***we got iodine or mercurochrome (sp?) for scrapes.***
Remember Isodine?
“One day Billy got a bad scratch (on his face) so his mother put isodine on it and said...”We’ll make you up like a REAL INDIAN!”
Oh so politically Incorrect!
Oh yes before PC took over- sayings like Indian giver, kids acting like, or looking like wild Indians.
Can you imagine if there were time machines, people from the past would not believe!!! It would be fun to send some kids from today back to see what it was like though- especially how hard kids worked at chores...we had to do hard work, but were allowed to play hard too. We rode horses, got broomsticks and played jousting- tried hard to knock each other off horses. We also had rock fights, throwing rocks at each other. Now kids get in trouble for even tossing a rock- even if they are not tossing it at anything or anyone.
Kids used to give each other “Indian burns” — grabbing someone’s forearm with two hands and twisting each in the opposite direction. Hurt like hell and left an angry red “burn” that lasted for hours.