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mill and help support the family. "Myrtle is ashamed to go to school, now that she's done got so far behind in her books," Julia told me. But Julia heard of a WPA teacher in a nearby community and she knew Myrtle wouldn't mind one person knowing how ignorant she was. So now Myrtle manages to have a few lessons at home each week from the WPA teacher.

The baby, when they showed her to me, was sleeping peacefully in her little bed, which had not a semblance of a sheet. The chubby little blue-eyed girl opened her eyes and smiled for a moment before snuggling back into the folds of the bedcover. (This last nondescript object, which had evidently had only a speaking acquaintance with soap and water, seemed to be some grown person's outworn and discarded kimona). Julia is especially proud of the baby, because she is the first girl since Myrtle and Myrtle is 17.

The second, third and fourth boys were at school when I called on the Rhodes family and the fifth and sixth, too young for school, were playing in the back yard.

Julia does not seem to have a single worry about the future, as the family has pretty good health and she is satisfied. She had to give up her job in the mill in April, 1938, but she expects to go back as soon as the baby is old enough for her to leave it.

10/11/38
S.B.J.

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