Las Sabinas, Volume 4, Number 1, July 1978 Page: 35
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We were not allowed to cut our hair, and could not wear rouge.
And pants were not allowed. Mama would say 'suppose somebody
comes and sees you?' We never went anywhere unless we had a
chaperone - somebody she could trust to watch us.
Rain or shine we went to church. The church was in Pavele
about 10 miles from where we lived and we usually went in the
sulky."
Gladys laughed. "We had a horse once that didn't want to
go. He would stop and sometimes turn around no matter how much
we would whip him. Once a cousin was with us and he said 'I'm
going to break him!' and we all got down from the sulky. He
took a big stickand give him such a rap he fell down like he
was dead. But when he got up he was a different horse. He went
right straight where he was headed and never gave us anymore
trouble."
Gladys remembers some very hard times as a youngster with
food sometimes scarce. "For breakfast we would have milk and
cush-cush (a mixture of corn meal cooked without grease) and go
to the fields with our hoes while the dew was so heavy our clothes
would be wringing wet.
After a while the sun would come out and it would get so
hot that sometimes I would throw up in the cotton rows. We hoed
the cotton and we picked it. I've picked many a sack of cotton."
Sugar cane was also grown on the farm and at least a barrel
of syrup made for the family's use. Like most other children,
Gladys was fond of sweets and sometimes her mother would allow
the making of candy from the cane syrup.35.
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Orange County Historical Society (Tex.). Las Sabinas, Volume 4, Number 1, July 1978, periodical, January 1978; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth255383/m1/43/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Orange County Historical Society.