Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-04-06
Annles for PlaythinCs.

When l was Il little girl oranges and
lemons were great Injuries in the little
town where | lived; | hardly ever had
an orange unless | was i'll. | remember
having some nice ones when | had the
measles. and my little brother and sister
standing beside my bed and wishing that
they had the measles too, SO that they
could have nice things like Betsey.
We never had iced lemonade whenever
we wished it on hot summer days, as
people do now; ice was luxury, too,
and we very seldom saw any except IN
the winter.
But when | was little girl we had
many kinds of apples on our place, and
could eat just as many as | wanted every
day all winter and there were some that
got ripe very early in the autumn, too. /
can't think of all the names now: but
some that were very big were called
pound pippins. because they weighed Il
pound apiece; and there were some others
that We're called pound sweets" and we
had some funny Timber apples that we
called balls of yarn and some long
pointed, dark red ones that we called
pig noses"
We children used to do a great many
things with apples We liked to tie them
them before the open fire to roast; we
kept them tWrllng round and round, and
pretty soon they were all soft and juicy,
and how nice they did smell and taste
too.
Sometimes we took small apples and
stuck them very full of cloves and they
made nice, spicy smelling balls to put in
bureau drawers, but they were not good
to eat. You see, we did not have as
many playthings as children have now,
so we made the most we could of what
ever we did have that we could play
with.
We sewed the seeds edgewise on cards
for mice, making the tails and ears Of
fine brown cotton; sometimes we put on
the card tiny little bag stuffed with
sawdust to look like meal and had the
apple-seed mice gathered around it and
some of them going up on the bag.
Now and then before eating an apple
we used to wish and then guess the
number of seeds and the one who
guessed exactly we used to say would
get the wish. We strung apple seeds by
the small ends with needle and thread.
and made fine necklaces for our dolls
at least my sister and | did, but my
brother called that girls play" but he
used to play some counting games with
us. with the seeds.
| remember something more we did
with the apples that pleased my sister
and myself very much. On nice bright
day in the fall my mother and aunt used
to take pans and sharp knives and 90
down to the big orchard. 1t was so
pleasant there under the frees. We
helped gather a lot of apples and then
were given large needles threaded with
long, strong thread or Irvine and as my
mother and aunt pared and sliced the
apples we would string them. We
thought it great fun and would run races
with each other to see which would get
her string full first.
These strings of apples were hung up
on the side of the house in the hot sun
every day till perfectly dry. and then
they were carefully put away to use the
next spring and early summer time be-
fore apples were ripe again. though some
We're used in the winter. too.
We liked dried-apple pies with rais;nS
in them, and dried-apple sauce, but best
Of all we liked little fried turnover pies
with dried apple in them When these
We're being fried we hung about the
kitchen until mother gave us one piping
hot, with bit of cheese, for lunch
Fried pies were generally made on very
cold days in the winter. and we would
run about rhe cold. snowy yard keeping
quite warm eating our hot pies. so sweet
and brown. so nice with Il little flavor Of
Eurmeg. or of pounded cinnamon. or of
grated lemon peel-EliZabeth Robinson
in Little Folks