From nobody Sat Oct 7 13:28:23 2006 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k97JSNif006299 for ROOTS-M; Sat, 7 Oct 2006 13:28:23 -0600 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k97JRiYn005651 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2006 13:27:44 -0600 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.41]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k97JRh5K030683 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2006 13:27:43 -0600 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k97JRhl3005621 for ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com; Sat, 7 Oct 2006 13:27:43 -0600 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k97JRhYn005610 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2006 13:27:43 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k97JRgwr030580 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2006 13:27:42 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k97GiuFI032330 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2006 12:44:56 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k97GiuAH032329 for roots-l@rootsweb.com; Sat, 7 Oct 2006 12:44:56 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k97EVYFI031985 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2006 10:31:34 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k97HEBp0019858 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sat, 7 Oct 2006 11:14:11 -0600 X-Envelope-From: paul_odlesr@yahoo.com Sat Oct 7 11:14:10 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k97HEAYn019847 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2006 11:14:10 -0600 Received: from web60913.mail.yahoo.com (web60913.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.179.2]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id k97HE67w004801 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2006 11:14:09 -0600 Received: (qmail 23464 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Oct 2006 17:14:02 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=MI3H6KaUItbf5nsXtoMPngYZWGAhmy2le7UGPpKDlP3Hiy7QuXjKoPyu2VfCRFmDcB8HrRGEHcI7gT6O65tax6aPAwtEtAazHlU6tO7yU+zQQs/UX2/Lwm2G/KRyEvuEWcJo3BSWLt5HFz2fZ6Odmbrcu2lAWkqKvqdr/YgMMzs= ; Message-ID: <20061007171402.23458.qmail@web60913.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.141.90.216] by web60913.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 07 Oct 2006 10:14:02 PDT Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 10:14:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Odle To: Roots Webb MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 192.168.65.34 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by lists5.rootsweb.com id k97HEBp0019858 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by roots-l.rootsweb.com id k97EVYFI031985 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Memorie 'Round The Mill Grandmothers ¡®Round The Mill This Story takes place in the mid and late 1930¡¯ and during the 1940¡¯s in the town of Yukon, Oklahoma. Yukon was a tiny Oklahoma town on old Route 66 with two flourmills ¡°the Dobry Flour Mill.¡± and Yukon¡¯s Best Flour Mill that kept the men folks employed. This story takes shape back in the good old days when you froze to death in the winter months and you burned up in the summer months. There was so such thing as air conditioning in the summer months. Some folks ¡¯round town slept in their front yards as it was to hot to sleep indoors. Those years following the Great Depression town folks had their back yard planted in every kind of vegetable that we knew about then. In one corner of the back yard you could find Chickens in their chicken pen. The chickens kept the family supplied in meat, eggs and fertilizer for the garden. In the other corner of the back yard was the family milk cow and cowshed. The cow not only kept the family in milk, cr¨¨me and butter you could trade the cr¨¨me and your eggs at the Mercantile Store for Flour, Sugar and Corn Meal to bake the families daily bread, cornbread and many other things. If you did not raise it, grow it, shoot or catch it you probably went hungry! There was no such thing as body deodorant. In the summer time both men and women [perspired profusely and you could recognize people by their scent. The dress of the day around your home for women was their housedress, aprons, bonnets, and yes even their underwear was made from the pretty printed material of the 100 # bags of Chicken feed and flour. Everything had to be washed, starched and ironed. My Grandmother Odle had some beautiful bonnets that she cut out of Feed sacks and shaped around cardboard, soaked in starch, then pressed it with an iron. The Bonnets were made with 2 inch wide ties that were long and tied in a big bow in front. The Bonnett, the housedress and the apron were all the same print. Women had to save feed sacks until they had enough fabrick with the same color of print to fashion their creation. Chicken feed sacks and flour sacks were also used to fashion bed sheets and pillowcases. The Grandmothers of that day crochet around the edge of the pillowcases thus making them look fancy. The Aprons had big pockets in front that carried a lace hankerchief and a bottle of camphor to dab at skin cancers on their faces and arms from the hot sun rays beating down on their faces and arms while spending long hours working in the gardens and fields. The aprons served as sacks to carry fresh picked fruits and vegetables from the gardon. Shy Grandchildren hide beneath Grandma¡¯s apron when company came. And Grandma wiped many a tear off a crying Childs face with her apron. Now when Yukon Grandmothers went to town to shop for groceries or go to the Post Office to pick up mail their dress was a whole different story. Those Old Sweaty Grandma¡¯s cleaned up nicely. They fixed their hair with a curling iron they flamed over the burners of their stove. They put Lady Esther face power on their faces and Tan gee Lipstick and red rouge on their cheeks to make them look rosy. Talcum powered their fresh bathed bodies, a little touch of Lilac water here and there. They put on their best Sunday Go to Meeting dress with matching hat gloves and hi healed shoes and they walked to town with the dignity of a Queen. And now Grandma looks like Mrs. America. God doesn¡¯t make Grandma¡¯s today like he use to, those Grandma¡¯s are only Memories ¡®Round The Mill. By Paul L.Odle, Sr. Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center P.O. Box 849 Lawton, Oklahoma 73502 1-580-354-3287 Paul_OdleSr@yahoo.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? 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