Farm girls, Newhall, Iowa, 1920s
Our farm was a mile from the school. This was my first experience of walking to school. When the weather was bad, Dad would harness the horse and take us in a buggy. In the [1910s], we didn’t have slacks — we wore long underwear, black tights, long black stockings, and four-buckle overshoes. The older children would carry drinking water from the Armstrong farm, a short distance away…
We learned to play jacks. Having cement sidewalk was almost a requirement for the game. We would play by the hour. I can recall playing until my fingernails were gone, due to scraping the cement to gather the jacks. [Cousin] Luella often joined us…
Luella and I enjoyed the [farm] cats and kittens, dressing them in doll clothes. The cats didn’t seem to mind, for they would go to sleep. — Melba Gardemann Olson unpublished memoir, 1993
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