Show ito IM N K ag R aa aa W l X ap pp 41 Ms i M T n u eu yr 01 y I 1 W 7 W IN t Y w 7 R 4 55 RIM M 14 Y k K fh f H amp am 4 7 14 coura V zok t x anaa akk good old da days a euchre bustles bustled Bust les bartenders money musk rag carpets sleigh bells bella frozen pumps fly blankets shaving mugs beau catchers quilting bees moustache cups the quadrille livery stables oyster suppers Sup pera TUB the Schott lecha home baked broad bread bull in the ring john L vin white undershirts underskirts Under skirts five cent See gars oars McGuff cys readers soapstone Soaps tono ded W ar mers red Flar flannel Under underwear weir processions professions Process ions Muzzle loading shotguns whiskers way down hera all gone forever dy by ELMO almo SCOTT WATSON fF iu old timer rinier shook hl his g hond head sadly andly ns na lio lie reail read tile tho T item in ill lila biome jj town piper paper tho the other tiny lily all lie if they were the only th tiling it that tills jazz age 1111 annl wiped out nut they arent why I 1 could add F everill dozen more to that bunch so lio ito sat down with penell pencil and paper and tills fills Is tile list lie he compiled cigar storo Ind lindlang lang hitching rucks racks on oil diun street wood woodpiles woo dilles pIles yoke of oxen rail fences farm peddlers peu illers dressmakers e opper copper toed boots iron hitching posts topped hy by a head with it a ring in tile the mouzli bicycles toll gates real corn bread lande without sugar in it boot bootjacks jacks home ninde soap honic pork photograph albums pillow shams stone chuna whatnots ascensions rain harr barrels els autograph graph albu albums ins coffeo coffa ingils coal oil batup s and societies cie ric ties oh it cant cantie be us as had as all that reint remarked irked a crony to whom lie he showed his collection thero there must lie be a few of those left somewhere in the united states not many not danyl mourned tile lie old tinier timer they talk about tho the Iyani shing Aine american rican whitt what about tile american institutions like mirim of these why theres scarcely it flay goes by that I 1 dont rend read in ill the papers about the passing of something or if other that I 1 knew when I 1 was a iov Y just look boole at thesel these 1 the first was a clipping frontu tile I 1 lo oston loton ton globe which said the old fashioned dressmaker who U d to comp come to your home and sew BOW by the day la Is a disappearing species A growing per percent cent of modern lw worn mn r are ank ankins n their own clothes according 0 to those who soil sell patterns the stores with their in apen rive ready made frocks are olo clothing thing ilie lie woman who just juat cant sew a katch result no I 1 the dress maler maher opens an artis artista th bott ughtred salon in a 0 part of her home and be conics a modiste sto no 2 the regulation seam scam tress fades faded out 0 of tho the picture she cant got business in a community in which nearly every woman sews her own scams time was when mother called up tip aliss mas or 0 r was jenny olia eha canie came early und and basted and fitted sleeved nil all day long for it if she had a knault anac for or deRi designing gning and tone nh got 13 3 luncheon and dinner included today the customer goes to the dressmaker A white capped maid asks whal wha to la the name please and promises an appointment with madam madain at such and such a time the dress or more properly sown gown will cost coat any chero front from 66 65 to wo for or tho the designing and making tho the price of 0 the material Is in extra even the term dressmaker la 19 sho she it is a designer of 0 gowns a modiste a madam under n kansas city mo ito date dan line appeared this item which declared that I 1 hack in the days when ward acal listers stera ll was waa the only recognized social octal a register elster re in the last 1 ast tile tho middle west lest lind abi own way ot of identifying tho socially elect strangely its has been almost unmarked in the a so 0 called nifty nineties the register of eligible males in most middle le western towns town 1 was wai to be found on the carefully guarded shelves of 0 tonsorial lal emporiums korc here row on row sat eat thi private shaving m mugi of the towns prominent and across each wit wa 1 the owners name usually in elaborate script but now like ward mcallisterr list the private mugs are passing new fandango es eliminate the tha shaving mus altogether have como come into their own some kansas city barbers blame invasion of the shops others declare that masculine patrons are ara not as particular now and do not always visit tho the same shop as ai they wore were wont to do when business was transacted in more leisurely fashion still obber etheri k said the tha need for the mugs had past passed iod that they came into being at the result of some BOMB ones belief they would be more inore sanitary in a few small towns the private mugs still survive but in the tha main they are gone eone inhibit C was front