Onion Days Analysis

Mrs. Gabrielle Giovannitti comes along Peoria Streetevery morning at nine o'clock

With kindling wood piled on top of her head, her eyeslooking straight ahead to find the way for her old feet.

Her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Pietro Giovannitti, whosehusband was killed in a tunnel explosion throughthe negligence of a fellow-servant,

Works ten hours a day, sometimes twelve, picking onionsfor Jasper on the Bowmanville road.

She takes a street car at half-past five in the morning,Mrs. Pietro Giovannitti does,

And gets back from Jasper's with cash for her day'swork, between nine and ten o'clock at night.

Last week she got eight cents a box, Mrs. PietroGiovannitti, picking onions for Jasper,

But this week Jasper dropped the pay to six cents abox because so many women and girls were answeringthe ads in the Daily News.

Jasper belongs to an Episcopal church in Ravenswoodand on certain Sundays

He enjoys chanting the Nicene creed with his daughterson each side of him joining their voices with his.

If the preacher repeats old sermons of a Sunday, Jasper'smind wanders to his 700-acre farm and how hecan make it produce more efficiently

And sometimes he speculates on whether he could wordan ad in the Daily News so it would bring morewomen and girls out to his farm and reduce operatingcosts.

Mrs. Pietro Giovannitti is far from desperate about life;her joy is in a child she knows will arrive to her inthree months.

And now while these are the pictures for today there areother pictures of the Giovannitti people I could giveyou for to-morrow,

And how some of them go to the county agent on wintermornings with their baskets for beans and cornmealand molasses.

I listen to fellows saying here's good stuff for a novel orit might be worked up into a good play.

I say there's no dramatist living can put old Mrs.Gabrielle Giovannitti into a play with that kindlingwood piled on top of her head coming along PeoriaStreet nine o'clock in the morning.

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