Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-12-27 | Page 7 | The Last Laugh

t I The Last Laugh We Ve are In a fair fall way to lo laugh ourselves to death over the travesties traves travesties ties Ues of the gay nineties th mincing seventies and the fab fabulous lous bus forties In the gay nineties we had bicycles bicycles bl bi- bi cycles pompadours pancake hats hats hats' dragging skirts balloon sleeves needle pointed shoes burnt wood ornaments burnt leather pillows painted shovels fire bead portieres iron dogs on the lawn and pug pu dogs In the house hous The mincing seventies boasted bustles and basques chignons false fals fronts spit-curls spit seven pt J f per pet terrible furni furniture ure parlor parlo I croquet horsehair flowers lowers mother mother- pearly of-pearly pictures In plush frames frame and equipages called callec barouches with yellow fringed tops We Ve feel more kindly toward the tha the fabulous forties for fora a a century goneIs gone Is a century gone and we are sneaking down from the attic aWe the time things w we e once despised But pant pant- were beginning to pant al two-gallon two beaver hats for formen men h had hada d da a thatch an Inch deep We e are not so keen about t Including the two latter objects in the resurrection Let us have one weather eye on en the future Who laughs last laughs aug best and the end is not yet It m is reasonably certain that our grandchildren grandchildren grand grand- children will be making smart re remarks remarks remarks marks about the time eter everybody e body had to have a ship on the mantle or jouve youve seen those terrible sUd sU sill d dolls they sold by the yard and se seon seta on the bed in the guest room 0 they called 1926 the blue age when all the pictures had to be blue w I blue frames But the worst of all cli allwill will trill b be th dIP actual proof of our ignominy T The Th youngsters of 1950 will have more than tradition to Inform them times There are the movies movies' Will vm they shriek at our bobbed heads At OUt our i knee skirts skirts' At our plucked eyebrows eye eje- eyebrows brows 7 Will m they yelp elp with ghoul ish glee over oyer collegiate trousers J coon coats and arid dragging socks socks' inebriate Will they call us the twenties and point with delighted giggles to a n prohibition age that seems to stage most of ot Its settings around a cocktail shaker We are exposed to all aU future generations I It Iq 1 might be well to view ourselves a u as I others will see us