sixty-years-old

Updated: May 1, 2025

"She doesn't know how to forecast her work." "She doesn't know how to forelay." "Nancy's gittin' past carryin' her mind inter her work. Wal, I remember when I begun to git past carryin' my mind inter my work," said an old woman of ninety, speaking of her sixty-years-old daughter. The old couplet, "Man works from rise till set of sun, But woman's work is never done," tells the truth.

Abby Morton Diaz - A Domestic Problem : Work and Culture in the Household