“I began to live out when I was thirteen years old, and I am now twenty-seven. I have saved $1600 in that time. At first I had $.50 a week; now I have $3.00. One summer I earned $3.00 a day in the hop-picking season.”
[245] “We are not as closely confined as girls who work in stores, and are usually more healthy.”
“I chose it because I thought it was healthy work.”
“There is no healthier work for women.”
“It is healthier than most other kinds of work I could do.”
“You can have better-cooked food and a better room than most shop-girls.”
[246] “I came to a strange city and chose housework, because it afforded me a home.”
“I am well treated by the family I am with, feel at home and under their protection.”
“Housework fell to my lot and I have followed it up because it has secured me a home.”
“Housework gives me a better home than I could make for myself in any other way.”