1 Spring - 1925 2 Her busy day 3 Her busy day, too! 4 Nothing but ham and eggs! 5 "What's for supper?" 6 "Ham and eggs!" 7 "We're sick of ham and eggs!" 8 The last straw! 9 "Jane, what is the matter?" 10 "All this rumpus about a few petunia plants?" 11 "John Jones, if you don't sell this worthless old farm and get a job in town, I'm going to pack up and leave!" 12 "Sister Hattie's hus- band makes two thou- sand dollars a year in the city -" 13 "- and our net income is only a measly four hundred dollars!" 14 "You know we've got it down in black and white in that account book I've slaved over all winter!" 15 "Well - why don't you say something?" 16 "Poor Jane!" 17 "Jane, you've been working too hard." 18 "What you need is a rest." 19 "What about going to the city to spend two or three weeks with Hattie?" 20 "Why John, we can't afford it!" 21 "Never mind about that - We'll sell a heifer - Grandma will come over now and then -" 22 "- and maybe you can find that two thou- sand dollar job for me!" 23 Her days of rest - 24 Where Hattie lives. 25 It's a "walk-up". 26 "Hattie's home!" 27 "Sixty dollars! A month?" 28 "Yes, and cheap at that. Real estate has slumped in this neighborhood -" 29 "- that's why they allow children in this building." 30 "Let me help you get supper." 31 "Why Jane, there's barely room for one good-sized woman in my kitchen, let alone two!" 32 "Dinner" 33 Hattie is proud of her pressure cooker. 34 Here comes Hattie's husband - who gets all of two thousand a year for sitting at a desk. 35 "Hurray! Good old ham and eggs!" 36 "Yes, when we want to celebrate we have an old-fashioned country dinner of fried ham." 37 "It reminds us so of home!" 38 "I'm afraid you won't like these grocery eggs, Jane." 39 "It takes time to get used to the... ah... odd taste." 40 "That's another thing we've had to get used to." 41 "Real cream, at forty cents a pint, is a forbid- den luxury on forty dollars a week." 42 Two thousand a year! 43 Bed time. 44 "Now run and feed your pet before you go to bed." 45 "Willie just loves pets!" 46 "A big dog? Heavens, we'd be put into the street!" 47 "The fish doesn't sing or bark." 48 "You and I will sleep on the folding bed." 49 "Why Jane, he often sleeps on the fire escape when we have company. At least it's cool out there!" 50 Seeing the City 51 Brick and concrete. 52 The market. 53 The movies. 54 The stores. 55 At last - a quiet place! 56 "Ten thousand dollars!" 57 Jane has a thought - 58 - but keeps it to herself. 59 One long week closes - 60 "Oh Hattie, I know I'll be crippled for life!" 61 "There, there! It isn't as bad as you think -" 62 "Walking on city pave- ment always affects country folks that way at first -" 63 "You get hardened to it after a while." 64 "Well - if I can put one foot before the other tomorrow -" 65 "- I'm going home!" 66 HOME 67 "No place like ..." after all. 68 Fruit - 69 Vegetables - 70 Meat - 71 Milk - 72 Cream - 73 Butter - 74 "John, in the city I saw a painted sunset worth ten thousand dollars -" 75 "- and look -" 76 "- from our own back yard -" 77 "- for nothing!" UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREHome