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Show Do You Remember? ... on the street like a submarine; top-heavy in a short gray chubby, and almost as short skirt of magenta ma-genta hue. She pauses to take out powder puff and mirror, closely examines her badly applied makeup, make-up, and with a deep sigh of satisfaction, satis-faction, replaces the vanity case in her bag and nonchalantly resumes re-sumes her stilted stroll down the j avenue! Gracious! Are we beginning to be like our grandmothers to criticize criti-cize the styles, and predict dire consequences to the young lovelies? love-lies? Heaven forbid! We, who are so conscientiously trying to be modern, to understand and even applaud, and, insofar as inhibitions permit, to even ape some of the least conspicuous of these same "abominable styles," as Grandma would say. After all, and accounta what we go to see on the screen nowadays, we do hate being called "mollycoddles." "molly-coddles." Ain't it? Do you remember? Rubber can be reclaimed as many as three times before it loses its bounce. 1 Makes one wonder how women just began to think themselves as good as their men and a darn sight better! Alas and alack, as the nursery rhymes go, we wandered far from the tranquil days, and ways. Exchanged Ex-changed our cook stoves for an office desk, farmed the children out to the day nursery, sent the laundry out, and bought bakery goods and canned foods, instead of being the faithful cooks and bottle washers of the last generation. gener-ation. Nowadays all one needs to be a good cook is a can opener! We hope there are still some homes run by a real home-maker. The "filthy lucre" has such a drawing power that once a woman is handed hand-ed a check, it does something to her personality that changes all the domestic machinery and makes of her a different kind of slave. Scientists tell us that in the not too far distant future we shall : By I MAUDE H. EENEDICT Do you remember the Walter Bird family of the First ward? Mrs. Bird was seldom seen away from her home but she loved to be out in the sunshine. She always wore a bonnet and her light brown curly hair used to escape its prison and make little rings on her forehead fore-head and face. She had a beautiful complexion, a serenely calm purity of features, and the gentlest manners. man-ners. In the early childhood days when passing the Bird residence we often saw Grandma and Grandpa Grand-pa Bird bending over some flowering flower-ing shrub or pansy bed in earnest conversation about the soil, or examining ex-amining a new bed or a rosebush. Their yard was always trim and attractive. Mrs. Bird was what in those days would be considered a "model wife" one who never went visiting the neighbors whose whole life was built around her home and family. But back to the Bird family. One of the sons so well remembered remember-ed is Wallace he who was sheriff or marshal at one time, and whose wife was lovely Millie Clegg, have our food in concentrated form, so all we shall need will be one pill for breakfast, two for dinner, and one for supper. Doesn't sound very filling, does it? But it does sound revolutionary! Perhaps we gourmets, who have wondered how Heayen could be if we had no food, will begin to realize the matter can be solved by the capsule method. How far off the track this column col-umn does wander! daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Israel Clegg. Wallace and Millie were such dear friends of ours in the childhood days. We recall the time their little daughter, Alice, passed away the deep grief of both parents, par-ents, and the enlarged picture of the beautiful Alice that hung on the wall in their home. The other sons are not so well remembered, but there was John, Arthur, Arch, and Walter, we believe. be-lieve. Perhaps other members belonging be-longing to the family. Up and down the streets of the old home town the memory roams searching out old friends and people peo-ple known to us only by name. We suddenly remember Lola White, Pearl Harmer, and Mark Harmer. Out of the past their faces room up distinctively and they are in the school days. The lovely rosy cheeks Pearl had; the curly hair of Mark and we wonder where they are today. Cora Bate; her brother, Mar-cellus; Mar-cellus; Lucinda Clark, and Jessie Bird their distinct personalities so clear at the moment! A contributor asks if we remember remem-ber when we all wore black stockings stock-ings with the underwear tucked down in, even when we were in high school, and how we worked for almost hours to get all the wrinkles smoothed away. And the first light-colored hose that came in style. The mothers and grandmothers grand-mothers thought them ridiculous and disgraceful, they looked so much like bare legs! Twenty years ago! What would be their reaction to the half-hose worn now, even at evening parties! Truly some of the modern styles even to our "hardened-to-any-thing" eyes are ridiculous. For example, one seen on the street yesterday: A hat like a bird's nest, perched upon a stack of straw-colored curls that had the appearance of miniature barrels with both ends knocked out; Nylon Ny-lon hose of nude shade, showing veins that were obviously varicose; vari-cose; red gloves and bag, also lips and cheeks. The new "freedom red" that is so stunning and we mean stunning! This model was quite fortyish. Skirt well above the knees, high-heeled pumps, and a - chubby, the long-haired doggy kind so popular new really no other comparison fits this picture so well as that of an ostrich out for a May walk! Another a fat model looms up |
