Interview with Lois Beville Cone 43
March 30, 1995


C: It did not have a trunk that I remember, but it had to didn't it? Well, where did we keep the
 Isinglass that we needed when it rained that we would put up? The curtains, I don't know if
 we kept them under the seat or just where. I do not remember having a trunk.

0: Did you have special clothing that you wore since it was all open and you got a lot of wind
 and everything?

C: No.

0: Just your regular clothing?

C: Yes.

0: Did you usually wear hats when you were going out? C: No, I did not. My mother did, though. 0: Growing up, did you always wear dresses or did you sometimes wear long pants? C: Oh, never, never. But I can remember the long stockings we had to wear in the winter time,
 and you had to wear long underwear, and it was awful trying to get them up and they were
 buttoned to the waistband. Didn't you ever have to wear those?

0: No. How did you heat your home when you were living on Arredondo? C: We had a big heater stove in the living room and then a fire place in the parlor, and then
 upstairs in the dressing room, we had a little, what they called a hot stove, you could put newspaper. It give out a lot of heat. We did not have fire places in bedrooms and certainly
 on the sleeping porch we had nothing, you know. 0: Must have been awfully cold sometimes. C: It was, but in the wintertime, mother put feather beds on every bed, and you would just sink
 down into that feather mattress, and get so warm and toasty. 0: Where did she keep her feather mattresses when it was not. C: Well, downstairs, the sleeping porch was over a screened back porch and a great big room
 and that was our storage. If we had an attic, it was not an attic you would go up in, and that
 is were we would store things, and that is where she kept them.


0: Did she make her feather beds, her feather mattresses?

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