Sugar Grove
By Paula Mitchell
That marvelous handkerchief. When children were little, every mother carried a handkerchief up her sleeve or in the front of her dress. Mom invented uses for her handkerchief that would have astonished Thomas Edison.
How would a five-year-old child get their Sunday School money safely to church? The money would be carefully wrapped in the corner of the handkerchief and knots tide on both sides.
When children would whine and say that there was nothing to do, mom would whip out her handkerchief and say, “Here, go play Drop the Handkerchief or Blind Man’s Bluff.”
When a scraped knee would ooze blood, and band-aids were not available, mom would pull out the handkerchief and wrap it around the knee. Tears were often wiped away with the handkerchief.
Before medicated wipes, the handkerchief was used to wipe sticky icing from a birthday cake that remained on the chin. Sometimes mom would spit on the handkerchief and rub the face and chin harder.
Anyone who has not had a spit bath from mom’s handkerchief has missed the process that bonds a child with her/his mother.
Handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket.
Here are some suggestions for daily living:
- Visit a library.
- Go for a brisk morning walk.
- Try a new ice cream flavor.
- Make lemonade with real lemons.
- Make homemade bread.
Quotes for the week are as follows:
“Good work is good work, wherever it’s done.” — Parker Stevenson
“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog around the house so that someone is happy to see you.” — Nora Ephron
“I’m simply not panicking as my laugh lines grow deeper. Who wants a face with no history, no sense of humor?” — Cate Blanchett
“If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.” — Natasha Richardson
“I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.” — Bruce Hoover
This week’s clickety-clacks for the chin waggers are as follows:
- In Great Britain and Australia, a shopping cart is called a trolley.
- The colony of New Jersey was founded in 1664. The name was taken from the largest of the English Channel Islands, Jersey.
- Among the 100,000 public libraries in the United States is the Library of Congress, the world’s largest which boasts around 168 million items.
- In 1652, New Amsterdam (now New York City) imposed the first speed limit.
- The Mackinac Bridge, aka “The Mighty Mac” is five miles in length and takes five to seven minutes to cross.
November birthdays include the following: Jack Bowers, second; Tammy Propst, Judy Waggy, Terry Harper, Donna Hoover, Roy Bowers and Ronnie Lambert, third; Robby Fisher and Rachel Rexrode, fourth; Marleta Wimer and Danielle Grogg, eighth; Libby Hoover, ninth; Bill Pennington, 11th; Betty Wilfong, 12th; Bob Grimm, Paul Mallow, Lyle Hartman and Tony Hedrick, 13th; Erma Moats, Bella Eye, Kara Townsend and Deyerle Rexrode, 14th; and Pat Bodkin, 15th.
Concerns are for the following: Bob Adamson, Dyer Anderson, John Ashley, Roger Ashley, Mercedes Aumann, Richard Bennett, “Bo” Boggs, Roy Spencer Bowers, Marie Cole, Stanley Dahmer, Christian Dasher, Phil Downs, Benny Evick, Isaac Eye, Linda Eye, Marie Eye, Mary Eye, Thelma Fleisher, Carl Gant, David Gillespie, Lola Graham, Patsy Green, JC Hammer, Marlene Harman, Adam and Jennifer Harper, Missy Harrison, Marvin Hartman, Steve and Armanda Heavner, Jack and Starr Hedrick, Jim Hiner, Evan Hise, Tim Hively, George Hevener, Edsel and Mary Ann Hogan, Virgil Homan, Jr., the Adalbert Hoover family, Keith Hoover, Myrtle Hoover, Tim L. Hoover, Debbie and Enos Horst, Lisa and Mike Jamison, Jessica Janney, Alice Johnson, Richard Judy, Marsha Keller, Kim Kline, Tracie Knight, Laura Kropp, the Terry Kuykendall family, Melissa Lambert, O’Dell Lambert, Robert Lambert, Rex Landis, Roger and Skip Mallow, Yvonne Marsh, Ed May, Gene and Joan McConnell, Gary McDonald, Neil McLaughlin, Rose Miller, Bruce Minor, Barbara Moats, Gloria Moats, John Morford, Bill Mullenax, Aaron Nelson, Ruth Nelson, Cheryl Paine, the Julia Pennington family, the Marie Pitsenbarger family, the Delores Polaski family, Andy Pond, Janice Propst, Eldon “Butch” Puffenbarger, Alda Propst, Janis Propst, Mike Propst, Sheldon Propst, Tom Rader, Brandon Reel, Jason Rexrode, Linda Fay Rexrode, Dennis Riggleman, Donna Ruddle, Jenny Ruddle, Mary Sawyers, Brittany Shriver, Annie Simmons, Erin Simmons, Eva Simmons, Greg Simmons, Judy Simmons, Nelson Simmons, Robbie Sites, Mike Skiles, the Jeanette Sponaugle family, Tina Stuben, Steve Stump, Linda and Larry Vandevander, Sandra Vandevander, Amy Vaus, Judy Waggy, Sheldon Waggy, Estelle Wagner, Mary Louise Waldschlager, Rene White, Sherry Wilfong, Judy Williams, Ann and Ed Wimer, individuals and families affected by the natural disasters and the people of Ukraine, Israel, and Palestine.
