Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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A. Well, now. Now, they give me rides to the doctor the YWCA and
all that. And that's one thing they do, but there's
dentist. They picked rn up at the dentist recently.
had
been ri@t at noonth-e and they had an early lunch
and I had a little shopping to do. And they said,
to go out to Penneyls?" I said, "Oh, I've never
I'd never go there anyrmre; once is enough.
to hunt around. I don't know whether you've
Q. Yes. I
A. You haue.to hunt. Now if you once get used to going,,I think then, you
know where to go. But when you get there, then you don'tfind what you want.
Now for instance, stationery. I had a lot of home statioqery things. I do
a lot of fiddling with papers, you know . . . (tape twnedl off)
Q. Did you know the Kmider girls as a child?
A. They were just being born then. We were nei@bors. I man their home,
their family home was on Firth Street. Jackson Street pr
f
ctically r@~ into
their how. It was a lovely big hoe. You see, their fa her was a bell-todo
surgeon and he studied in &my, too. And one of the r sons stwed
in Genrany. And it was throw the church that I knew thd pandmther. [It
was] mother who came in and saw the underwear when there was a sale [at Hemdonts]
and she'd buy it up and give it away. So I knew hqr then. And this
Mary Colem that I spoke of a while ago, she saw to it that I had a winter
coat and so forth. I was at another hone, Schermerhornls, Ann Wgpret and
Won worked for a long tim in #he First National
Marion [Schemrh.om].
Bank. kaaret married a man in Aumm who died later, a
Now the two girls are together at the Franklh Life Ap&
there a year and that was hard. Oh, I had to scrmb and I
furnace. It was (ahuckles) on account of the father being
who had to be out of town all week; South Bend, Indiana,
quarters were.
And that was hard, but the girls, they st
And mion, she wouldn ' t let my biehday go by or CWistrr
that go by without gettlng me something.
Q. Heavens, Mring the furnace for you would be . . .
A. And carry out the ashes.
Q. Oh, my word. That 's heavy work!
A. Scrub a big kitchen floor.
Q. Your1 re only what? About flve foot . . .
long time later.
lents . So I was
had to fire the
an insurance naan
ras where his head-
. love . (lau@;hs)
ts or anything like
A. Itm not Mve feet. I'm four
+
feet nine and three quar
Q. Gracious. Didn't they ha a hired man or someone el re who could help?
A, No, no, that was it. a residence. I had a li tle room. Then
I-QI last- senior year, I the home of a woman, al o in our [church].