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Show I R REMEMBER" BY THE OLD TIMERS t from I.onnla E. Legge, I e-wis-burg, Wet Virginia: I n memUr when my father used to tell rnc I'd better watch out which side my bread was buttered on. I ;eeer understood 'till years later what he meant by it, as I always ate both sides anyway. Those days most babies learned to sit alone by sitting in a horse collar. Their teething was done on a harness ring. Folks Just went up the ridge and cut a thorn bush to sweep their yard in the spring It nut only cleaned it, but cultivated culti-vated at the same time. About that time the women folks would take a couple of dozen eggs to the store and swap them for a yard of print calico to make a ruffled split bonnet for summer wear. And men and women sat on opposite oppo-site sides of the church. From Mrs. Minnie Thomas, Bland, Missouri: I was born on a Missouri farm 60 years ago and wonder how many remember the pretty "lawn dresses" we wore and washed gently, hanging them in the shade so they wouldn't fade . the frilly petticoats, often three or four . . . the -trundle bed'' with a shuck tick to sleep on children's shoes came to the store in a wooden barrel instead in-stead of shoe boxes ... we had free range and the cow bell could be beard far from home ... it was u disgrace for a girl to have a date during the week days . noodeii ashes from huge fireplaces were put into a hopper and saved to make lye for soap. |