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Show !"I REMEMBER" BY THE OLD TIMERS a--, , 1 From Mrs. Leila McDaniel, Murray, Mur-ray, Ky.: I remember when before be-fore putting the carpet on the floor, we put a layer of thin wheat straw on the floor first and then put the carpet down and , tacked it all around the edges. From Flora Dietrich, El Paso, Texas: Tex-as: I remember taking my pail and going out In the fields along the fields along the old rail fences to pick wild strawberries, which my mother made Into delicious Jam. From Mr. Marie Nance, Orange Pity, Fla.: I am 63 years old. I remember when I was a girl Mother Moth-er game me IS cents with which I was to buy at the market a loaf of bread for five cents and two pounds of beef liver for supper for a fam-: fam-: ily of six. From Mrs. Mary E. O'Deil, Sequiin, Wash.: I remember when we had straw ticks to climb into every fall,. They were washed and filled with good oat straw. You nearly needed a ladder to get into bed, as our feather ticks were on top of the straw ones. From Mary Karen, Lakevlew, Ohio: I remember kraut making time. We would invite the neighbors in to help. There was a clean spade to chop the cabbage and a wooden barrel with stamper. We children were handed dishes of juicy kraut as treat. (Mail your, memories to THE OLD TIMER, Box 340, FRANKFORT, FRANK-FORT, KY.) |