ten o'clock
She sold not only insurance but coal , a thing which rather shocked her south side friends . She took orders for tons of this and tons of that , making a neat commission thereby . She had a desk in the office of a big insurance company on Dearborn , near Monroe , and there you saw her every morning at ten in her neat sailor hat and her neat tailored suit . Four hours of work lay behind that ten o'clock appearance . The children were off to school a little after eight . But there was the ordering to do ; cleaning ; sewing ; preserving , mending . A woman came in for a few hours every day but there was no room for a resident helper .