| Show good old days euchre 0 bustled bustles bartenders money musk rag carpet sleigh bella frozen pump fly blanket shaving beau catchers quilting bees moustache cups the quadrille livery stables oyster suppers the schottische home baked bread bull in the ring john L sullivan white undershirts underskirts Under skirts five cent see gars reader soapstone bed warmers red flannel underwear torchlight professions processions Process ions Muzzle loading shotgun whiskers way down here all gone forever by ELMO SCOTT WATSON old timer elwook hh head badii as lie read the above item in his biome town paper the other dav ah he sighed if they were the only bilings that this jazz age had wiped out I 1 but they arent vav I 1 could add several dozen more to that bunch so lie sat down with pencil and paper and this 1 the list he compiled cigar store indians batching bitching bit ching lacks on miln street woodpiles wood piles yoke of oxen rail fences farm peddlers dres ers copper toed boota iron hitching posts topped by a horbes wad with a ring in the mouth high wheel bicycles toll kites real corn bread made without n it boot juks 1 soap home butchered pork photograph albums pillow shann stona whatnots balloon 1 biln barrels autograph auto griph coffee inells coal oil lumps and literary eo clelles clet les oh it can t he ns bid as all that rein irked a crony to whom he ills collection there mut bu n few 0 those bet tibiae where in the united hot maar not anan mourned the old timer they anik about the vanishing kinerk in hat about alie vanishing american e some of theeb hy scarcely a day goes b that I 1 don nad in alie papers about he passing of something or other that I 1 knew han I 1 waa u boy jut look at thecel the first was clipping from the boston globe which bald the old r who libed to corn 0 o your home and ew by the day li declee growing cep pt won n are madlne thear own clothe 0 o to those who beell while the store with their ive rad na nade rock are clothing the ionian who juat cant ew result no maker open in ft anion in part of her bom and becomes a modiste result no 2 the regulation seamstress badee out of the picture she can t get business in a community in which nearly every woman bew her own seams time was when mother called up alea ma or mis jenny ehe came early and baeten compera and fitted sleeve all day lone for 2 it ehe had a for designing and tone ehe cot ts luncheon and dinner included today the customer goes to the dresa maker A white capped mold asan what I 1 the name please and promises an appointment with madam at euca and such ft time the drees or more properly gown will coat anywhere from to for the designing and making the price of the material Is extra even the term dressmaker Is she I 1 a designer ot gowns a modiste a madam under a kansas city mo date line appeared tills item which declared that pack in the daya when ward acal ilsters ll 00 was the only register in the east the middle west had tin own way of identifying the socially elect strangely enough its passing has been almost un marked in the so called nifty nineties the register of eligible males in most mid die western towns waa to be found on the careful guarded shelves of lil ei here row on row eat the private mugs 0 the towns prominent and each was the owner name usually in blab orate but now like ward hat the private mug are passing which calir iante the shaving muff altogether hav come into their own some kansas city barbers alimo women invasion of the chop other declare that masculine patrons are noi as particular novi and do not visit the ame shop a they were wont to do when business wa transacted in more leisurely fashion still others slid the need tor the muffs had thai they came into being the result of some ore belief they would be more sanitary in a few small towns the private survive but in the main they are gone ws w s from the belind denier it said the old time tr meling merchant who peddled a mall line of dixe from farm to farm ha disappeared in this section the development of mode at the exten elon of of communication and the coming of improved highway have made obsolete the old traveling stores but their memory lingers for in the old day the peddler or huckster was vital part of farm life the buelnas of the roer cirit A natural ee iunce of the alme and condition the pack peddler followed the pioneer with hie pack i dress boods feminine wear linens and trinkets but the traveling merchant was brought to the stage of action by an entirely different t of the nettled localities the long distances between stores and the long periods of bad roads ench year made the for him the people as a whole could not conven antly reach him but he could take his store on wheel and to them that was the ecret of the in the whole undertaking and shnte alie way tt la cerv eliere declared the old 1 liner 1 I tell ou lie fellon who wrote tant book about no mor parades was n piece from the chris tian sd nce monitor that e american streeta eldom in these busy and practical times to the ifera ra and of th old fashioned parade email boy nobe abron the curb to behold th laa vcr master prancing before blowing a brazen baet alt to kr their bricht born who chuia 7 that dearest image of the youa lve in hi biz bearskin bear ekin hako hamd I 1 place by a ellier chain bendul i chint or who could tor matter hie chort blue coat batta by mean ft sold trac a dark wised aroet to hie red where Is the one whirled above hi abrat who that ha throw it on high cannot still ct the eael of assembled boyhood u h r returned to hie left hand 0 boy have broken window i counted practicing that trick martzo broom hand the truth be told 1 i a nation has loat the art 0 pard the of old ht join the neglected lmae go ret tydues in the pantheon 0 1 that to be americana 0 yett day wee the greatest erea test ahmes to the bound of a and the lure of a uniform r of a martial people man has known elory to ure than he who ni arched 8 lines of faaee while fletar en and bricht eyed youth did honert t the old timer next lipping from the gilem folind the of the for a bit of ria ng alth alarm beau I 1 in daya of power law s waya f heaton and 0 bora are not ex eicle with the eawh ors i the bucksaw that their father obtain fl 3 about tl la time at the old admul i it wae customary S he old man gently but firmly to fi S ahli eon out to the flood pile an beat that t wae needful for him atef those powerful row erful looking 1 S our foot wood to kitchen atoe jl before plow ine time came it waa more or les ly that these youngster BI board and and pending and that the least they could to perform the tai on ati woodpile wood pile it wa a physical exer cl brood moral boy iraln tr aln y cut up a woodpile usually ad V they raised nellt had a pretty bood time it 5 another wa from the toronto B in arthur 8 bourinot Bourt not f this for THE OLD RAIL FENCE of oil W j hen man fart trod the drori the aeed which latr S to arfe 9 the ax released 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