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Show "I REMEMBER"; 1 BY THE OLD Tims. From Mrs. Eva M. Bradverry, McDougal, Arkansas: I remember remem-ber the winters of yesteryears, when our living room furniture was three iron bedsteads, straw mattresses and huge feather beds. We had bolsters then and covered it with white counterpanes. counter-panes. I can still see the marble-top bureau, the stand table with a kerosene lamp, the big family bible on the little shelf under the stand table. Yes! And the big trunk that set between two of the beds in the back part of the room. Mom's bed was up front, near the , fireplace (made it warmer to change the baby at night). Can't ' you see three big rocking chairs 1 there near the fireplace; the four- ' gallon churn that set nearby; flat irons on the hearth and on the 1 mantle the clock that has been 1 in the family for years. It has called out the time, every hour, on the hour, since grandpa was a baby. Come back with me to those olden times. We'll put some beans and a ham bone in the iron dinner kettle and hang it on the hook just over the logs. They'll be cooking in no time, so pull up a rocker. I will put some sweet potatoes po-tatoes in the dutch oven . . . stir up some corn bread to bake it in an iron skillet . . . (and) pour you a cup of sassafras tea. (Send contributions to this eolams to Tho Old Timer, Commsnity FreM Ssrrlcs, Box it, Frankfort, Kentucky.) |
