19-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Thursday, December 24, 1914: <<no entry>>
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
Even farm magazines got into the Christmas spirit a hundred years ago. Since Grandma didn’t write anything specific for today, I thought you might enjoy this old Kimball’s Dairy Farmer cover.
19-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Saturday, December 19, 1914: <<no entry>>
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
Since Grandma again didn’t write anything a hundred years ago today, I’ll continue telling you how to create a “Christmassy” table. In addition to a centerpiece, Christmas place cards need to be made.
In case you aren’t a creative person, the December, 1914 issue of Ladies Home Journal included twelve “little people and little rimes” that could be cut out and glued onto tag board to make the place cards.
What fun children making the cards must have had trying to decide who got which rime!
Hmm. . .who should get this one?
. . . and, who is the perfect person for this one?
19-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Friday, December 18, 1914: <<no entry>>
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
Since Grandma didn’t write anything a hundred years ago today, I thought that you might enjoy these hundred-year old suggestions for how to create a “Christmassy” table.
It is the little extra touch that makes a table festive in appearance.
The table itself must be Christmassy in its setting and decorations, however simple, and once our eyes have taken it all in we settle down to the enjoyment of turkey and all the “fixins.”
