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Show Do You Remember? . . . kinds old and modern, realize that for comfort and utility the modern mod-ern has nothing over the old-fashioned. Remember the song, "It's Theodore Theo-dore The Peacueful Theodore", played on the old-time Edison phonograph? Part of which ran: "It's Theodore, the peaceful Theodore, The-odore, King Ed thinks Teddy is all right God save the King if he should fight with Theodore The man they all adore. He'd lick the King in any ring, Hurrah for Theodore! Do you remember? By MAUDE H. BENEDICT Do you remember how often, if you originated in a small town from which you departed at a comparatively youthful age the old scenes, places and incidents, crowded into the memory? When you return home after years spent in another place you naturally inquire, in-quire, "what became of so and so who lived on such and such a street ? The time of which we write today to-day is the first Roosevelt era; the time of pleated skirts, vici-kid and cloth-topped button shoes; and immense im-mense hats, topped with artificial fruit, and feathers of both the barnyard and wild game bird. We were in the horse and buggy days not the time of stream-lined cars jazz orchestras, and Fascist dictatorships. When the automobile automo-bile was the au-to-Mo-bile. It was the time of Princess Alice Roosevelt in the White House and we thrilled American girls were following the rumors of her engagement en-gagement to the famous Nicholas LongwoFth. When we thought of ourselves as members of a new democratic nobility. In those days, for most of the young women, there were three steadfast careers, that of mother, nurse, or school-teacher. After years of pioneering, women wom-en all over the country were beginning be-ginning to think of themselves as human beings rather than just nlain women slaves to a household. The days of the settee, the folding bed and the family album. For was not the album always brought out as a form of entertainment? enter-tainment? How we laughed at the bewhiskered faces, in ambush, so to speak, and at the Ijefrilled skirts of our aunts, mothers, grandmothers and other relatives and oldtime friends of the family! Headlines in the papers were very exciting in this era. News of the Russo-Japanese war and Roosevelt's attempting to intervene inter-vene and bring peace. When the next election would decide whether Rough Riding Teddy would have a second term in the White House, or retire to his home in Oyster Bay with his numerous family. When the Police Gazette was a very naughty and crime covered paper, read almost exclusively by the male populaution; full of racy and salacious scandal, and labor troubles. The time when Lula Sutton put on in her stock company such shows as Way Down East; Dora Thorne, and On the Bridge at Midnight. Mid-night. When four-in-hand ties with a gold horseshoe tie pin were favored fav-ored as the smartest thing in men's neck wear. The big Majestic Majes-tic range with a ship engraved on the oven door. You will laugh, when we tell you that we have one of those very ranges in our home today. It sets right next to the modern electric range and is used oftener than the latter, especially in winter. This range is now almost al-most an antique, must be more than fifty years old and still going strong. We are prone to smile in a patronizing way, at the things and customs of our chilhood days, nevertheless we must admit they have "held their own", and those who have known the use of both |