Our parents set good examples for we children. They cared for their parents and other family members. If there was anyone ill in the neighborhood, they were the first ones there to nurse, feed the family or whatever else needed to be done. One of our neighbors' husband was mentally ill and at Patton State Hospital in Norwalk. Once in a while he would run off and come home and many times my daddy got up in the middle of the night and took him back to the hospital.

I can appreciate more than ever as the years go by how hard my parents both worked. Daddy worked all day long, then came home and planted and tended gardens on the lot next to us - besides raising chickens and turkeys. On wash day daddy would come home and get mother and take her to work with him so she could rest. My sister and I always set the table and did dishes. We all ate breakfast and dinner together.

Mother had no washing machine so she scrubbed clothes on an old fashioned washing board for several years as well as all her other household chores, baking, cleaning, ironing, mending and so on. She also made nearly all we girls and her own dresses and petticoats. Still every night was family night as we gathered round the kitchen table and played games or listened to mother and daddy tell us stories about their childhood. If daddy had a sales meeting to go to mother would read to us or get out her sewing machine and sew for us and our dolls and Danny would do the pressing.

On Saturdays we all went into Huntington Park to do staple shopping at the big market, go to the "Dime Store", Wineman's if we needed clothing or household items - then after dinner we'd go to the Lyric Theater which was a family show house in those days - with vaudeville.

On Sunday mornings we kids would pile in bed with the folks. It was such fun
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