Sherri,
When I was a wee lad in Washington State, I had a problem with warts!
There were two remidies, one was to take red beans, rub them on the warts and then drop them down the well.
The second one was to steal your mothers dishcloth, rub the warts with it and then bury the dishcloth.
Did it work? The warts went away!
Speaking of the alarm clock, about this period of time they began a program where the lumberjacks were required to be in the woods and ready to go to work at daybreak. (This was the precousor to daylight saving time)
My dad had a problem waking up so he took the windup alarm clock and put a string on it, which was attatched to a dishpan balanced on the back of a chair.
You never heard such a clatter when the pan hit the floor!
I had a brother-in-law (Joe) that had a terrible time waking up of a morning and my dad solved the problem for him.
Dad took a car battery, connected a car horn to it, then made a contact plate that was attatched to a wind up alarm clock with a string that would pull the arm across the terminals.
This woke Joe and the whole neighborhood up.
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