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Deering High School
Class of 1956
Be Loyal to the Purple, Be Loyal to the
White
Go Rams !!!
Washing Clothes Recipe
Said to have been found in an old scrapbook of an Alabama grandmother to her new bride granddaughter - spelling errors and all.
WASHING CLOTHES Build fire in backyard to heat kettle of rain water. Set tubs so smoke wont blow in eyes if wind is pert. Shave one hole cake of lie soap in boilin water. Sort things, make 3 piles: 1 pile white, 1 pile colored, 1 pile work britches and rags. To make starch, stir flour in cool water to smooth, then thin down with boiling water. Take white things, rub dirty spots on board, scrub hard, and boil, then rub colored don't boil just wrench and starch.
Take things out of kettle with broom stick handle, then wrench, and starch. Hang old rags on fence. Spread tea towels on grass. Pore wrench water in flower bed. Scrub porch with hot soapy water. Turn tubs upside down. Go put on clean dress, smooth hair with hair combs. Brew cup of tea, sit and rock a spell and count your blessings.
Paste this over your washer and dryer. Next time when you think things are bleak, read it again, kiss that washing machine and dryer, and give thanks. First thing each morning you should run and hug your washer and dryer, also your toilet--- those two-holers used to get mighty cold!
For non-southerners - wrench means rinse. You thought you had it rough...
High School Reunion
Sitting at a table during a recent high school reunion, I
could not resist staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat
alone
at a nearby table. A friend sitting with me asked,
"Do you know her?"
Yes," I sighed, "She's my old girlfriend. I understand
she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I
hear
she hasn't been sober since."
"My God!" said my friend, "Who would think a person could
go on celebrating
that long?
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