Black Gold, Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 1975 Page: 14
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What were some of the restrictions your parents made on courting?
Cary:- Did that mean for me to stay at home and not
be out late at night, you see. She would always tell us to
get back before sundown. Don't let the sun catch you out
there, Son.
Mattie: Now, Mama would tell me, if a boy comes, you
and the boy would be sitting right here and she'd be sitting
over there. She said, "Hands off and cut it out."
What was the average age a couple got married?
Cary: About 20 or 21.
How did the couple get started?
Cary: Any way we could get started, we'd get started
If I went, like it was a girl over there we would play to-
gether. We would court; that's what we called courting when
we was out there playing. We would play croquet and all
that sort of games. Croquet was when you take a little ball
and knock it in a little hoop like that and that's what we
called playing croquet. And the girls would love that game.
You'd get in that game with them and you could be courting.
Mattie: Well, I was kind of shy on that. The boys would
come to see me, but we wouldn't go around. We had to stay
pretty close in.
What was the price of food?
Cary: Food, oh you could get sugar, a 10 pound bag of
sugar for 50 and all like that. Now, 5 pound, today cost
you $2.72, but you could get it then for 50 and like that.
Groceries were cheap, then. I remember a time when these
children was growing up here then, and there was another boy
here named Willie, me and his mother would pick cotton for
35 a hundred, and we would walk for miles to town down here
which was about 34 or 4 miles and we could tote it, we would
make 3 and more a day, me and her together now. We would
buy that in groceries, and it was all we could do to tote
that home at night.
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Panola College. Dept. of Communications. Black Gold, Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 1975, periodical, 1975; Carthage, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth151412/m1/16/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Panola College.