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home more worn out than refreshed, the pleasure of the
evening based on exchange of ideas about the last sermon,
how to exterminate insects from the garden, and a new pattern
for a quilt. Everything seemingly went wrong during her
absence, filling the lamp was forgotten and similar over-
sights, occasion supper to be very late. The head of the
home has had an exceedingly hard day and is hungry.

The small children who were not permitted to accompany
her are quarrelsome and difficult and a domestic storm
follows. Thereby she pays for her outing and mentally re-
solves never to go anywhere again.

She does not take her position in life cheerfully.
She resents the fact that she is on the outside although
ladylike in manner ,neat and deserving. There are only a
very few families of this farm tenant type and these are
so scattered and must work so hard they have no time for
social intercourse.

Resentful of the conditions surrounding her shrinks
from meeting her neighbors and never goes any where except
to see the three old ladies, whose habit is to lend a
helping hand and extend a welcome to those whose pathway
in life is rougher than theirs.

Oldest of the six little girls is MAXINE who attends
high school and is an unusually attractive sixteen-year old
girl. She is a near-modern girl and gives a good time pre-
cedence over all else, boasting of eight "sweeties."

She accepts none of the heavy work responsibilities as
her part, although larger and heavier than her mother and

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