19th+century+herky+f09

19 century house work/chores

"We attended school until we reached an age when our services were needed in housework or on the farm." http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=987
 * "Kids only went to school until they were old enough to help around at home"**


 * "Kids had to do housework before thery could play"**

"Beside our usual chores night and morning, on these Saturdays we must accomplish a portion of work before we could play, shelling so many bushels of corn or cutting, splitting or carrying in to the house an allotted quantity of wood in the winter, hoeing an allotted portion of the garden or other similar work in the summer." http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=987


 * "Almost all of the chores included animals"**

"feeding the animals, looking for eggs, and shoveling manure" http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=652


 * "kids satred to have chores at the ages of 6 and 7"**

"They began to work from the ages of six or seven and took on increasingly responsible chores as they got older"

http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=2037


 * people back then had a lot of chores just like we do now.**