In a message dated 9/20/99 7:18:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << >(nappies) for years. Their life was hard. They also learned to handle a gun >as well as many men in case of gangs coming around to rob, steal, and rape >while the men of the house were in the fields or off to war. All their chores >where done without running water, unless you want to consider grabbing a >bucket and running to the spring and back, no indoor facilities other than >the chamber pot, no electricity, and no telephones. Our children and >grand-children haven't a clue as to what these women did to run a household. >Betty. >> How ruue. And then of course when their husband died or became incapicitated they had the fields and crops for which they had to also care.