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Note: ople column, November 15, 1904, issue of Farm and Home, a farm paper published in Springfield, Mass., by Phelps Publishing Co.
I am 13 yrs old, the oldest of 7 children, and have to help with the work a good deal. When I get up in the morning I throw back the bed clothes, to let them air, then go down stairs and with my sister go out to the barn and milk three cows and feed the horses. We have to do the chores, as we have no one else to do them, for our papa is an angel now. When we come in mamma and Bessie (aged 5) have breakfast ready. After breakfast we feed 6 pigs and 2 calves and when we get that done we wash the dishes and skim and strain the milk. Then I get the little ones, Ruby, Georgie and Bessie, ready for school. Mamma isn't very well, so I can't go to school much. I am in the 6th grade. It is about 9 o'clock when we get the work all done up, and then mamma sews and I get things ready for dinner. I don't have much time to play. We take F & H and we think it a very good paper.--[Hazel Johnson, Michigan] Sent courtesy of Wilene Smith.
Note: The following letter from Hazel Johnson was published in the Our Young Pe
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