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Show Bj How One Widow' Made WF Good In Business ttttRd' $!' In the February Issue of Farm Wi and Fireside this passage occurs In w 0I article; X. "Vou know what prospect there Is tor a 'widow woman In a country s5 town, John, my friend wont on. kjopj Take In washing or get married again i'i LMfW that's the usual thing. I did tak In washing for a while, for I was strong and eager to pay my way. But when old Jacob Grimes, who had Just burled his second wito because of overwork at the farm, approached approach-ed me after church one night an1 with a leer offered to see me homo. I recounted his family history in a fow well chosen words. "The folks all said that I was insane when I rented old Anthony Bales' place a mile from town, reminisced remi-nisced Jennie, for the farm was a wilderness of weeds. But I'd always been a farm girl and I know that hens paid well. The little home waa sold, and with a few hundred dol- lars in cash, representing all wo had In the world, Mildred and Ted and I moved out. I purchased a cow, a horse and wagon, a few Implements, Im-plements, and a hundred hens. "When the" ten acres of ground ? had been placed In cultivation that spring we had llttlo ready cash. Tho outlook was no cheerful, and when drought cut yield of crop and garden, gard-en, friends began insisting that "I told you so." But the hens stayed on the job. "At tho second year's beglnnlpg I was $50 ahoad and tho rent was paid. That wasn't bo bad, after all." |