American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-08-28
WHERE ARE THE CLEANERS7
CBv Mrs. Ella Kohlhepp.)

CIV Mrs. Ella
Harvest time has come again and
the crops in many places are small.
Yet with all our nations call to a V
many thousand of bushels of wheat
will 20 back to mother earth un-
gathered.
Have the years OF prosperity raised
us above our Bible sisters. our col
onial sisters, our pioneer sisters OF
the west?
NV mother who is now eighty-nine
was raised by her grandmother VINO
lived i'm the days of the revolution.
She was taught all the thrift of the
colonial times and in turn mother
taught them TO her children who came
10 her in the early days of the west
when everything that was raised must
be saved i'm order that all be supplied.
The grain was cradeled by hand n
then tied i'm bundles with some of the
straw knotted by expert hands. The
bundles we're placed in piles. then
hauled to the barn-yard and stacked
for the t|hreshing which was often done
by hand.
As soon as the grain was placed in
piles the cleaners commenced their
work.
The daughters of the governor, as
we'll as the daughters of the cobbler,
blacksmith and farmer went to the
fields to CLEAN the wheat that was left
By the harvesters. Generally the
heads were all placed carefully one
way. then tied in neat bundles, but
often the women would gather hand
fulls of heads. twist them from the
40 M 4l.s. 1nrpa anrnng
Early in the mornings and late IN
the evenings the fields were dotted
with the cleaners who generally rest
ed during the heat OF the day. How
delicious was our bowl of bread and
milk when we returned with mother
after the cleaning hours were over.
The call to save has taken me again
to the fields TO see II u wonderful
harvest machines were leaving any
thing to be cleaned. and oh! I thought.
II such a harvest had been before Ruth
and Naomi. Boaz would never have
had to order his men to leave more
behind, that they might have plenty
to CLEAN.
| made up my mind l would CLEAN
at least enough TO make one busheI
OF wheat. Il not TO send TO the Red
Cross. to give to the poor in our coun.
try for it Is a fact that before the
war commenced there were little chill.
dren in every city and almost every
town going to school hungry. The
high prices are bound to increase the
poverty in M midst.
| told my little one about how We
used to CLEAN and they became anxious
To see how It vas done. So we wen
TO the fields two hours in the morning
and two in the evening and filled GU
bags with golden heads of wheat
They really enjoyed II for | told then
Bible stories Of the cleaners and SAM
them what l could remember of tn
old song.
Her Little Blue Apron to FILL"
Before the bright u rises over tn
hill.
2 Poor Mary in the corn field is seen
Hard at work. hard at work all the da.
| Her little blue apron to ill.
Why don't YOU grow weary and sit i
the shade.
p In the shade as the others have done
r How could I grow weary and sit i
the shade
e when dear mother at home lies sic
i'm her bed,
t And my poor little brothers are cryin
J. for bread.
r So Mary worked on with "A win, he
n little blue apron TO fin.
sing il again, mother the childre
e cried and / sang il again and agai
r at their request.
e Call us early in the morning so "
can be cleaning before the sun rise