Life+in+1900s+EXAMPLE+1+Jeffa09

= Topic... __An Average (Summer) Day__ =

//__**Example 1-**__// People woke and almost immediatley went to go milk the family cows, if they had any.

In those summer days, when my recollection first opens, mother and Aunt Sarah rose in the early dawn, and, taking the well-scoured wooden pails from the bench by the back door, repaired to the cow yard behind the barn. We owned six cows; my grandmother four. Having milked the ten cows, the milk was strained, the fires built, and breakfast prepared.- http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=74


 * __//Example 2-//__** Then breakfast was prepared with the milk, it was eaten, and then it was time to get ready for dinner.

During breakfast the milk for the cheese was warming over the fire, in the large brass kettle…The curd having been broken into the basket, the dishes were washed, and unless there was washing or other extra work, the house was righted. By the time this was done the curd* was ready for the [cheese] press. Next came preparations for dinner, which was on the table punctually at twelve o’clock. - http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=74

__//**Example 3-**//__ Women spent a lot of free time sewing or knitting.

In the sultry August afternoons mother and Aunt Sarah usually took their sewing to the cool back room. - http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=74


 * __//Example 4-//__** When the men came in from from the fields, every one had tea, then chores were completed and things were prepared for the - next day.

At five o’clock the men came from the field, and tea was served. The tea things washed, the vegetables were gathered for the morrow, the linen taken in, and other chores done. - http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=74


 * __//Conclusion-//__** I can conclude that there was a sort of pattern to everyday life for everyone to complete. There were things done everyday, just like today, so that life would run smoothly. There were certain things girls and women did, while boys and men did different things. Today, this is also true, when girls don't play football, and guys typically don't go shopping for clothes all the time, etc.