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...days. The kids go to school regularly, and they take part in the Center for Family Life's after- school programs. Rose too gets help from the center, mostly advice in practical things, like her welfare payments. She goes to school now too, to learn how to be a beautician. "I even signed up the girls for ballet lessons." When she smiles she looks baby-tough, like an East Side Kid from the movies of the 1930s. A plate hung above the kitchen door reads GOD BLESS THIS LOUSY APARTMENT...
...come from New York?" asks Sinead Doherty, 15, who wants to be a beautician and sports a fancy hairdo for a start...
...complete and thorough tour, says Mrs. Khalil, who, locking her hand on the visitor's arm, pushes him through corridors from section to section. He shakes hands with everybody?every secretary, every group leader. He admires the embroidery done in the sewing room, and stands in awe of the beautician training center, and congratulates everyone on the jams and pickles?all bottled there. Mrs. Khalil points out "this and this and this"?until the two of them make a full circle and return to where the little children are packed in a classroom, shouting out a rhyme that sounds...
Welty can wring humor from the Southern idioms without mocking them. In Petrified Man, a beautician named Leota reminisces about her recent courtship: "Honey, 'me an' Fred, we met in a rumble seat eight months ago and we was practically on what you might call the way to the altar inside of half an hour." In The Wide Net, a none-too-bright husband thinks his pregnant wife has drowned herself; an awkwardly large party is assembled to drag the Pearl River. Of course, no body is found, but Doc, who owns the net, pronounces himself pleased with...
...that give a good old country tune perspective. She grew up in the hills of east-central Pennsylvania, on the fringes of the mining belt. Her father was a guide on a hunting preserve ("He was a good shot. I grew up eating venison"). Her mother, trained as a beautician, worked counters at local truck stops. During long evenings at home, her father played guitar, mandolin and banjo, and her mother sang while she and her younger sister Randy sat back at the kitchen table and listened. "It was strictly country," she says. "I loved the songs more than...