Show ay tilt OLD from M S breniser brower middletown to pa I 1 remember wh when n you wore button shoes and how it wag wes to put PIA them on lf if the buttonhook became lost we had to borrow a ift hairpin to get them through the holes from mrs S B pittman jacksonville texas I 1 remember 77 years ago when my bister became at od school age there was no other children near us for or her to go with so my father told the school authorities ho he would send her if they would let me KO go with her they consented we had to walk 2 miles through deep woods there even a rood road dad blazed a trail for us in those days we wore long woolen stockings and high shoes with skirts long enough to keep our legs warm from S 1 I mcginnia Mc Cinnia linnis culloden W via I 1 can remember helping my mother weave rag mg rugs during the long winter nights when I 1 was a boy we made our dye to color the rugs from bark and I 1 remember elt sl opine pirt under the eves eyes of the house houx and the snow sitting under the eves on to our beds it seems winters in those days were much worse than then they en ore now from ellen A stewart north california lr irenem enem ber when my father paid veld the groc grocery col bill the grocer would always give him a big bag of mixed candy candor toi in striped bags we used to buy gum cm that owna in S round tins tin with live five pieces of gum to the tin which was the size gize of a quarter from iva C oliver perry florida I 1 remember when I 1 was a child of about 10 my broth brothers lers and six children who were wore our neighbors took me on a anut gla party we st early one f saturday morning in october taking baskets of lunch for a at now a jug os of waiter and two sacks to be frilled with I 1 lived in in southeast missouri end arld the bip waa was some 8 or 9 miles to the mississippi river bottoms where there was an la abundance buada e of hickory treca trees and nd some pecan trees on this ard trip we brought home enough n nuts I 1 to throughout t the win ter fair for eating after supper and for mother nabet to use in making demous nut mt cakes and candies the day was soon spent and we made the long trip back home ham in an old waon wagon pulled by two ables reaching home after dark and ready for a ia good warm supper mlis outing took k place aboul 60 years ago |