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Show Do You Remember? . . . ' Women are now actually wearing wear-ing a modernized kind of "hat" to roll the hair ends upon, and bows in the hair are popular. The old-time old-time head shawl, too, is having a new fling, so perchance this war may revolutionize the styles. But, when we must go back to cotton hose that will be the hardest hard-est of all the changes, to most of the feminine population! Why not have a nice straight seam painted from heel to knee, clocks or love-birds painted each side of the ankle, and wear our birthday stockings! In a style show last Friday, By MAUDE H. BENEDICT 4 Do you remember when Springville Spring-ville had a "pest house" for two b!td cases of smallpox? One of the victims was Gib Sanford, who almost al-most died of it. Our father, T. T. Hatch, was the only man in town who had had that particular type of smallpox, so he was induced to take care of the two patients. We do not remember who the other man was. But they were both dreadfully ill. Father used a feather to anoint them, and even the light touch of that brought, pain but they lived, and later Gib Sanford told everyone that Father had saved his life. we saw a wedding gown witn train two yards long; beautiful, and very old-fashioned. And who would have predicted or even imagined the day would come when the lowly safety pin would not be plentiful in the store! Well, that time is here; we hunted hunt-ed through all the department stores last week and the only safety pins available or purchasable purchas-able were of the horse blanket size. So Mary and Jane will have i. ... hnfnna V1TI7 if tVlOT7 We used to have every disease that came along no quarantine was required except for smallpox, diptheria, or scarlet fever, and children broke out in school any old day with measles, chickenpox, or what-not, and it was not considered con-sidered catastrophic, as it would be today. It seemed to be the general idea that, "Well, so long as they have to have these diseases, di-seases, they may as well get over it sooner the better!" I to sew on buttons now it tney can buy any buttons. Zippers are J scarce, too; maybe we'll have to H hang our clothes on with draw- H strings, like the ones used on , H laundry bags. And none of us can j a repent in "sack cloth and ashes" g either, for there's no burlap to 1 repent in. H Now, about people. Do you re- 1 member when Mrs. Alma Wheeler ! was Dorothy Stoker? She used to I be a singer, and was very popular 9 at parties and on programs. Her I brother, Al Stoker,, is remembered g also, as a witty and unusually hap- ; jj Surprising how most of us lived, in the days when germs were not considered so dangerous. The good old days, indeed! And we may have to go farther back than many of us can remember if they keep cutting down on this and that. Wouldn't it be funny to see the automobile standing unused in its garage, while transportation was being carried on by horse or even ox-team ? History repeats itself, we are reminded, so perhaps we will live to see many old customs revived. py character. i B Of Walter Wheeler, the ' mor- a tician, and his wife, Ellen, it is re- i B membered how united in spirit j Q they always seemed to be, and 9 Mrs. Wheeler was so sociable and jg charming in manner. fl At a Daughters of the Pioneers H program held on City Square one H time in the long ago, Mrs. Wheeler g came to" the bench on which sat D Mother, a sister, Lee, and myself, g Mrs. Wheeler, after greeting Mo- j B ther, turned to me and said to B Mother, "And this is your grand- I Eg daughter?" "No," answered Mo- g ther, "my daughter." B Lee gave me a nudge and whis- H pered, "Thank the Lord for pow- B der and paint." That's my family they do love B to remind us that we are not so B young as we may appear to be! H After all, life is too short for S its possessors to wear long faces S and with this thought we say g again B Do you remember? H |
