16-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Sunday, November 26, 1911: Went to Sunday School this morning. Carrie and I went for a walk this afternoon, which was the around about way to Watsontown and back. We went up to McEwensville this evening to attend the Thanks offering.
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
It sounds like Grandma and her friend Carrie did a lot of walking a hundred years ago today. I wonder if they wore crocheted caps. The November, 1911 issue of Ladies Home Journal had lots of great cap pictures.
I did a lot of walking back in the 1950’s through the early 1970’s when we moved from to Detroit to places without sidewalks. I miss walking with the object of going somewhere as opposed to walking for exercise. I think I need a beehive cap with a cretonne border.
I agree, it’s much more fun to walk when I’m going somewhere than just for exercise. I think I need a beehive cap with a cretonne border, too.