Originally Posted by Yooper32

Oh, yes, oh yes! Every spring, the lace curtains had to be carefully laundered and then affixed onto the needles of the stretcher and left until dry. You could put multiple layers on at one time too. And the little children are not to touch the precious curtains or the stretcher. If the little girl has been very ill and is left home on Sunday morning with Daddy while the rest of the family goes to church, she might pull at the rehung curtains so as to look outside. The Daddy would tell her "leave them alone, do not touch the curtains.." If the little girl doesn't listen, the Daddy gets terribly angry and shuts the little girl in a closet. The closet is very dark and the door is oak and little hands find a brass curtain rod and she commences to beat on the door with the brass rod. The Daddy hurries to the closet, opens the door and sees the little girl, blue in the face and frothing at the mouth. To this day, the little girl still cannot stand to be confined in any way. If the weather is anywhere near nice, the front door is open, when nobody is around, the bathroom door stays open....get the picture? The Daddy appologized for many years, even until his death. You see, Momma had just rehung those lace curtains after the washing and starching and stretching and the Daddy knew the Mommy would be angry if they were messed or mangled. The little girl is 80 now.