from tho the plain dealer it said the old time travel lne merchant nt who peddled a small line of dies from farm to farm has feared in this section the tha development of swift modes of transportation the extension of means of communication and tho the coming of 0 improved highways have made obsolete the old traveling storis stores hut but their memory for in the old ald days the tha peddler or huckster was a vital part ot of farm ufa life the tha business of the traveling merchant was p natural sequence of the th times find and condition the pack peddler soon followed the pioneer with hla his pack of dress goods feminine forni nine wear linens and trinkets but the traveling merch merchant Ritt was wait brought to the of notion by an entirely different set of circumstances the sparsely settled localities the long lona distances between stores and the he lonk long periods of bad roads roada each year made the opportunity for him the people as an a whole could not conven antly reach him but lie ha could take his il store on wheels and KO go to them that was waa the secret of the success in the whole undertaking and the way it Is declared the old tinier 1 I tell you tho the fellow who wrote that hook about no more Purn dea wils was right heres a piece from froin tho the christian science monitor that says american streets seldom resound in theme busy and practical times to the tarara ta ra ra and boom boom of the old fascione fash ione a parado small boys no longer th ahroni r ong t the a curbs to behold the bandmaster prancing before him trusty men blowing a brazen blast fit alt to burst burat th bright horns who could forget that dearest image of the ali young wearing his alil bearskin shako hold held in place by a stiver chain beneath his hl chin or who could bould forget tor for that matter life hta short blue coat buttoned by menna means rf ef gold frogs n dark con to hlo hie tight red kantat where Is the baton that once whirled above his head like ft a shining autel aura who that has hirn him throw it on high cannot still recall tile the gamp of assembled boyhood an aa it returned to hla his left hand generation ot of boyr boya have broken windows window uncounted practicing that trick with broom han handles clies tho the truth must bo be told america an aa A nation has lost loat the art ot of parading the bandmaster of old has cone bone to join the neglected images though he yet endures in the pantheon of heroes that to be americans americana of yesterday were the greatest pa of all times rallying to the sound of a drum and the lure of rt a uniform with the instinct 0 of f a martla martial people and what man lias has known glory in fuller mens ure ura than lie he who marched between lines linen of admiring faces face s while fair worn wom en and bright bricht eyed lymuth did homage tile old tinier timer next exhibited a clipping froni tile enss 31 ass news which found the 06 passi passing tig of one in ution the enuse cause for a bit of inlew blew ius ing with alarm alarin because in these days of power saws and tie now ways of heating arld and cooking the majority of boys boya are not rotting getting the ine fine clim with the sawhorse and the bucksaw that their fathers used to obtain about tills this time as tho the old almanac says baya it formerly was customary cua tomary tor for the old men man gently but firmly to ateer hta 1119 9 son ann out to the vir wood iod pineland rile and gest that it was for him to re duco those powerful looking sticks of four foot wood to kitchen stove size before plowing time came in the firring it avam ana suggested more or less delicately that these youngsters had free board and clothes anti and spending money and that the denst they could do was waa to t perform per the task on that woodpile wood pile it was a tine physical exercise and 1 brood l moral discipline boys trained t to I 1 cut ut up a woodpile usually made good good they raised industrious fa millem and had a pretty good time through it all another was from the toronto globe in which arthur S bourinot Bourl not sang bang ihla for THE OLD RAIL FENCE past fast emblem of 0 old id day when man first trod the frontier sowing bowing the seed which later grow grew to dress the tha ax released land with miles of sunlit malze along alone haphazard windings z zis gaag aag ways in april bluebirds bluebird flew all azure plumed ll 11 escde the lowest logo log the bloodroot bloomed unconscious of the brilliant noontide bluze blaze nut now the rails lie rotting in tile the grass or feed th tho urea of chill october eves of former landscapes progress only leaves leaven A vestige which eventually will pass thus thua gradually tho old time tillie glamour fades and fading dies an aa winds through forest glades gladen anil and I 1 could show you dozens more just juht like these concluded tile old tinier timer but I 1 got ot to get home hoille now ilow station WEEP Is broadcasting grand opry tonight and I 1 want to tune lit li on it |