Two personal favorites.\u00a0 Both were written awhile ago by pioneering women who had a good idea of what today’s men are like.\u00a0 Nice to know through our share experiences somethings just don’t change.<\/p>\n
From Westering Women<\/em> \u2013<\/p>\n One woman\u2019s \u201creceet\u201d for washing clothes: From Leaning into the Wind<\/em> \u2013<\/p>\n My Man Isn\u2019t by Gloria Van Dyke<\/p>\n You\u2019ve heard the phrase \u201cself-sufficient\u201d \u2013 In the wintertime and he\u2019s a shoveling snow, If the hourse or barn needs a hammer or nail,
\n1.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0bild fire in back yard to het kettle of rain water.
\n2.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0set tubs so smoke won\u2019t blow in eyes if wind is peart.
\n3.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0shave 1 hole cake lie sope in bilin water
\n4.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0sort things. make 3 piles.\u00a0 1 pile white, 1 pile cullord, 1 pile work briches and rags.
\n5.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0stur flour in cold water to smooth then thin down with bilin water [for starch}
\n6.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0rub dirty spots on board.\u00a0 scrub hard.\u00a0 then bile.\u00a0 rub cullard but don\u2019t bile just rench and starch.
\n7.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0take white things out of kettle with broom stick handel then rench, blew and starch
\n8.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0pore rench water in flower bed.
\n9.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0scrub porch with hot sopy water.
\n10.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0turn tubs upside down.
\n11.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0go put on a cleen dress, smooth hair with side combs, brew cup of tee, set and rest and rock a spell and count blessings.<\/p>\n
\nWell, if you as me, my man isn\u2019t.
\nLike when it\u2019s time to milk the cows
\nHe comes and says, \u201cCon you help me now?\u201d
\nThe times he couldn\u2019t fix a bit to eat
\nOr wipe his dirty, muddy feet.<\/p>\n
\nHe says, \u201cCan you finish?\u00a0 I froze my toe.\u201d
\nHe can\u2019t put a paper back in the rack.
\nClean the drill or put grain in a sack.
\nAnd chase a pig if it\u2019s loose in the yard \u2013
\nHeavens no, you\u2019d think him lame or standing guard.<\/p>\n
\nYou suddenly see him become weak and frail.
\nWhen it comes to looking for socks or clothes,
\nHe couldn\u2019t find them if they hung on his nore.
\nYou\u2019ve heard the phrase \u201cself-sufficient\u201d \u2013
\nWell, if you ask me, my man isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n