Mrs. Leonard Jerome Overcomes Her Handicap   Mary Jerome   My
mother was born January 13, 1932. She lived in McArther,a little
ways from Pembina. She lived on a farm and raised chickens,
pigs,and a horse. She went to St. Vincent grade school until she
was out ofthe fourth grade. She had to walk about 4 or 5 miles a
day to go to school.  When my mother got home from school, she
had to feed theanimals and help her dad out in the field.  She
would have to start out for school about 6:30 in themorning and
would get to school about 8:30.  She went to school in Pembina
until she graduated fromeighth grade.  My mother got a job at
"Short's Cafe." She wasa waitress there when she was fourteen
years old. She worked there forabout 4 months. She got fifty-
three cents an hour.  Then my mother went to Minneapolis with a
friend of hersand worked at a store. She was a waitress there
too, and got thirty-fivecents an hour as a dishwasher. She and
her friend rented a room down inMinneapolis.  When she came home
in the winter f