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Show WHAT A Diri'IORIONDE FIFTY YEA ICS MAKK 1883 Fifty years ago women wore hoop-skirts, biiHtles, petticoats, corsets, cotton stockings, high button shoes, flannel nightgowns, puffs in their hair did their own cooking, baking, cleaning, washing, ironing raised big familieswent to church Sunday were too busy to be sick. Men ' wore whiskers, square hats, Ascot ties, red flannel underwear, und-erwear, big watches and chains chopped wood for stoves bathed once a week drank ten-cent whiskey and five-cent beer rode bicycles, buggies or sleighs went in for politics worked 12 hours a day lived to a ripe old age. Stores burned coal-oil lamps caried everything from a needle to a plow truste deverybody never took an inventory placed orders for goods a year in advance ad-vance always made money. 1933 Today women wear silk stockings, stock-ings, short skirts, low 6hoes, no corsets, an ounce of underwear have bobbed hair, play bridge, drive cars, have pet dogs, and go in for politics. Men have high blood pressure, wear no hats, and some no hair, shave their whiskers, shoot golf, bathe twice a day, drink poison, play the stock market, ride in airplanes never go to bed the same day they get up are misunderstood mis-understood at home work five hours a day, play ten die young. Stores have electric lights, cash registers, elevators, never have what the customer wants trust nobody take inventory daily never buy in advance have overhead-mark up-mark down-quota-budget-advertising-stock control con-trol annual and semi'-annual, end-of-month, dollar day, founder's found-er's day, rummage, economy day sales- and never make any money. |
