The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 60, July 1956 - April, 1957 Page: 102
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
the punishment just a stern lecture perhaps. Then the doctors,
or doctor I should say. The only one I remember while we lived
in that country was Dr. Hodges, a very dignified gentleman in
silk top hat, long black flapping coat and a pill bag. I can still
see the picture. To me he was an awesome sight. I fled to the
safety of the trundle bed and stayed there till he left. We had
a dug well a few hundred feet from the house, an iron bound
bucket manipulated down and up by hand windlas. A milk-
house stood very close to well. An extension of roof covered
well. In milkhouse were two large troughs made from hollow
logs. Each morning those troughs were drained and fresh water
drawn from well and troughs filled. Each housewife made her
soap from grease and ash lye. I can see the old ash hopper filled
with wood ashes ready for us children to pour water on the ashes
which filtered through in trough at bottom and drained into
a vessel. Soap was made by the barrel and put into smoke house
where molasses, lard and other things were stored. Bacon, hams
and sausage were smoked and hung from above. What good
eats!
If a water mill was not too far my daddy took corn and wheat
and had them ground there. Our bread was so much better than
made of grains today. All life is burned out of them and then
they are sifted so many times there is little good left.
Most housewives then spun and wove the clothes for the fam-
ily. I remember my mother weaving two webs of cloth. The war
-Civil-affected us even in the west. Sometimes the ginned cot-
ton would run out and it was a long drive to a cotton gin. So
at night we children hand picked enough lint for next days
spinning on the spinning wheel.
Then there were no dyes. So bark, herbs and anything would
color cloth, were used to vary the color. The spun thread had
to be dyed, warped, reeled and, by a mysterious process put
through a sley then onto a roller ready for the web of cloth as
it was woven. I can not tell you just how it was put into the
loom, but I still in my imagination, can hear the zip of the shut-
tle as it is sent back and forth by the weaver. The coarse fabrics
then were a far cry from the delicate and exquisite weaves of
today.
Ft. Worth had two stores, then, one owned by E. M. Daggett,102
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 60, July 1956 - April, 1957, periodical, 1957; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101163/m1/115/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.