Living on the farm we had very few accommodations. We didn't consider ourselves poor because we had never been used to things like an indoor toilet. Our water supply was a pump on the back porch and on laundry day we pumped water to fill up two tubs. A fire was built under one of the tubs to boil the clothes and the other tub was used to rinse them. After the washing was finished the clothes would be hung on clothes lines with wooden clothes pins. One of the big problems was if it should start raining and the clothes was almost dry we had to bring them in and hang them over any place we could find.
My brother was working for Holsum Bread Company at one time and he insisted that I iron his Uniform shirts. In those days the irons had to be heated in front of the fire place and the irons had to be cleaned thoroughly before they were put on the shirts. Starch for the shirts was made by boiling flour and water. The shirts had to be sprinkled with water out of a bottle that had holes punched in the top. Needless to say standing in front of that hot fire ironing shirts for the day was not a chore I would choose for a Profession.
Our cook stove was heated with wood and to the side it had a reservoir that water was kept in to heat for the cooking and dish washing. It had a warming oven at the top and I cannot remember a time when my Mother didn't have some good home cooked biscuits keeping warm for us to eat.
My journey continues later.
by Louise Price Headden Hilton
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