Rodjezke's otherwise industrious day.
These items are given in order that Mrs. Rodjezke may be visualized for a
moment as she rode home on a recent evening. It was very hot and the
papers carried news on the front page: "Hot Spell to Continue."
Mrs. Rodjezke got off the car at 29th and Halsted streets and walked to
her flat. Here the two Rodjezke children, who were 8 and 10 years old
respectively, were demanding their supper. After the food was eaten Mrs.
Rodjezke said, in Bohemian:
"We are going down to the beach to-night and go in swimming."
Shouts from the younger Rodjezkes.
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When the family appeared on the 51st Street beach it was alive with people
from everywhere. They stood around cooling off in their bathing suits and
trying to forget how hot it was by covering themselves in the chill sand.
Mrs. Rodjezke's bathing suit was of the kind that attracts attention these
days. It was voluminous and hand made and it looked as if it might have
functioned as a "wrapper" in its palmier days. For a long time nobody
noticed Mrs. Rodjezke. She sat on the sand. Her head felt dizzy. Her eyes
burned. And there was a burn in the small of her back. Her knees also
burned and the tips of her fingers throbbed.
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