Phoebe Mitchell Day Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Phoebe Mitchell Day 27
A. Yes, yes.
Q, And you had to entertain them smetwes?
A. Oh yes, Tfd always have big meals and everything. I always like to
cwk and 1 al.wafrs, . ... SmetSnes I had turkey for thm and dress-
and one thing and another, So T enjoy-that's what I enjoyed do-. Wnt
3: told tbem, I: saLd, "S)onft call on me to sub," and they didn't. Be-
cause I felt like Itd have to entertain sometime, and I was just through
wlth cards,
Q. Now, did you conthus to work in the beauty shop after you and Mr.
Day came back Dan Oregon.
A. Yes,
Q. So you worked in your shop and he worked In his.
A, 1111 show you. I had this-4er we got back fYm Po&land, we had
the back porch enlarged, and I had a bathman made on one side a d my
shop on the other,. I worked Fn that mom right there. I can show you
the pictures here. And so that he wouldn't have to go upstairs, be
cause he was crippled-he had this stroke, see-I sold my dining room
table and chairs and brought the bed down here to that room. Mmy a
night before he passed, oh, my, I'd sit on the side of the bed with hii-n
and he'd say, "Momry, I sure appreciate you sitting up here with me."
I'd say, tWell, what do you think?'' See, that's what I'm supposed to
do. Itd sit there on the side untis herd get easy, puUk the cover
over off the bed and twn hh+couldntt th himself good, you know-
and tlxmgh the night Itd get up.