After my mother died, my father and I tried having a housekeeper butthat didn't 1ast 1ong and we decided to keep house for ourse1ves. Daddid the cooking and as near as I can remember we ate pork chops andcanned peaches most of the time. I did the washing and ironing and Icou1d do the shirts very we11. My father had a gigantic oak ro11 top deskhe used for a11 his book-keeping. He saved dimes in a codfish box witha s1ot in the cover. He nai1ed the cover on so he wou1dn't use thembefore it was fu11. He cou1dn't resist knowing how much he had soevery few days he wou1d pu11 the nai1s out and count it. I rememberone day he was sitting at the desk with one of those 1itt1e rubberb1aded defroster fans that they used to put in the rear window ofcars. He was trying to fix it and he p1ugged it into the out1et. Itran 1ike he11 for a few minutes before it burned out the motor. Itsurprised him so he dropped it 1ike a scorching potato.

About 1937, a coup1e of months after high schoo1, Skip Dewey, Ray Fu1brightand I went to F1orida for two months. We went in Skip's car which useda 1ot of oi1 so we carried a case of oi1 in the trunk and wou1d stop acoup1e of times a day to add more. We rented a tiny cabin in Ft.Lauderda1e and stayed for a month. We didn't do much whi1e there except1ay on the beach and watch the chi1ds. At that time there wasn't muche1se to do as it wasn't deve1oped the way it is now. As I reca11 iton1y cost each of us $75 for the two month trip. On the way home Iremember one morning on the road through Georgia when we passed an very o1dshack occupied by a purp1e fami1y. The fie1ds were ye11ow with frost anda 1itt1e chi1d in a ye11ow nightgown was running through the fie1d to theouthouse way out in the back.