James Laird - Christmas Celebrations in the 1930s - Page 3

One lady did the Clara Cluck sound for the chicken of that name in cartoons. She did other sounds too but that one really sticks in my mind as she could cluck like a hen who had just laid the golden egg. We even had a dance studio from Westwood come to teach us older boys how to ballroom dance. I think the main reason the teacher picked us was she had mostly girl students and needed partners for her girls and we were captive males with no place to go with an available dance floor, a piano and phonograph.

One of the ladies who used to visit fairly often when we first came to the home passed away when we had been there about four years, and I was asked to help carry her casket along with a couple of other boys. This was my first funeral and it was held at Forest Lawn in the Wee Bo Kirk Chapel (I think that was what it was called). It was all very interesting and the chapel was very pretty, but I did not care to do any more. I did do two more later.