Show I REMEMBER EMM ER 11 1 BV Dl TilE THE OLD From W. W E. E la Ia Plante L Lemon mon Grove California My memory does docs not go back as far as lIS that of ot H. H J J. J Scott of ot Manchester Ohio That It la Is I 1 do not remember the theold theold theold old time hack In my boyhood days In Fargus Falls Minnesota I Ire re remember remember member when the streets were so full of chuck holes that I could not ride my bicycle In the streets But I do remember when we put logs Into the fireplace and let the ends burn oft off and pushed the logs Into the fireplace from time to time And I remember that when we got nice new brass beds we took the side boards of ot the old wooden beds and stuck them into the fireplace same as we did the logs But we nearly burned the house down There were three or four coats of paint and varnish on the old sideboards and the heat of the burning ends softened up all this paint and varnish and the flames names worked right back Into the room We had a heck of a time getting get get- ting them out of the fireplace and carrying them outdoors From Mrs Leslie LesUe Graham Mackinaw Mackinaw Mack Mack- Illinois I remember when every everyone one used large square ruffled ruffled ruf ruf- ruf fled pillow shams hams embroidered with flowers and verse Mother had a sham embroidered in lilies The left one read The be lilies close their leaves at night the right one And open with the morning light Another old favorite favorite favo favo- rite read on the left I slept and dreamed that life was beauty the right one I woke and found that life was duty From Mrs E. E Maria McNair 1403 N. N St. St Clair Street Pittsburgh 6 Pa I remember 65 years ago my father had a set of zinc shelves held together by a rope and raised and lowered from the pump bed into the well but not touching the water In it we kept our food tood One Onetime Onetime Onetime time the rope broke dropping a roast eggs butter and milk into the water He had to clean out the well to avoid contaminating the water a tremendous undertaking |