| Show WHY JENNIE HATES HATES' FLOWERS They They Mean Mean to Her the Very Very- Opposite of Green Fields Pleasant Pleasant Odor Birds and Bee Bees t I IWI hate bate flowers said Jenn Jennie a n littie lit lit- litI tie Italian girl of 9 a as S' S she bent over r the pile of ot white daisy petals on the kitchen table She was busily pick first dipping each Ing up the peps stern stem In La paste smeared on a Il piece of ot board slipping u a petal up each stem steIn and Inserting It In one of ot the green 1 tubes on the wreath Flowers to her did not sp spell ll greenfields green fields pleasant odors or something 1 soft and agreeable to feel and handle To this little girl living JIving In the crowded Italian district on the lower west side of or New York city flowers meant piles of or hideously colored petals of ot cambric stiff with starch and dye and smelling stron strongly ly of or alcohol glue lue and paste These she had to fetch from th the factory factory fac fac- Dc tory every evory day after aCter school Before Delore school the next morning the manufacture them Int Into had to j f l flowers Everyone worked nIl all t except the tha theS the'S father who declared that It was as nota aota not a ua mans man's work and nu nn older ohler son sons who was driver on a wagon truck Even the baby 18 months mouths old could help b by picking apart the Ule p petals Maggie 4 years old was too young to go to to school but she sho could work the greater 4 part purt of or the day Nardo aged G C was an pa expert hand huml although h his mother complained that he hue wanted to pl ply pisy ne Besides des Jennie there was little Angelina Ange Ange- han lina a hunchback of 11 ii years who was really the forewoman of the thee group lOUp seeing to It that each days day's quota was faithfully done The account hook showed that sir six dozens of wreaths with 39 flowers were finished every very nl night ht The buttercup buttercup buttercup but but- wreaths brought 8 cents a dozen and the daisies 10 cents For this work the family faintly received or a 11 week according to whether whether- they worked on buttercups or daisies Louise C C. in Ia World Out Out- it look I |
