August 15, 1913
commercially made, lined paper notebook
8 5/16 x 6 13/16 inches
Charles E. Burchfield Archives, Gift of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
down and ate dinner, after which I sat down and read an article in the Delineator entitled “Getting used to women”which was a treatise on “The New Woman”. It was very interesting and doubtless contains a lot of truths concerning the change that is coming in the life of the woman of today. By the time I had finished this it was time to go to work so I went upstairs,washed and was soon started back again, taking with - a magazine to give Mr. W. G. Fawcett. At Vine and McKinley this time I met Abert Guy (a fellow who gives me the dry gripes) with whom I walked up Main St. indulging in a heated conversation about the weather. I fled from him at Fawcett’s Bargain Store. Mr. Fawcett had asked Joe to add a few items to a cartoon in the magazine and Joe being sick I took over the job. When it came to the point of setting, I at first refused anything for it didn’t really take five minutes to complete the work, but when he urged me to accept fifty cents I thought