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Page 17 text:
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In the county of Habersham there was one small, one-room schoolhou.se. The site now has become the vineyard of Miss Lillian McKee. The school year consists of a six-week session in the summer between cultivation and harvest, and from two to three months in the winter, dependent on the dis- position of the weather. School books were not furnished. Compositions were accomplished on slates, which, of course, were furnished by the parents. The peculiarities of the medium furnished one form of childish delight. You could hold the slate pencil per- pendicular, press down hard and draw it across the slate. The resulting blood-curdling screech was a delight to the pupil, but somewhat dis- concerting to the instructor. Cleaning of the slate was accomplished with judiciously applied sa- liva, rubbed dry with elbow. This method was denied me. My parents furnished a nondescript rag and the injunction, No spitting. Sometimes the rag got all the way to school with me. 13
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The Demorest Bath Tub Works in 1890 occupied a large building, 30 ' x 100 ' and two stories high. It was about two hundred feet east of the railroad track. Very few houses in the nineties were equipped with bathrooms. Accordingly the factory advertised folding bath tubs that would not disfigure a handsome parlor, or any other room in the house. Regular bath tubs were also furnished. They were made of wood and lined with galvanized tin. One end was perperdicular, the other sloped. Ends, sides and bottom were soldered together. Sometimes, wheu occupied by a 200-pound man, the tub would spring a leak. One man, drawing lumber for the Bathtub Works stood on the unloading platform rumi- natively engaged with his quid of chewing tobacco, spitting first out of one corner of his mouth, then the other, said, It will go bust. Another of his companions asked the reason for the dire prophecy. Well, was t he reply, In the summer everybody goes to the lake, and in the winter it ' s too cold to take a bath. m
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