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Esta serie de historias crónican un tesoro de experiencias tal como han sido pasadas por varias gneraciones f describen el encuentro de desafíos en que lucha para su existencia f mejoramiento. Expedientes en el modo de aplicar los medios convenientes, con sus fuertes valores familiales f con su fe religiosa, demuestra la produndad de la fuerza de nuestros anlecedores al establecerse en el territorio de Coahuila-Tejas. El material ha sido recogido por la Drai Anita Torres Smith através de entrevistas. El proposito de estas historias es el de traer las luchas, los valores, las creencias, y la fuerza del pasado a la nueva generación.
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Había una vez tres huerfanitas de madre. La niña mayor se fué a vivir con sus tíos. Las otras dos se fueron a vivir con su abuelita partemal. Esta es una platica sobre una breve experiencia en la vida de la niñita mayor llamada Tulitas.
Era así. Como el saber leer y escribir era muy importante, la abuelita mandaba a la escuela solamente a la niña mayorsita. Es que como Tulitas tenía la cintura lastimada, a ella no la mandaba a la escuela. Las escuelas en aquellos tiempos no ofrecían servicios de educación especial para niños deshabilitados. Así es que esta niña, que era muy inteligente, no iba a la escuela por la razón de su problema físico.
La niñita tenia muchos primitios,
los cuales se procuraban como hermanitos. Los primitos vivían a la media cuadra de donde vivían la abuelita y las niñas. Todos los primitos también iban a la escuela
nLas caricaturas que salían en el periódico eran todo lo que había en forma de entretenimiento para la niña. ....Esta diversión era la epitomé de la felicidad para ella, ya que con esto se transbordaba un mundo ajeno....”
todos los días. Entre todos ellos había uno mas o menos de la edad de Tulitas. Cuando el niño regresaba
de la escuela, venía a casa de su abuelita. El era su compañero de juegos. Creanloquelosdosjubaban muy bien, pero como a veces sucede, al niño le atraían más los juegos para niños. Además, la mera verdad que la niña lo cansaba con sus pedidos. Fíjense nomas que ella diariamente le pedía a él que le leyera las caricaturas del domingo anterior.
En aquellos tiempos no había la radio. Mucho menos la televisión o los juegos electrónicos. Las caricaturas que salían en el periódico eran todo los que había en forma de entretenimiento para la niña. Para ella era mucho muy importante saber de las travesuras en que se habían metido los hijos (Continúa en Pagina 16)
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Once upon a time, there were three little orphaned girls. The oldest one went to live with her aunt and uncle. The other two went to live with their paternal grandmother. This is a short story relating one of the experiences in the life of Tulitas, the youngest child.
Since reading and writing was very important the grandmother would send the older little girl to school, but not Tulitas because she had a hurt back. The schools of that time did not offer special education services for disabled children. So this little girl, even though she was very intelligent, did not attend school due to her physical problem.
Tulitas had many little cousins. They took care to look after each other just as if they were siblings. These little cousins lived about half a block from their grandmother’s house. All of these cousins also went to school every day. Among all of these little cousins, there was a little boy who was approximately the same age as she was. When he returned from school each day, he would visit his cousin at grandmother’s house. He was her playmate. They played well
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together, but as is generally the case, he was more inclined to play boy’s games. Tulitas tried his patience by continually asking him to read the comic strip from the previous Sunday's paper.
At that time, there were no televisions or electronic games. They did not even have radio. The comic strips in the newspapers were the most popular forms of entertainment for Tulitas. To her, finding out about the ludicrous tricks that the captain ’ s children played on him was one of the most important things on her mind. These children were the characters who played many pranks in the comic strip. The Katzenjammer Kids. Hearing about it was the epitome of merriment for her, because this was an experience that carried her into the world of make believe.
For Tulitas’ little cousin, reading the same strip many times every day was a great nuisance. He got tired of reading to her, so he decided to teach Tulitas to read for herself. The little boy wrote the vowels on a brown paper sack and taught them to Tulitas. Then he explained their sounds. Soon he showed her how to
blend the vowels with the rest of the letters to make syllables. By the next Sunday, this very smart little girl had already learned to read. What joy! It was such a marvelous day for Tulitas that as soon as she obtained a copy of the Sunday paper, Tulitas very proudly showed her little cousin that she could read. At first, he was taken aback because she had learned how to read in just a short week, and then he felt very proud of their accomplishment. Since the grandmother was always very busy, she was not even aware that the little girl could read. Years went by. One day, when her older sister was writing a letter to her boyfriend, Tulitas noticed what her sister was writing. Her sister was telling her boyfriend not to come see her because she would not be home on Sunday. Tulitas admonished her for fibbing to her boyfriend since they were not going to go out of town. The sister hit Tulitas and made her cry. Immediately, their grandmother came to check out the situation. Tulitas explained the problem. Their grandmother asked, “Tulitas,
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