Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Risser
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This morning the thermometer
said that the outside temperature
was 21 degrees. However, our
house is a comfortable 70 degrees
as I dress for breakfast.
All of this got me to thinking
of dressing in the house where I
was born. It was a large 10-room
house. And, the only heat was a
big black stove in the kitchen. So,
we learned to dress in a hurry in
the bedroom where I and two sis
ters slept three in an old red
rope bed with a chaff bag for a
mattress. We wore long under
wear and long brown stockings,
held up by garters, to keep
warm. A black stove pipe ran
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through our room to the chim
ney.
There was another stove in the
house and only on Sunday was
this parlor stove lit. It had a lot of
fancy nickel trim and sat on a
metal pad in the living room with
the horsehair sofa and chairs. My
mother had them recovered one
time and I was told that the ma
terial had to be shipped from Eu
rope.
The cookstove had a resevoir
on the side for warm water. It
was used to wash dishes in a dry
sink, which still stands in the
family room in my present house.
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My father many times told us
never to pour kerosene on the
slow burning fire, but rather dip
the com cobs into a tin of kero
sene and add them to a slow fire.
Both wood and coal were
burned in the stove depending on
the weather. The very first job
that I was given was to pick up
wood chips to start the fire. And,
I remember disliking the job a
lot. Now I can simply adjust a
thermostat on the wall and get
whatever temperature that I
want from our fuel oil furnace in
the basement.