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The Ladies Page

By Dorothy B. Smith

Forest Grove Trailer Park Ontario, N.Y. 14519

At one time or another, we all talk of the "good old days" and of how we wish we could be back living them over again. Certainly life was lived at a much slower pace and folks had more time to spend with their families and friends. When I compare the methods of keeping house as we do it today with all the modern electrical appliances, with the methods of "the good old days", I am sure glad I live in the 20th century. How would you like to take up the rag carpet every spring and beat the dust out when it was hung over the clothes line and then retack it to the floor. Or refill the mattress with fresh straw when it became so lumpy, you could no longer get a good nights sleep. Or to carry water from the well spring and fill the wash boiler on Monday morning and do the weeks wash by the best method available.

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