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Updated: September 2, 2025
They send me bundles of hideous stuff, with needles and shields and imitation silk for lining, and when I turn out something worth while out of the mess they think the dress is queer!" Mrs. To her, Harriet was not an artist pleading for her art; she was a sister and a bread-winner deserting her trust. "I'm sure," she said stiffly, "we paid you back every cent we borrowed.
The poor Capriotes' "bread-winner" had gone the way of Antonio's argosies another whet to the all-devouring appetite, for which nothing that swims is too large or too small.
If we reckon that the average wage of a working man is about 24s., that of a working woman 15s., we realize the strain which the loss of the male bread-winner throws on the survivor.
Till within a few days her children had been at a school and paid for, but now the bread-winner was ill might never recover and had gone to the hospital. These children were at once admitted, and in each case investigation was made to test the veracity of the applicants.
Pierre could divine the absence of the bread-winner, the disappearance of the man who represents will and strength in the home, and on whom one still relies even when weeks have gone by without work. He goes out and scours the city, and often ends by bringing back the indispensable crust which keeps death at bay.
Had Yvonne needed encouragement in her career as a bread-winner her success of the morning had filled her with confidence. She had earned the right to live for this day at least, and looked forward to the morrow with joyous enthusiasm.
Having heard he was at his father's smiddy, instead of going thither, they had come to that place, in order that they might speak with him more apart, and free from molestation, concerning their sons. One of the women was a poor widow, and she had no other child, nor the hope of any other bread-winner for her old age.
The neighbors crowded around to congratulate them; and they explained, for, kindly-hearted souls, they did not wish their old companions in poverty to think that they had willingly fled from them, at the first approach of good fortune, they explained that they must get a new home nearer to the theater, for Christina's sake; and that they proposed that she should have teachers in music and singing and acting; for she was now the bread-winner of the family, and they hoped that some day she would shine in opera with the great artists.
I've just come from my lawyer, auntie, and, 'Please, ma'am, I ain't got nothink 't all. Flowers, lady? Buttonhole, gentleman? Pencils, sir, three for five, to help a poor widow? Do I do it nicely, auntie, or, as a bread-winner accomplishment, were my lessons in elocution entirely wasted?"
"Secondly, he was a great man in his home, and by the way, there is where the true greatness of a man is tested. In the death of our esteemed brother the home is the loser. It loses a loving husband. It loses a considerate father and an efficient bread-winner. "Thirdly, our brother was a great man in the community. I am told that he was a public-spirited man.
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