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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Father Terrence who wrote (51219)	8/14/1999 6:24:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (3) of 108807

So my great-aunt Kate, who at 4'8", owned and operated a commercial laundry and once broke up a knife fight between two of her brawny employes, was an aberration? She'd have had your head for that observation, dear. My mother worked from the time she was sixteen until her death at 76, four years ago, much of the time supporting her husband as well as her children. It seems to me that it is all too easy to forget that until "modern conveniences," women at home worked incredibly hard. Have you ever read Wilder's "Little House" series? The work those women did was backbreaking. When is the last time you ever made cheese, starting with raising the heifer through putting the curds into the cheese press and aging it? Made soap from fat and ashes? Toiled your way through a blinding blizzard to feed and water the stock while "the man of the house" was off trying to sell furs in town? Made your own clothes and sheets sewing by hand? Helped your husband build a house without even the benefit of nails? Gave birth in the wilderness with no midwife? Need I go on?

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