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Show "I REMEMBER"! BY THEME-TIMERS From Charles Mohr to Mrs. Mary Stewart: "My hobby is recollecting recollect-ing and collecting old sayings and proverbs and among them are these 'dated' expressions (the type you have been recollecting for 'I Remember'): 'Cold as & cucumber' cucum-ber' (1599), 'So's your old mnl rtw 1930 (1925), 'Like looking for a needle in a haystack' (1612), 'Cutting ofl your nose to spite your face' (1657), 'In a pig's eye!' (1904) and 'Oh yeah!' (1930.) I'll be looking for more of same in 'our' column." From Mrs. Minnie M. Brazil of Oilton, Okla.: "I remember when I was a little girl at Junction City. Kan., it was my job to meet the milk man each morning. I took a quart pail with me to the curb where he stopped in front of our house with his horse-drawn wagon and from a tall can much like our water coolers now he drew the milk from a spigot into a quart or pint measuring cup and emptied it into my bucket. He sold six tickets for 25 cents and each ticket was good for a quart of milk." From Mrs. Vena Norton of Mesa, Ariz.: "I remember how we aspired as-pired to learn how to spin and weave and do other clever things like our elders could do. I remember remem-ber how proud I was of the rag carpet I wove for Mother. It was tacked to the floor and fresh straw was placed underneath." From Mrs. E. L. Vaughn of Tate- vllle, Ky.: "I remember when all our cooking was done over a fireplace. fire-place. In the summer we'd wash I our bed ticks and fill them with straw for the 'carded beds, which had no slats or springs. We children chil-dren would sleep on trundle bed which was slid under the big bed when not in use." |