Phoebe Mitchell Day Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Phoebe Nitchell Day 25
had raw, you lo?ow, So I wax very satisfled arad happy because I was
here vdthmy sister, She's the same as a mother to us younger brothers
One thing about my mother, she raised her children to always rdnd the
older children. She never allowed us to fight or fuss amongst oumelves,
And I r e e r once two brothers got into it, fighting caning home
frcm school-Ruby and Clyde. And they cmne in telling Mother all
that, you know, and everythlrg, Arid rny mother went out and skinned
some leaves off a (laughs) , . . and put them together in three
bunches, She had one and they each had one. She says, "Now, if you
want to fight, you whip each othermW And when one would hit the other
a little bit too hard, then she'd hit Wm. So, if they ever fought at
school, Mama never he& it. She broke that up right away.
Another thing, we had a worderf'ul principal of our school, Mr. McKinney.
He was so wonderf'ul and helped the poor. had several children.
He bought my brother a palr of shoes once. Bought hhi a pair of shoes.
And Me was always told to be obedient to our teachers and principal, see.
We got along fine. And it's the way that Mother raised us; it was the
way that she raised us, yes.
Q, All right. Now, do you belong to .my organ3rzatlon?
A, No, no. I never joined the beauticians1 organization because I had
more work than I could do. It meant that I had to be going to meting
ad things like that, and I just never joined them for that reason.
I'll tell you I did-I was always crazy about bridge, and I played