My grandparents in Illinois had several roomers. My mother was a young girl,
and they were all very important grown up friends for her. One was indeed a
teacher, Miss Virgie. It would not have been proper in the '20s for Miss
Virgie to live anywhere else. She left--the room and teaching--when she got
married, but she was always in touch with the family. And then Franz came to
live with them. He was a German master baker, like my grandfather, and he came
to town with a flour salesman who thought my grandfather could help him find
work. He did, and they rented him that had vacated by Miss Virgie. My mother
told me that was a typical way bakers found work. The roomers, in this case,
had the use of a hot plate and a small sink and even room for a small kitchen
table and a sitting room. It could have been Mayberry.
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