Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittman
A. I got caught. (lawter) I got camt. Now that bm, I was in
touch with for a long time. But now I see nams in the paper and I canft
tell how mre there were of that nam.
Q. That was one of your first cases, then?
A. Yes. Then when I first graduated, I lived in the horn of one of rqy
obstetrical patients that I had in the hospital because I graduated soon
after she left the hospital. And in the matter of months, our friendship
was kind of warm then. And Helen, Helen c m to see wbn I was working
ln Chicago, cam to ~QY office there, but that was years laer.
Q. Was Helen the baby's nm? 1
A. Helen was the baby.
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Q. What was her last nam?
A. Oh, which baby are we talking about now?
Q. The baby that . . .
A. Where I lived? Koehn. They were German. It was a Getman name, but
not the Jewish. C-&H-N. The father worked at the First fJationa1 Bank.
Q. When you lived with them, did you live with them as or$ of the family?
A. Yes, but he'd often take me on the-he had a horse an@ b-, and he'd
take me to case often when I got a new call. Otherwise* I thhk I'd
have had to take a t d ; no, I donft think there was a ta$. Howld I get
there? Well, sombodyfd pick E up, I guess. There were borne cars those
days, you see. But Charlie Kmhn had 2 horse and buggy. Ii remmber they
even had--in those tb~s
there was a &mg of us. There we* four girls and
four En and we each had owl special beau; and wef d go aropnd together; just
hang together. So it was rq~ twn to do some entertainhg
put on a dinner for us, the whole outfit, you how.
Q. I was going to ask you what kinds of things you did fc
course, you didn't have too much tim.
A. Well, we dfdnft have much time, no. You had to get rr
after a case. You didn't stay on a case after the family
cause it was too expensive for them mostly.
Q. They were paying you how much a day then?
A. Well, we got $25 a week and your mals,
: recreation. Of
;ted up usually
:auld manage be-
Q. And that's a seven day weekp
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A. Yes. ?hen, of course, you baid for your own lamdry; you sent your
laundry out and paid for it. You paid the wife and she ' d put it in her