Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-28

the display. Pieces of all shapes and
all sizes, with every kind of flower,
from moss pink to a princess feather,
and all the beautiful flowers made by
the hand = no machine work about
those. saw sights of quilts made in
every design and every style of every
kind of cloth in blocks to leok like
they were made OF wood, piled one on
top of another in mosaics. Herring
bone, ish-boue. diamonds. circles-I
guess every style and finish the human
mind could suggest. o, it is wonder
full what the human mind can do. In
one large case saw ever SO many
crazy quilts. 1t would take days and
weeks to describe each one. But such
a sight almost fascinated me, and such
sight of dolls; dolls little, and dolls
big. Some as large as a year old
child. with heads covered with golden
locks that reached way down their
backs. Dolls with hair as black as
the ravens wing, combed in long
tresses. l wish / had the gift of lam
guage to make you comprehend and
see all the beautiful things made by
the hands of women!
After we had exhausted all our
"ohs" and labs" we left this enchanted
hall and crossed over to the dairy
house. Here we saw every kind of
churn that had every been invented.
almost. Cream separators that would
make a hundred pounds of butter an
hour to little hand ones for family use
And butter workers! | saw one great
barrel churn that would hold several
barrels of cream, to go by power, run
ming by steam. We saw butter boxes
to pack butter in that would hold from
two pounds up to ten or twenty pounds
made of paper. And eheeses, saw
some cheeses that looked and smelled
Just like those big cheeses that my
mother used to make when | worked
in the house with her. 1t made my
mouth fairly water. just wanted to
cut me out good slice and sit down
in the shade and eat with a good slice
of bread. There were holes bored in
the top of every cheese on exhibit so
you could see what the cheese was,
and there were none of those old yell
low things that slice laid in the sun
will curl up like the sole of an old
shoe and tastes about as good. No,
sir. they were the real old genuine
cheese made of cows milk and here
were all of the implements to make
the cheese with.
The next place we visited was the
chicken house. As we came to the en-
we saw incubators with eggs
in them being hatched, while by the
side of the incubator, stood the brood
er with hundreds of little chickens,
and such lively little things, when the
would throw in a handful of
ground wheat, what scrambling! 1t
was fln to stand and look at themi AS
[ stood I heard noise. l thought it
was band playing or hand organ.
| looked to see it. Iasked my friend
where that band was that l heard. He |
said. .'that's the roosters growing in |
side" o, my, thought it was band
playing when several hundred roosters
were all growing! Some big Shang-
hai, some Plymouth Rocks, some
Brahmas and hundreds of those Ban
tas, the noisiest little things and all
growing at once. One that can not
hear very we'll would very easily mis-
take the noise for brass band at a
distance. But l could not but laugh
to think | thought roosters Growing
was a band. The idea! We saw such
a vast variety and such an assortment
as | don't think could be gotten to-
gether if you were to rake the world
with fine-toothed combs. I. 2. K.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.