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Show ; :hff..rs . Laura S . Hadfield Page 3 it , he was amazed to hear of such ' barbarious treatment ' as he called it . He told. the folks around there that back east they didn't punish children for displaying talent , but encouraged it . He talked quite freely about it to a neighbor who happened to be one of the school trustees. It was consequently taken up in the next meeting of the school board, and the teacher was told to see to it that the children stopped tantalizing me . After that they didn't whip children for drawing pictures • . We had nany shows and dances when I was young . We also had candy pulls and peach cuttings . I used to wonder if the folks back east ever ate those peaches that we dried . My mother used to preserve frui t by putting it in cans, putting a lid on , and then sealing it witp. sealing wax, but mostly we just dried the fruit. Anyway we didn't have much sugar, we had to use molasses for most of our sweets. ie sold the dried peaches, and that was about all the money we ever got in t welve months . if we got a pound or t wo of s,ugar in a year we were lucky. I remember my mother saving a pound of sugar so she would have something nice to eat when her baby was born. Now even though there are only my son and I at home, I never think of buying sugar in anything but 100 pound sacks. I have never been on any of the islands of Great Salt Lake , but I have been on the ' Lady of the Lake,' an excursion boat that took people all around the islands. We went around .Antelope, (Church Island) , but didn't stop . These boats were not practical because of the strong gales tbat blew over the l ake, and the s alt in the lake corroded them until they would sink . I :remember when they put the buffalo on the island , but I don't know how they got them over there . I know that on Church Island they also raised some fine Borses and grazed sheep . The Church owned the island when it was called Church Island and they hired Uncle Lot Smith to catch the torses and bring them in . No snow ever falls on the islands and animals can graze the year around . |
