"RECEET" FOR WASHING CLOTHES

1. bild fire in backyard to het kettle of rain water. 2. set tubs so smoke won't blow in eyes if wind is pert. 3. shave one hole cake lie sope in bilin water. 4. Sort things. make 3 piles. 1 pile white, 1 pile cullord, 1 pile werk britches and rags. 5. stur flour in cold water to smooth. then thin down with bilin water. 6. rub dirty spots on board, scrub hard. then bile. rub cullord but don't bile -- just rench and starch. 7. take white things out of kettle with broomstick handel, then rench, blew and starch. 8. Spred tee towels on grass. 9. Hang old rags on fence. 10. Pore rench water in flower bed. 11. Scrub porch with hot, sopy water. 12. turn tubs upside down 13. go put on cleen dress -- smooth hair with side combs. brew cup of tee -- set and rest and rock a spell and COUNT BLESSINGS.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Note from GranGran--I found the black and white print of this while looking through tole painting patterns I used back in the 1970's and colorized it. I would love to give someone credit for the orginal, but there's no name on it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I received an eMail from Barbara saying: This was an anonymous note (c. 1900) on display at the Whistler Museum and Archives in Whistler, British Columbia. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - and Joyce eMailed with this: "Given by a pioneer woman to her daughter,then a bride." Adapted from Together Magazine by Peg Earp Like this page? Send it to a friend! Friend's Email('s) You may enter up to 10 separated by commas. Enter Your Address Veinotte's Pass It On program. Sign Guestbook ~ View Guestbook Home ~ eMail <bgsound src="ThoseWereTheDaysMyFriend.mid" loop="infinite"> "Those Were The Days, My Friend" | GranGran's This And That Home Page | GranGran's Graphics | GranGran's Little Bit of Texas | GranGran's Little Bit of Christmas | Meet my Family | I Believe in Miracles |