NO MONEY
Dora Shooster - Going back to the beginning of our marriage [1915], a cousin of mine came to order a suit on a Saturday. Dobke’s man, he called me Dobke, from the old country. He said, ‘Dobke, why did you give me to eat, and you’re not eating?’ [sic] I didn’t have enough food, but I said I was not hungry. He didn’t believe me. When I went to the butcher, I asked for half a pound of meat. He told me to buy a pound, and he would trust me for the difference. I wouldn’t do it. But I lived. I made myself an egg and a glass of tea. I was healthy as anything. We struggled. There was very little money. Sometimes we didn’t have the rent. I rented my bedroom to a nice person, she was a drunken woman. She liked her drink. She used to pay me $12 a week; it was a lot of money.
Boys in Hebrew School Oil on Canvas, by Harry Shooster, circa 1940.
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