Water heated on the stove was poured into the dishpan with soap flakes or shaved soap. When plumbing was first installed inside the house, it was usually a water pump. The phrase was, “If I were twenty years younger, I would be outside your Mama’s kitchen door every time you emptied the dish water!” (A definitely “Yuck!” for me!) For younger readers, I will explain. This saying was most like to get an eye roll or a disapproving remark from the young lady. There was an old saying that men used to say to young ladies who were pretty but too young for him. Just like the young man singing to his girl, Katy! There were many young men marching home with homes and dreams of a bright future. Thankfully, the Lord prevented him from dying in the war! Evangelist Billy Sunday had a crusade and Ezekiel “Zeke” Purdy received Christ as his savior. One boy and one cute little girl! In the 1920’s, there was a Revival in Roanoke, Virginia where this family lived. They were married and had two beautiful children.
He did survive and met a pretty girl named Margie. He had been hit with mustard gas the Germans horrendous weapon. Then I remembered my husband’s grandfather was a “Doughboy” who fought in World War I aka known as “The war to end wars.” So he would have marched home in the local parade in 1918 when they returned home. He was perhaps nervous about talking to his girl!)
(This edition is actually a song performance recorded on a Thomas Edison’s Blue Amberol Cylinder and is called the “Stammering Song.” I don’t think he was making fun of people who studder.
0 kommentar(er)
