Bridget’s Mother and her Pa would allow her to take the test. The most important test in Bridget’s young life. Bridget had been accepted as a scholarship applicant. She would be permitted to test for admittance into a program that trained girls to become typewriters or typewriting girls, as they were called. Men were amazed at how more efficiently their offices could be run using a typewriter. For women, it was a job ticket out of the sweat shop factory, or the hard work of a farm. Sixteen-year-old Bridget was ecstatic at the thought of being able to join that elite group of women. She remembered the judge’s secretary and wondered if it was really possible that someday she could have an important job like that. She also wondered if someday she would also be married. The test was two weeks away. A typing test. The three with the top scores would not only receive full tuition, but room and board at the Greenview Manor for Young Women. Usually the fee for just the room and board was $1.89 a month, so to receive such a scholarship would be an enormous help.
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