
strenuous duties.
Tackle is beginning to take an interest in hand
work, and has just completed a °rocketed bedsproad,for whiCh
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her mother is now netting the fringe.
A roomy garage at the end of the driveway houses
the three family cars. Pop has a new light oar of popular
make; Tickle and Mrs, Nielson have a good second hand machine
to take the children driving when Pop's car is in use, and
for Tackle to go to and from work in. The automobile is.
really Mrs. Nielsonle but Teckla does the driving. illmsidass
is a roadster of a more expensive type, equipped with heater,
radio, and all the up-to-date gadgets.
Often on Sunday mornings Teckla rises at daybreak
to fry chicken (which despising the slower process of picking,
she impatiently skins), and make the macaroni pie and tomato
pileau without which no Old Town picnic dinner is complete.
Then the whole family pile into cars, and off they go to
spend the day at one of the nearby beaches in the summeror
more distant points in the winter.
The Nielsons are a clannish family, and seldom is
an out -eider invited to slag?. their Sunday jaunts. Since they
are Lutherans the children usually go to Lutheran eabbath
schol when in the city, and the adults attend the morning
service, but take no active part in church work.
Far from straight-laoed in her attitude towards
amusements and Sunday observance, Teckla says she steps out
every chance she gets, regardless of the day.
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"The better the day, the better the deed," she
observes airily, rapidly adding a row of figures, and set..
ting down the total in neat red figures at the bottom of
the column.
Like many tall, slender girls she is a good dameer,
and is never at a loss for partners, for men respond to her
ready it and the appeal in her blue eyes.
She enjoys a bridge gamey too, and belongs to a
club composed of eight young women, who meet at eaoh other's
homes one evening each week. Laviah refreshments are served,
and Maki& says they talk and eat more than they play. She
herself is a good player, and has many prises which she shows
with pride, and says:
"I put them in my cedar chest and give thou away
again. They come in useful on birthdays and Christmas.
dhen it is Tecklats turn to entertain the club,
Crystal comes to the house and prepares a special Italian
dish from a recipe which has been in her husband's family
for several generations. While the main ingredients are
quite ordimmry spaghetti, tomatoes, Cheese and tiny meat
balls.. the secret lies in the preparation of the sauce„whioh
takes all day to cooks and when finished is a culinary master
pies,.
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Teckla„ says "Pop is a real sport." Re plays cards,
*hoots *rap, loves a good joke -any kind. Re in regarded by his
friends as a "jolly,good fellow," and is very mndh in demand
at their gatherings. Bunting is his favorite sport, however,
and each season see the Nielson table loaded with marahiehen„
duck, or venison.
Pop sakes an interest in politicsaboth Ideal and
national. Re is thought by Tootle to have "quite a bit of pull"
in certain quarters, and is always well informed on political
matters. He and his family always vote the Democratic ticket.
Tackle herself is an enthusiastic Roosevelt fan,
and an ardent advocate of the Now Deal. She attends the
President's Birthday Ball sash year, giving her donation un-.,
grudgingly to help the crippled children of the nation.
Perhaps the seeret of her sympathy may be found in her statements
"Buddy was club-footed when he was a baby, bet he's
been wearing shoes specially built for him several years now,
and the bone specialist says he's sure he'll be all right
before long. X hope so, anyhow„for those specially made shoes
cost plenty; and bone dostors charge plenty,tool"
All the Nielson* love to dresseand dress well, with
the exception of the CaptaineWho seldom lays aside the hunting
costume in which, however, he looks his beat. Teckla's habit
is to buy a suit one year, a coat the next.
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Rose D. workman,
Charlesten,B.C.
"bviillow, Sat."
Page 22.
She is always the first of the office erowd to appear in a
new spring hat, and in the fall is the first of the girls
to put away her summer clothes and flaunt a new fall outfit.
The day's work done w the sweeps all uncompleted
business into her desk drawer with one swift movement of her
hand, and rising, places a nifty "pill box" with flying veil
at a precarious angle on her newly set blond pormanentopulls
on her fashionable silk and loather gloves, covers up the
typewriter, and brasses out.