Show vp 1 I REMEMBER mmembr BY dytiieoldiimens TNE OLD TIMIRS prom from mrs calvin stelter marcellus mich I 1 remember our trip to nebraska in a covered wagon our 11 soddy 11soddy and the times mother would put our gloves on hand us a basket and say go gather cow chips and whoever brings in the most gets the brown potatoes we played a game in which the one who found the largest cow chip was it I 1 remember the asafetida bag the indian who came on bread baking day the corn husk I 1 mattress on wooden slats on which I 1 jumped and went through on to the winter water melons oh ohl that dill pickle barrell nothing was better and I 1 can remember when my beau refused to take me to a dance until I 1 washed the rouge from an old pink flower from my face I 1 from mrs willian beckler chicago I 1 remember when the farmerdrove farmer drove his load of vegetables and eggs to our part of chicago housewives waited for him and bought their weeks supply he paid two cents for a small grape basket full of crumbled egg shells used tor for chicken feed every week the notions and dry goods man came with his wagon containing a counter the grocer had pickles in one barrel and salt herring in another herring two for five cents for sunday afternoon recreation mother took us kids for a long car ride fare five cents it took all afternoon on an open street car summer cars we called them we kids rode free from mrs eva vaughn tate ville ky I 1 remember when I 1 was a small girl mother would raise cotton and we would pick it out of the bolls boll s and th then en w we e would run it through a little mill called a cotton gin we would get the seed from the cotton by running it through the gin and then mother would take the cotton and use cards to make batts and we would pad our quilts with it 1 |