—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 24, 1973
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Women Societies
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Society 31
Farm Women Society 31
donated $5O to the Brenda Fisher
fund and voted to support the
Welsh Mountain Health Clinic as
the County Project at the recent
meeting The meeting was held at
the home of Mrs Kenneth Rutt
with a joke or riddle as roll call
Announcement was made of
upcoming events, Spring Rally
on May 16 and “The Challenge of
Being A Woman” on April 3 and
4
The program was a night of
games and pn?es The next
meeting will be a progressive
supper beginning at the home of
Mrs Charles Witmer Husbands
are invited
Farm Women
Calendar
Saturday, February 24
Farm Women Society 4, In
spirational Talk, home of Mrs
Willis Reapsome, Landisville
Farm Women Society 29
members and husbands,
attend Hockey Game, Her
shey
Tuesday. February 27
7 30 p.m - Farm Women Society
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trailers and even aluminum brightening For INDUSTRY we clean signs, tanks (inside
and out) interior and exterior walls and degrease floors and machinery For MOBILE
HOME OWNERS wc can clean exterior surfaces canopies and porches fuel storage tanks
and provide an exterior waxing service For the HOME OWNER —we clean exterior sur
faces basement walls and floors and asphalt and cement flooring If you have a cleaning
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27 meeting, Martha Gerber,
hostess.
Wednesday, February 28
6:30 p m. - Farm Women Society
24 “Sweetheart Banquet”,
members and husbands,
Ramada Inn, Lincoln High
way E
7 30 p m - Farm Women Society
26, entertain husbands at
dinner and Hockey Game.
Thursday, March 1
12 Noon - Farm Women Society 17
Irish Covered Dish.
1 30 p m - Farm Women Society
20 Safety Program
Farm Women Society 9 Work
Day, home of Mrs Paul
Swearingen, Willow Street.
Friday, March 2
Farm Women Society 10 meeting,
home of Mrs. Jay Habecker,
2401 Spring Valley Road
“Tree Eaters”
The Adirondacks take their
name from the title, “tree
eater,” bestowed on a local
tribe of Indians who some
times were reduced by food
shortages to making soup
from the bark of trees.
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cludes 132 rooms, 39 bath
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For over 35 years, I’ve been
keeping a diary. Every day
making notes of what I did, where
I went and how I felt about things.
For many years each day I wrote
“regular work” and then went on
from there. But then I decided it
was better to expalin some things
as time changes everything.
No longer do I feed a baby
every four hours, change loads of
diapers or wash milkers, buckets
and strainers every morning.
Now there are other things to do.
As my Amish neighbor lady
said, “We are glad the Lord gave
us work, but we wish there wasn’t
so much of it.”
Often we travel along in a
comfortable fixed path or routine
until something happens which
causes us to make a decision and
change from our “regular work.”
XXX
Recently, I got some new
furniture'or rather, I should say,
old furniture. An old four-poster
bed and a marble-top bureau
belonging 'to my great
grandmother were exchanged for
Cindy’s bed and bureau. But then
the decisions - should some be
carried on the attib.for possible
use later or simply taken outside
and burned. We did both.
The next day Cindy told me she
felt like a queen sleeping in the
high bed. Me -1 felt like an old
lady from all the work of laying a
rug and moving heavy furntiure.
XXX
As soon as my children get sick
they are taken to the doctor for
shots and pills. But things
weren’t always this way.
One of my earliest recollections
is of my Mother in her nightgown,
long braids of dark hair hanging
down her back, standing beside a
kerosene lamp and heating small
onions to put into my ears for
painful earaches.
Other methods of curing ones
ills were linseed poultices for
sores, bits of bacon tied on where
splinters had been, cool plantain
leaves for bee stings and a
Ida Risser
teaspoon of cinnamon for
diarrhea.
When the animals got sick, we
gathered wild plants and made a
tea to'cure them.
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organization’s meeting. To get
your meeting on our Farm
Calendar, it’s safer to assume
we don’t know.
Remind us by calling 394-
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to Lancaster Farming, 22 E.
Main St., Lititz, Pa. 17543.
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P.S. If you’re not sure you
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hearing from you again.
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