Remember when the government sent folks around to schools ,etc. to teach folks how to make mattresses ? There was a lot of surplus cotton after a bumper crop and no place to sell it, so the government ...is a rare case of sensable-itis, got together teams of people and sent them out to schools, etc. When they came to our area they had the meeting at the 1 room country school .. we all went and Mama made a mattress out in the front yard. . The Gov. supplied the ticking and all and the neighbors each made a mattress...It was sewn through the cotton with long needles...We were cautioned about playing on the ground under the 'tables' but Sister Joyce 'didn't mind,' and got a needle stuck in her cheek...I can just barely remember it...It was about 1940... Seems like we had enough mattresses, because we had few beds, except the large baby bed had a straw mattress...I can remember making up a new mattress for it...The 2 oldest boys slept across the dog trot hall in a big unheated room, and the rest of us slept in the big front room which was warmed by a fire place. ...Mom and Dad and a baby or two in one bed , and the next four of us girls in another full sized bed. Two at the head and two at the foot .Feather beds and pretty quilts Mom had made helped keep us warm in the winter time. Wonder how far under the jail they would put you now for raising us the way they did....Working in the fields starting about age 5 , etc.....Jeannie T ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210

What great memories! We may see similar things happening again, think we are in for some rough days ahead. Kay In a message dated 10/06/10 01:25:41 Central Daylight Time, askgranny@juno.com writes: Remember when the government sent folks around to schools ,etc. to teach folks how to make mattresses ? There was a lot of surplus cotton after a bumper crop and no place to sell it, so the government ...is a rare case of sensable-itis, got together teams of people and sent them out to schools, etc. When they came to our area they had the meeting at the 1 room country school .. we all went and Mama made a mattress out in the front yard. . The Gov. supplied the ticking and all and the neighbors each made a mattress...It was sewn through the cotton with long needles...We were cautioned about playing on the ground under the 'tables' but Sister Joyce 'didn't mind,' and got a needle stuck in her cheek...I can just barely remember it...It was about 1940... Seems like we had enough mattresses, because we had few beds, except the large baby bed had a straw mattress...I can remember making up a new mattress for it...The 2 oldest boys slept across the dog trot hall in a big unheated room, and the rest of us slept in the big front room which was warmed by a fire place. ...Mom and Dad and a baby or two in one bed , and the next four of us girls in another full sized bed. Two at the head and two at the foot .Feather beds and pretty quilts Mom had made helped keep us warm in the winter time. Wonder how far under the jail they would put you now for raising us the way they did....Working in the fields starting about age 5 , etc.....Jeannie T ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message