Hi Deb, Your email made me think of when I got married. My Aunt always ironed my underwear but my future wife stated "I will not be ironing your underwear after we are married!!" So, that was the end of me wearing underwear that had been ironed. Tom Powell ------------------------------------------------------------------- I've been reading some of these posts to my mother, age 90, who was a teacher in a country school in 1937. She attended Iowa State Teachers College (now UNI) for two years and then taught at a country school in Boyd, Iowa for one year. Then she married my father over the summer and quit teaching. She said she heard that if you were married you couldn't teach, but didn't know if it was true in her case. She had planned on quitting once she got married anyway. My father was a farmer and life on the farm was hard. They had big gardens and did all their canning. She sewed all their clothes. They didn't have the conveniences that we have now to make housework easier. And when we wasn't working in the house, she was taking care of the chickens, mowing grass and helping my father whenever he needed an extra pair of hands. She cooked three meals a day and they were substantial meals. And then when the children started coming along, there wasn't daycare available and diape! rs had to be washed and hung on the clothes line to dry. Mondays were laundry day, Tuesdays were devoted to ironing. And everything was ironed, sheets and my dad's underwear included. There simply wasn't time to have a career as well. Some of her friends that were teachers and then quit when they got married went back to teaching once their children were in school. Deb **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62)

If you use enough white corn cobs after the initial red one, you don't need underwear Tom. May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! (Irish proverb) ----- Original Message ----- From: <NHBigRed@aol.com> To: <IOWA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 3:32 PM Subject: [IOWA] Ironing Underwear > Hi Deb, > Your email made me think of when I got married. My Aunt always ironed my > underwear but my future wife stated "I will not be ironing your underwear > after > we are married!!" So, that was the end of me wearing underwear that had > been > ironed.

Here we goooooooooo.....................;-) Don Woodley RAOGK for Bremer, Butler, Floyd and Franklin Counties in Iowa. Researching Woodley, Butler, Ayers, Trindle, Cornford, Relf, Lingenfelter and others as time permits.