Remembering war time etiquette

Back to the war years, we quickly shifted from playing cowboys and Indians to playing Americans vs. Germans or Japs. Many of our schoolmates had close relatives in different branches of the armed services, and we were vitally interested in any scrap of information that was available.

Of course, so much was secret and not available to the Home Front. There was an extremely talented “reader” or “seer” in the Millerville Community in Clay County by the name of Mrs. Teel. She is no longer living, but a good many of her relatives are. My understanding is that Mrs. Teel met her clients at her kitchen table and read the coffee grounds in her cup. She was exceptionally gifted in locating lost objects and animals. A cousin of mine was quite sure that Mrs. Teel located a lost diamond ring.