Roosevelt Standard | 1951-05-31 | Page 10 | "I Remember" by the Old Timbers

1 REMEMBER"! BY THr OLDIIMSRS j L - - . i - -I From E. E. Meredith, Fairmont, W. Va.: Do you remember when mantels were artistically draped with fancy diaphanous strips of material called "lambrequins?" From Bessie Williams, Decatur, 111.: I remember my mother cleaning house on Saturday by moving all the furniture out on the porch while she gave the front room a good sweeping by putting wet papers on the floor. From Mrs. Ida Combs, Gilboa, Ohio: I remember when we didn't have electric lights. My dad would go to the woods and get pine and he would make us children hold the pine lights for him to do things. And the tar would run down on our hands and burn us. I was married in 1900 and never saw an orange until after my first child was born. From Mrs. W. E. Mlesner, Over land Park, Kans.: I remember when we went to school in a one-room one-room white frame schoolhouse with outdoor rest rooms and wood and coal shed, with a big old heating stove at the back of the room, and when there was any night entertainments enter-tainments at ,the schoolhouse, there were coal oil lamps hanging hang-ing from the walls for lighting the room, and for the curtains on the "stae" there was a wire stretched across the front end of the room, with sheets pinned to the wire with big safety pins so that they would slide back and forth on the wire to open or close the curtains. From Emma Funk, Munster, Ind.: I remember when we would save the combings of our hair and made pictures. Of flowers framed and watch chains, also real hair for dolls. Wonder why we don't sa.c and sell combings now? (Mail ybur memories to The Old Timers, Box 340, Frankfort, Ky.)