I have told you how I love to read. I have been reading The Kintra years by Janice Holt Giles. It is a good book. She told me something that I had wondered about.
My grand mother Powell's father Bee Maples peddled apples by a wagon and I didn't know quit how he did this but she explained in the book that some one would load a wagon with apples and start down the road with an apple stuck on the brake handle. People passing would know that this was an apple peddler and stop him to buy apples.The fellow would keep moving until he had sold all of his apples!
She told how her sister and girl friends would cut paper dolls from a catalogs and play with them. I did the same and she mentioned the catalogs that they had to cut paper dolls from SEARS ROEBUCK , remember when sear was sears and roebuck. She all so mentioned THE NATIONAL BELLAS HESS COMPANY. I have not seen that catalogs since I was a girl. She didn't mention how we had a catalogs in our out house to wipe on. No toilet paper in my childhood!
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Things are surely changed. I guess you could call using the catalog for toilet paper...recycling.
We don't want to tell...that Bee got drunk after he sold a load of the apples and got pnuemonia and died because he slept in the cold...I guess passed out drunk...well, is it true? Like Paul Harvey says...the rest of the story!!
You Ladies are so funny! I remember Sears & Roebuck and Bellas Hess also and I remember what the pages were for. Sears used to be THE place to shop and look what happened. I think Wal-Mart will go down one day also.
Patsy, will that program you mentioned be any better than Kodak Easy Share? Thanks!
We city girls always had toilet tissue, but I cut my share of paperdolls out of the Sears catalog. Thanks for the good memories.
Hard apple cider for Bee, right?
That's a good story about apple peddling, Patsy.
Every now and then I'll have a fruit peddlar come by my house, usually in the winter, usually oranges or grapefruit from Texas. But they just walk up to the door with a box of fruit. Only an ordinary car outside.
bless having soft toilet paper!!
I used to cut the Betsy McCall paper dolls and their clothes out of the McCall magazines to play with. Hadn't remembered that in ages.
Carmon
I remember the Sears catalog but it was for picking out what we wanted for Christmas. Never heard of Bellas Hess. And I'm glad the world had come far enough by the time I was born that we had indoor toilets and toilet paper. I really enjoyed your story of childhood thought. Things were simpler and safer back then, that is for sure.
I love your nostaligic postings - they are a real insight into how you and your family lived.
Those were the days huh?
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