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[[Top margin]] further note: checked lunches of babies + children left by their mothers when child dripped off; manly plain rice + salt [[/top margin]]

health is no longer good enough to work as a picker ((chosen by whom?)); she suffering from asthma or TB or another lung disease
a widow with one child, adopted; she complained of trouble with this child who doesn't want to go to school
- she says her age about 50 but looks more like 60
illiterate
she says that the money she gets for running the [[penitipan?]] actually comes from the women themselves, i.e. is deducted from their wages 
she showed us her own wage slip which showed a take - home pay of 9765 Rp; this after an 8746 Rp reduction for rice obtained in advance from the company store
she says skin disease (apparently excema) is common in the village; also is 1 leper in the village
- large cords of firewood + open cooking for took up end of room; toddler could easily wander into
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overnight at Patuhwattee guest house -- beautiful home built in Dutch period with antique wood burning stove, antique clock on mantlepiece, veranda overlooking a valley and tea-covered hills

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[[Left Magin]] another ash fall in the night [[/left margin]]
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 I shared a large room w/ Kus (our bathroom as large as the penitipan bayi for workers children we saw earlier in the day, & much cleaner)
 In the evening we all gathered around the fireplace in the corner of my & Kus' room and shared notes and impressions, as follows:

from Saras' notes
-plantation people can buy clothing at the small town of Ciwede (where the highway meets the gravel road leaving into the plantation area); often, however, buy from [[bakuls?]] who come into the plantation & sell for a higher price
companies issue no clothing; workers must supply all work garments including the stockings which they wear on their hands & lower arms to protect themselves from scratches, caterpillars, etc.; these stockings of the long heavy type, with cut - outs for fingers
-debts to the company store, whatever the amt., are taken out of earnings before [[crossed-out]] [[illegible]] [[/crossed-out]] pay issued; paid once a month

[[left margin]] w. Saras, Ork'g, Kus, Stella, self - [[/left margin]]