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Show ' IREMEMBER"! BY THE OLD TIMERS '1 : From Mrs. Viola D. Gerwig. of Frametown, W. Va.: I remember when "apple cuttings" were big society events. The family at whose home the apple cutting was to take place, put in the day bringing bring-ing in huge stocks of apples. That night the whole community gathered gath-ered and peeled and cut apples. V ; 1 i ! 1 1 '-a -j-i Next day the youngsters of the family strung the cut apples on long strings and hung them across - the fireplace, or tied the ends together to-gether and hung them on a rack in front of the fireplace, to dry the apples. Huge bunches of these strings of apples hanging on the kitchen wall was a common sight. After the apples were cut, games were played." From Mrs. Edward McKenzIe of Jamestown, N.D.: I remember Mother's remedy for a bad cold was onion soup taken internally and goose grease and camphor or turpentine plentifully spread on a woolen cloth and applied to the chest. She kept a can of turpentine turpen-tine handy to pour into open wounds from rusty nails or lacerations from barbed wire, etc. ... A sure cure for sore throat was a generous gen-erous slab of salt fat pork plentifully plenti-fully sprinkled with black pepper and fastened about the neck with a woolen rag. Some hardier souls saved the fat from a skunk to be used as a poultice for rheumatism and various other aches and pains. (Contributions for this column should be addressed to the Old-Timers Old-Timers Column, Box 340, Frankfort, Frank-fort, Ky.) |