hear my father play his tunes mostly by chords. What a delight it was for him to find his youngest daughter at the age of three or four picking out melodies by ear on the piano. Christmas was always a special time to remember. Christmas and other holidays were enjoyed with our cousins, Dora Gibson Grob, Donna Forsgren Heed, and Guinevere Hess Shupe and their families. Many hours were enjoyed when they came to visit. There were not a lot of fancy toys. Good food and happy times spent together seemed to be sufficient. LORIN FARR PARK Because Glenwood Park, later renamed Lorin Farr Park, was close to our home, our parents would take us there for a picnic occasionally. Shirley and Richard were living with us at the time. There was a merry-go-round, swings, and a concession stand. Our childhood friend, Lottie, would accompany us. We older ones could watch the young ones, Shirley and Richard, which was a great help to Mother. When many relatives came from California or elsewhere to visit, we would go to Lagoon by way of the Bamberger Railroad. At Lagoon there were train rides with a little engine that would pull the people around a lake. Many times we would just sit in front of the fun house and watch the people inside. HOUSEHOLD CHORES Typical as it was with our neighbors and relatives, Monday (in our youth) was wash day for our laundry. Our Mother would put the laundry tub full of water on top of the range to heat over night in order to do the wash in the morning. We used our own homemade soap. The soap was sliced in pieces to be added to the water. Then the clothes were put in the hot water and washed by hand on a washboard. After rinsing the clothes, they would be hung out to dry. This worked nicely in the summertime, but many times in the winter, the clothes would freeze on the line and would need the daylight to dry them. There was one good benefit about the freezing action on the clothes--it helped to bleach them! Little does the present generation know and realize the difficult chores of this former period of time. There were no automatic washing machines nor dryers in our youth. Later on, washing machines could be purchased, but they would have to be constantly turned by a handle to get the clothes cleaned. Clothes were run through a ringer which was operated by hand. I recall that there were no vacuums for the rugs, so we would have to sweep them with a broom. Periodically, the rugs would be moved onto the clothesline where they would be beaten by a rug beater which helped to release the dirt and grime. Welcome was the time when hand-pushed dusters helped to keep the rugs clean. What a thrill it was to eventually have an