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Historica Pix of early sod house with windmill

Home Sweet home.

You would think the women would have been slimmer with all the hard labour they had to do.
 
Many of the women of that time were large. Maybe the small ones couldn't survive that kind of life. I see that is a Solomon Butcher picture taken in Custer county, Nebraska in 1886.
 
Today I was reminded how difficult cutting sod must have been. Our daughter wanted a clump of tall grasses so I dug up some from our place to take on Thanksgiving. What a dense almost impenatrable root system they have! No wonder the women were heavy duty back then.
 
There's no way I would survive that era....but then again if I didn't know any better, I probably would of done it.
I read somewhere long ago, that it was a good thing to have a plump wife, because it meant that the husband was a good provider. If the wife was skinny, usally meant they were poor. Don't know if that's true or not, but sure an interesting concept.
 
Jassy said:
There's no way I would survive that era....but then again if I didn't know any better, I probably would of done it.
I read somewhere long ago, that it was a good thing to have a plump wife, because it meant that the husband was a good provider. If the wife was skinny, usally meant they were poor. Don't know if that's true or not, but sure an interesting concept.
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We've been told that also which is why the painters in bygone eras painted plump women.
 
Bward said:
Home Sweet home.

You would think the women would have been slimmer with all the hard labour they had to do.
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Did all the ranch women notice: nobody commented on how heavy the old guy is in the same picture! :? Double standard. Double standard! :mad: :mad:
 

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