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"Favorite
Children" Treasures
Parents or grandparents sometimes have treasures that are perplexing to their children. Something that looks like nothing special may indeed be so. It is best to ask older members of the family what they treasure, and to learn the stories behind these seemingly inconsequential objects, while loved ones still remember. Bonnie Watson Jenschke, younger daughter of Juneth and James Watson, has taken the time to do this, and to capture it in prose: The book, Little Women, belonged to Juneth Whitaker Watson, born July 3, 1927, and given to her by her maternal grandparents when she was ten or eleven. Juneth always liked to read (and continues to do so) and was advanced a grade in grammar school because she caught on so quickly. In her early years she thought about going into reporting or becoming a writer, but once married she settled down to being a full-time loving farm wife and mother. She has passed this book down to her granddaughter Jennifer when she was about the same age. This fruitcake tin was used as a lunchbox by James Porter Watson, born November 2, 1924. He carried it to school, which was a three-mile walk from home. His lunch consisted of a homemade biscuit with bacon, ham or sausage, and perhaps an apple or some pinto beans in a small jar. For dessert there were his mother's teacakes. Water came from the pump well in the schoolyard. The holes in the top of the tin are a mystery: it never had a handle, and it was not carried with string. Aside from serving in the Army during World War II, Porter has lived at the home place his entire life. These treasures were photographed in the Junction School near Stonewall, Texas, a one-room schoolhouse (circa 1912) where students in eight grades received their first formal education.
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