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they do not like candy at all, so I have to eat it myself. My hus-
band he go by my father's store and buy it every day from him. You
know that is the way of showing that he wish him much success in
the store. He knows that the children no eat mooch of it and I
have to. My father should be in some other business, for my sake. . .
it make me too fat.

"I use to sit and eat candy and crochet and eat candy and
crochet. Dat iss now I make so mooch of the handwork you see all
over everything. I like pretty thing and my husband he like it too,
so I make the portiers and the scarfs and chairbacks and the mantle
covers and the tablecloths and a bedspread on the bed in my room
there.

"So, back to my story--my father always been able to send us to
a good school. He thinks a youngun can learn more in a private
school than in the public school but I don't think so. He pay $3.50
a month for me all the time I go to school from the first, to the
time I graduate from the high grades. And the same for my sister,
Elizabeth. But my baby sister, she didn't like it and wanted to go
to the public schools and she did. She graduated from the Lee High
School two years ago and she is brighter than us that had more ex-
pensive training.

"All Greek families send their children to the school where
they learn to speak more Greek than they would at home. We do not
speak so much Greek in our homes when everybody in the house does
learn the English. It is best that we try to speak the English

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