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Show I "I REMEMBER" BY T!3 OLD TIMERS From Myrtle Tracewell Kurtf, Danbury, Iowa: I remember when Mother used the nice clean husks from the corn to make filling for the ticks for the bed. We children would strip the husks into shreds, All washtubs. and from there, they would go into the bed ticks. When sewing up tha lengthwise seam in the middle of the stick, a short gap was left into which, when the bed was made, a hand was inserted in-serted to stir up ht husks, until the tick was fluffy and level. Mother raised geese, from which she plucked the down for bed pillows. pil-lows. Sweet corn was dried by placing it, after it was blanched and cut from the cob, on an old muslin sheet. This was placed in the sunshine sun-shine on top the "lean to" of the house, with mosquito netting over it to protect it from the insects. At night it was brought Inside. Sometimes it took two or three . days of sunshine to dry the corn. And such a wonderful flavorl From Harry M. Bresler, Colorado Colo-rado Springs, Colorado: remember remem-ber when I Was In my teens, watching our cows on the hills and valleys of Pennsylvania. Most of the land now has houses built on it. During school days I had to clean out the stables and help feed the cows. After my mother milked the cows. I carried milk to our customers three pints or quarts, tin buckets on each arm. Then I walked almost a mile to a one-room one-room country school, more than often arriving late. |