Sewing clothes for her family on the old Singer treadle machine cooking meals and baking bread planting and tending a vegetable garden milking the goats and scrubbing soiled clothes on a washboard.

• （用老式的“胜家”缝纫机为一家人缝缝补补；要做饭、烤面包；要照料菜园；要挤羊奶；还要在洗衣板上搓洗脏衣服。）