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2B, HOOD COUNTY NEWS, GRANBURY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1985 Continued from Page IB Christian Science Services Hkiway 144 at the entrance of Rock larbor Estates Share your life with us! We'd like to know about your club meetings, weddings, family reunions, and other events important to you. Call us at 573-1177 BYNUM'S Air Conditioning Summer Check-Up Special $25.00 day or nights -FOSt SCfViCC- day only Sunday School 10:30 Service 10:30 ALL ARE WELCOME 326-4405 573-6436 We service oil brands Its furniture consisted of cottage (rope-bottom) chairs, a large table and "maybe one rocker from grandma or grandpa. He felt this was average for a farm family. In 1900, Marie's father bought a rent house across from Granbu-ry State Bank's present location. A green house is presently located on its site.

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(Her father continued this practice after her mother's death.) In contrast to today, the children had no entertainment in the evenings except what was provided at home. "My father made a good living and saw that we were fed and clothed. He was not the boss, but the leader. My mother kept us clean and the household in order. A child had his duty, too we pumped and carried water, chopped and brought in wood, fed the chickens, milked the cow.

I don't know, maybe rural children do that now maybe they push a button," she laughed. "We were busy all the time. What I was to do was always laid out for me. That's where we're slipping now. Children who are in trouble have had nothing to employ their minds.

They're always dreaming 'What to do "People now are asking 'Who am When my daddy told me to get the wood in, I knew who I was. You've got to help yourself. "We had a family altar my mother read the Bible, my father saw that it was done." This also answered the question "Who am "I was never without something I needed. My parents had plenty of time to sit and talk. When my father came home, we had a family circle.

Her voice rings with enthusiasm "I had the happiest life." Marie believes that "a mother should be there when the children get home from school. It is her duty to be in the home with her child. A mother should make a home for her children that they can bring friends home to. My home was always ready, we didn't have to ask, our friends were welcome. 'A mother must send her children to school with discipline if they are to make it in school.

If she reigns as the master of her household, the children will follow. "She holds the rein to holding the family together. The whole source is love. A woman's home is her palace--she is the boss of the home. "She has a right to express her opinion and vote like she wants to.

The husband and wife need to have an understanding about how far she can go. She should have control of the house and children." What was life as a young woman like? "My parents didn't allow me to date until after high school. (She graduated when she was 18.) 'Books and boys don't they told me. 'When you get your diploma, you'll be old enough to take care of yourself. They weren't being hard on me, they were just teaching me how to live." She did, however, slip off to her girlfriend's house when she was 16 and 17, where they "got dates and went to a show." "For what a girl does now, she gets a star in her crown I got a lick for it." Marie married in 1923.

She realizes "If I'd had children, I could not have worked. God didn't give me children, so I helped everyone who did have them. We did marvelous because we all helped each other. If someone was sick, a neighbor came and just took over--that's how close we were. There were no soup lines; if neighbors needed food, we took it." John grew up in the country on a farm; Marie was born and reared just a few blocks from the square.

His almost-1 00-year-old homestead started out as a one-floor bungalow with two or three ways snug and warm. Marie says that her family was average, that most families were much like hers, with very few above or below. A kitchen then was far from crowded with appliances. John remembers old-time "refrigerators." Milk coolers had shelves between two trays. Water trickled down from the top tray onto cloth-wrapped milk, butter and eggs and on into the bottom tray.

He says that it was actually quite efficient. Next came ice boxes, which were filled with bought ice. John got an electric refrigerator 20 years after he married. Speaking of cooling, he remembers women fanning themselves with large palm-leaf fans. Every kitchen was equipped with a woodstove and accompanying woodbox near the door.

The stove was made of iron and steel and had a vat on its side which held three gallons of water. This hot water was dipped out for washing dishes and taking baths. Marie's father, who was a carpenter, built the kitchen cabinet, which was on rollers and actually a piece of furniture. In it were shelves and a bin for potatoes and other vegetables. He also built the sink, which was 2 ft.

long and 18 in. wide. On top of it was a tin basin (washpan), dipper and soapdish. (Marie made her own soap for 30 years.) Nearby on a nail was a towel. There were shelves below the "sink.

He also built dish shelves in the kitchen. The kitchen was lighted by lamps. A country breakfast might include fried, home-cured pork, home-raised potatoes and eggs from the family chickens. Dinner on a farm was a one-pot affair, perhaps pot roast. "Now most of 'em eat out.

There was no money to eat out in the early days. Money was hard to get ahold of John remarked. His mother baked lots of yeast light bread. "Used to smell it coming in the door and it was good, tool" he recollected. Variety in the meals was mostly in desserts.

His favorite dessert was layered jelly cake, but green grape cobbler came in a close second. "It took about a dollar's worth of sugar to sweeten it, though!" His mother paid for groceries mostly with eggs. As a boy, John packed them for her in cottonseed, fie started with a two-inch layer of cottonseed in a wooden box. He then added a layer of 3-4 dozen eggs, another layer of cottonseed, more The box would end up holding 15-20 dozen eggs. Later the family acquired an egg case, which held 30 dozen eggs.

This brought $8-10 "and that bought a lot of groceries back then!" To illustrate the value of a dollar, he explained that a dollar was a day's wages when he worked as a dependent thresher before his marriage. At each farm he loaded bundles of grain onto a wagon, then tossed them into the threshing machine with a fork. Dependent threshers would be fed at the farmhouse where they were working. Threshing time brought farm wives the annual responsibility of feeding the threshers. "We got a nice meal different kinds of meats, potatoes cooked different ways, cakes and pies." Marie's family had spring and fall gardens and an orchard, and like most other families, was almost self-sufficient when it came to food.

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