Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

jumble of events. I was just getting settled at school and my work interfered with my school hours. I was always on the go. In that time I assumed a careless easygoing manner that finally became a permanent attitude. I had to in order to get along with people. And I do not regret it. I had ever a ready work for anyone and met everyone the same. At school I became acquainted faster than anyone else perhaps. How little like me in Salem! - always backward, I surprised myself more than once during the first few months. At the end of the first week I concluded that I could never make my restaurant job agree with school so I quit and got a night job in a drug-store tending a soda-fountain. Hours were from 5 to 12.  I worked there a month - a month of weariness and homesickness. Working till midnight was too much. I was sleepy all day in school. I never got enough sleep. During that time Mother and Joe made a visit and left me more