Ladies

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 11, 10 June 1893, Page 2

Ladies

WHAT OUR GREAT GRANDMOTHER DID. Xow, my little daughter, standing ’Ey my chair, is oft demanding, “Toll me, mother, what your Grandma [used to do. Did she hare much time for reading, Pauses heeding, And succeeding Well with music, draw, and paint on china too ?” “ Xo, my darling! Grandma never Had the time for such endeavour, Dor she worked from morn until the setting [sun. 81 io would call the cows so early, ‘ I )aisy ! Curley! Don’t be surly.’ And the milking then would speedily bo done “ She would strain the milk and churn it; Make a cheese, and deftly turn it ; Make soft soap, and brew the nicest currant wine. Dip the candles, nightly glowing, Little knowing, And bestowing, Scarce a thought on what a future light would shine. “ Card and spin the wool, nor leave it, ‘Till she into cloth would weave it. And she raised her flax, and wove her linen [fine. In a quilting she delighted, All invited, Xone were slighted ; t r a. paring and husking bee combine. “ t ho raised geese and plucked each feather, ■Cot 1 lie cloth and sowed together Every strip, to make a home-made carpet [gw; Ami she knitted every stocking, Meanwhile rocking, l 'h, ’twas shocking, A ll 1 lie work that woman went through in a day. Good Housekeeping. ,