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Show Do You Remember? . . . nolds clear, radiant, rose petal texture skin. And Viva Gammel, Effie Kelsey, and Belle Curtis! No complexion could out-rival theirs. Oh, many others of the Springville girls were equally endowed en-dowed with beauty. Do you remember when you didn't need to look twice to know a woman was a grandmother? They were lovely, but they looked their age. The writer realizes that the hardships, trials, and inconveniences incon-veniences of those days were not conducive to keeping young. Of course there were exceptions, but they were rare. The had no foundation creams, nor foundation garments, to keep them streamlined as today. After all, it has been pointed out that beauty is only skin deep; that cosmetics are camouflage, but gracious gra-cious me, lady! what a heavenly camouflage to most of us! Do you remember? . . . (To Be Continued) I!y MAUDE H. G. BENEDICT DO YOU REMEMBER? . . . When the stretch between the Springville sugar factory and Spanish Fork was railed "Straight Line?" And do you remember how cold it was to drive there to a dance in winter? When all the voting: people, who were brave enough to take the cold trip, loved to dance in Spanish Fork, at Hales Hall, where they had a spring floor? The happy hours we spent there, dancing to the "Dream Heaven Waltz," the two-step, two-step, and "Rage Quadrille"? Some of the more thoughtful beans had foot-warmers in their "rigs." Large stones that had been heated in mother's cook stove oven, wrapped in a blanket, and in such cases we would arrive warm and comfortable. But while the ball went on, the stones cooled, so the trip back to Springville was so cold as to be almost al-most torture. The young gallants brought home-made barbers tried to imitate imi-tate the style? The result often looked like a bowl had been placed plac-ed inverted over the "victim's" head and all hair remaining visible lopped off! Many a "Buster Brown" haircut hair-cut in those days resembled nothing no-thing so much as the roof of a Hottentot hut! Oh, boy! When there were no beauty parlors, and very, very, few hairdressers? hair-dressers? The hair curled with curling tongs, heated in the chimney chim-ney of a kerosene lamp, or curled on papers? And many a frizzled head of hair would greet the eyes? When hair was shampooed with rain water and home-made soap? A rinse of sage tea added the finishing fin-ishing charm of shining, clean, beautiful locks. Remember when no lady ever wore rouge or lipstick, and even powder was frowned upon by our elders? Rice powder was the only kind obtainable, and came only in dead white, or a flaming pink shade. So take it or leave it! Our mothers repeatedly told us that that whitewash would ruin what little beauty of complexion we might have, and they quoted the Bible wherein it foretells that "women "wo-men will be bald-headed, etc." and it sounded to us very ominous indeed in-deed but we had to be beautiful, tho' the heavens fall! An expression expres-sion of one of the writer's friends is, "Why, I would'nt be caught dead without my make-up!" Verily, we've come a long way, in many things, since those days of being resigned to what little beauty we had, and not trying to do anything about it! And yet, as I look back along the years, I remember re-member many very beautiful girls in Springville, that no cosmetics could have made more so. The complexions, minus makeup, make-up, had a radiance that make-up artists have not, even yet, achieved. achiev-ed. I recall lovely Ellis Reynolds, Carrie Reynolds, and Dora Rey- f : along laprobes to tuck about our feet, too, but we'd be so cold on reaching home that we couldn't unbutton our shoes and often had to call mother to help us undress. un-dress. I say "we," speaking of the girls, but I'll bet the boys were equally frozen, and they had to unharness their horse, feed and blanket it, before they could go inside! Quite a different picture now, when son dashes up in his car, rolls back the garage door, runs the car inside, clicks off the ignition, igni-tion, and can be snugly in bed in a heated bedroom, before you can say "Jack Robinson!" He'd never have a moment's chill wind creep down his spine! In the days of which I write, everyone wore enough clothes for an Arctic expedition, yet the bleak winds howled around, penetrating pene-trating the toughest fabric. Winters Win-ters were much more severe then, and I do not recall one Christmas that the eround was bare of snow! To this day the writer abhors snow and cold weather. Too many bobsled rides, ice skating parties on clear moonlight nights in zero weather, and snowball fights at school, ever to like winter! Perhaps Per-haps that is a sign of age creeping creep-ing on but that feeling has persisted per-sisted since childhood. Remember when the children wore long ribbed cotton stockings, stock-ings, that despite round elastic garters they always slid down, forming a two-inch "lap" over the shoe tops? This partly because of long "union suit" underclothing that made all stockings appear as if the wearer had carbunckles! When boys up to sixteen wore knee pants? Only in retrospection do we see the humorous side of many things that were taken as matter of course in days ago. Whatever is customary is, and always al-ways has been, acceptable. as to be scarcely noticed. Do you remember the lovely long braids that Lena and Hannah Condie wore? Far below the waist and tied with a huge black or red ribbon bow the envy of all the girls! When no "bobbed" hair was seen except on those poor boys whose mothers did the family bar-bering bar-bering and many a fancy job you would see! When the "Buster Brown" haircut became popular, and Remember when the young ladies la-dies wore flat bows on the hair, pressed down to resemble a three-or three-or four-leaf clover? When hair was worn brushed up the back of the head (as is now fashionable) but minus the curls on top; worn rather twisted twist-ed into a tight bob on top of the head? I do remember though, some very beautiful "figure 8" bobs the young ladies wore. When it was usual to see a fringe of straggly hair, called "scolding locks" falling down over the collar? The short ends not long enough to be included in the bob? That, too, was so common |
