As I Remember Them

become woollen blankets for the beds, to shut out the winter cold. There were a couple of knitting machines where my mother would get the upper leg of the long socks reaching up to the knees, and she would knit on the foot.

Several hens were kept, and they were fed mostly wheat. Many eggs were used in the home but their great— est use was for sale, in order to buy sugar, salt, pep- per, and molasses, as well as kerosene for the lamps and lanterns.

In those days children’s clothing was much different from today. The shoes for boys in winter were lumber— man’s rubbers, and the poor girls had to wear low shoes and over-stockings. There were no synthetics such as nylon or polyester. We wore woollen mackinaw wind- breakers, but they were unlined and the wind blew right through them. I envy the children who sit in heated buses with their warm clothes of modern times, and overshoes, which were unknown in my early days.

Little Sands