Here it is September. With the advent of fall also comes the cough, cold and flu season.
When I was a little girl, there was no such thing as going to the store and buying vitamins. And if there was, we didn't have the money to afford it.
At school, they would line us up and give each child a teaspoon full of cod liver oil. I had to take jam with it or I couldn't swallow it.
They (I'm not sure who they are) were also concerned that the coal miners couldn't afford to buy fruit for their children. They were afraid that we would come down with rickets, so the school would give us tomatoes. I soon grew to dislike the taste of tomatoes....but I ate them.
I guess it all must of worked. We all grew up...and we were labled the world's greatest generation.
Hi, Alison's grandma!
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