teachers' rules

My class went on a field trip to an old-fashioned schoolhouse.  In the schoolroom were posted the rules common for teachers in the early twentieth century.  These come from a 1915 teachers' magazine.

Among them:

1. You will not marry during the term of your contract.
2. You are not to keep company with men.
3. You must be home between the hours of 8 P.M. and 6 A.M. unless attending a school function.
4. You may not loiter downtown at any of the ice cream parlors.
5. You may not travel beyond the city limits unless you have the permission of the chairman of the board.
6. You may not ride in a carriage or automobile with any man unless he is your father or brother.
7. You may not dress in bright colors.
8. You may not smoke cigarettes.
9. You may under no circumstances dye your hair.
10. Your dresses must not be any shorter than two inches above the ankle.
11. You must wear at least two petticoats.
12.  To keep the schoolroom neat and clean you must sweep the floor at least once a day, scrub the floor at least once a week with hot soapy water, and clean the blackboard.

Oh, for the good old days.

lemon-and-egg

Soup Week #3.  Lemon and Egg Soup, technically speaking, called Avgolemono.

Once again, you might not think that lemon and eggs are the things to throw with in garlic and parsley. Once again...wrong!  It was soup-er good.  Ha. Ha.  (I have fallen into an irrepressible habit of making bad puns, and laughing at them.)

before sunrise

soup week #2

From the Mediterranean cookbook:  "Garlic Soup With Poached Eggs."  I was skeptical, but it wasn't my turn to pick.  (Garlic soup in itself sounds...meh.  But with poached eggs?  Weird.)

It was amazing.  Seriously.  I think the pot had about three whole heads of garlic in it.  (Did you know that garlic is soporific?  We slept well that night.)

I would make this for company.  Minus the poached eggs, maybe.  That might be a bit much for some folk to swallow.

first snow day

Minnesota, friend, I underestimated you.

A student at the lunch table:

"Do Britain people have their own little language or do they speak English?"