Show The First Forks ORBS were really known to our An gloSaxon forefathers 1 fore-fathers throughout i the middle ages This wo know because be-cause a workman who was digging a drain In England not BO very many years ago came upon a box containing con-taining some old Saxon coins of the time of Ethel > V stan 878890 A D and also tho V first fork shown In our cut In an old Saxon mound another fork with a bone handle was found such ns are sometimes used for common even yet The second fork Is a German make of four hundred years ago Tho funny looking old knight on the end Is Jointed Joint-ed like a little girls doll and tumbles about when tho fork Is used while the saw slips up and down the handle I am afraid If you boys and girls had such amusing forks nowadays you might forget to cat Polly Evans doesnt think It would be very pleasant pleas-ant to run the risk of having a jagged Jag-ged saw fall down and cut her mouth each time she took a bite Dont you I agree with her Chicago Inter Ocean |