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Show 20 v SPRINGVILLE HERALD , , Thursday, August , zu TS Of SpringVflle History Moonstone" Thursday, August 7, 2008 SMPP Helen Beardall This article is again taken tak-en from the "Do You Remember" Re-member" column that ran in the Springville Herald in 1942. "The'war is on (World War II) and rationing is already taking place in some areas. A note states - Wouldn't it be funny to see the automobile standing stand-ing unused in its garage, while transportation was being carried on by horse or even ox team. History repeats itself, we are reminded, re-minded, so perhaps we will live to see many old customs revived. The old-time head shawl, too, is having a new fling, so perchance this war may revolutionize revolution-ize the styles. But, when we must go back to cotton cot-ton hose, that will be the hardest of all the changes, chang-es, to most of the feminine femi-nine population! Why not have a nice straight seam painted from heel to knee, clocks or love-birds painted on each side of the ankle, and wear our birthday stockings! (How about all the tattoos and birthday stockings we see now in 2008!!) And who would have predicted or even imagined imag-ined the day would come when the lowly safety pin would not be plenti- ful in the store! Well, that time is here. We hunted through all the department depart-ment stores last week and the only 'safety pins available or purchasable were of the horse blanket size. Buttons will have to be sewn on now; if they can buy any buttons. Zippers are scarce too; maybe, we'll have to hang our clothes on with drawstrings, draw-strings, like the ones used on laundry bags. And many of us can't repent in "sack cloth and ashes" either, for there is no burlap to repent in. (An interesting tale of truth of 1942 - and some of us will remember this quite well.) How about this for a party. The 4th grade students stu-dents of Othei Packard at Jefferson School decided, de-cided, suddenly, to give her a party after school one afternoon. Not having hav-ing anything planned for refreshment, the girls living liv-ing nearest to school ran home for something for the party. Some of them returned with a loaf of bread, an apple a piece of cake, and one little girl brought an onion! Well, they pooled their picnic and were sur-: prised that they didn't have anything after all to serve a teacher as grand as Miss Packard. So one little girl ran over to Mrs. Billie Lowe's and told her of the party and their predicament, and Mrs. Lowe gave her a quart of honey which she ' proudly brought to the room, where all was excitement. ex-citement. They hurried into Miss Packard's room just as she was about to leave for home. The soul who told this true story says, "Miss Packard joined in the party as if it were the loveliest she had ever had. She ate some of everything ev-erything they'd brought except the onion! She said she'd gladly have helped eat that, too, but she had a date with her boy friend that night. She was so gracious about the whole thing that until we were grown up we did not realize real-ize what an awful party it was!" Note: In August of 1942, there no electric fans, nor air-conditioned homes like we have now. We do remember when almost every lady carried her fan to meetings, the theater, the-ater, to dances and parties. par-ties. Many of these fans were beautiful, made of silks, of ostrich feathers studded with jet trimmings, trim-mings, or real gems for dressy occasions. Fans were used to carry car-ry out a code in flirtation, also, the coquette hiding behind her fan was an intriguing in-triguing lure for the gentleman gen-tleman in the floradora days. Guess this Was in the gay 90s. Most families had a summer kitchen in which they cooked and ate all the meals during the' hot weather. The wash boiler was filled with luscious green corn to be cut from the cob and dried between sheets of mosquito netting. net-ting. When the fruit was on, there was the smell of jelly boiling on the range or of watermelon rind preserved with cloves and sugaf . Peaches were pickled whole and pears were so beautiful and red when they were preserved. pre-served. An old enameled kettle was .used only in fruit canning, and a long-handled long-handled spoon was used to skim the jelly. Do you remember?,. Citizens are invited to visit the Springville Historical His-torical Society on Mondays Mon-days from.l to 4 p.m. Phone 491-2076 for more information. The society office has many histories of early pioneers, and a large collection col-lection of previous editions edi-tions of the Springville Herald. They need interested inter-ested persons to come and join them in preserving preserv-ing the history of this community. All the lessons of history his-tory in four sentences: Whom theigods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly exceed-ingly small. The bee fertilizes fer-tilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. - Charles A. Beard , Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect ex-pect people to roll stones out of his way but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. - Albert Schweitzer The true: danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. - Edmund Burke Debbie Balzotti fe Summer is a great time to reread a Victorian mystery mys-tery novel. I love to read a British classic between a hefty biography and a : light-weight spy thriller. ' I feel that it provides me with a better education since I am currently home ' schooled. I majored in Early f Graduation at BYU. I was j really an English major at heart due to my love' of words and writing and an ability to read quickly but my degree is actually in Sociology, another less than employable major. . I had the distinction of , graduating Magna Cum Laude, on the Deans List, with not one extra credit and of course pregnant It was BYU remember, r I chose this classic written writ-ten in 1868 by Wilkey Collins Col-lins because my daughter Alyssa is reading it and loving it as much as I did at her age. Collins wrote this first detective novel as a literary lit-erary jigsaw puzzle. He planned the novel carefully, care-fully, with clues cleverly placed and introduced his readers to deductive deduc-tive sleuthing with his Scotland Yard Inspector Cluff. Sherlock Holmes and other literary detectives detec-tives were later based on his character. One measure of a classic clas-sic is how often it is stolen sto-len from by other authors - and this novel has been copied by some of the greatest. Dickens was a close 's friend of Collins and ad-. mired his writing. He wrote about "The Moonstone:" Moon-stone:" "...a very curious story - wild, and yet domestic do-mestic - with excellent character in it, and great mystery. ..It is prepared with extraordinary care, and has every chance of being a hit." Dickens was right - it was a hit. In fact it sold more copies than some '.of Dickens own novels at the time. The moonstone is a huge diamond stolen from a sacred shrine in India and given to an innocent young Englishwoman on her birthday. It comes of course with a curse which takes effect immediately as her peaceful country home becomes a crime scene. ' Prior to the gift of the diamond, the servant Mr. Betterage instructs: "Gentlefolks in general have a very awkward rock ahead in life - the rock ahead of their own idleness." After the diamond's dia-mond's disappearance, the characters emerge from their complacent lives to face misery, danger dan-ger and death. Reading "The Moonstone" Moon-stone" is a graduation requirement for those of us who are now home schooled. I am glad that I revisited it despite the extra effort to find it on the shelf. I highly recommended recom-mended this Wilkey Collins Col-lins classic detective tale for your summer reading. read-ing. w . Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. -Pablo Picasso Chad L Iigtrup, o.d. OPTOMETRY Springville Office M-F 8-5 (Sat by appt.) (801)489-5166 262 E 400 S Springville PHYSICAL & SPORTS THERAPY SERVICES Brian B. Lambert, P.T. William G. Sumsion, M.P.T ' Orthopedic & Sports Medicine 801 489-5669 801 224-2250 801 465-7070 Saluting the 4H Participants Boats Sales Service Boating Made Easy 801-225-3844 1305 N. 1200 West Orem Custom Processing Cutting Wrapping Curing 798-3081 609 W. Arrowhead Trail Rd. Spanish Fork Emissions Made Easy Proud Supporter of the 4H Program Good Luck at the Fair! (801)489-9245 356 N. 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