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Show I "I REMEMBER"! PVTHI 015 TIMERS Um - .m mi From Harref M. Eeddlck, Glasgow, Glas-gow, Montana: I remember . . . when eggs were three dozen for a quarter . . . butter was ten cents a pound, and milk was Ave cents a quart. The cellar was filled with vegetables and canned fruit every fall; the butcher gave away liver and treated the kids o bologna. The hired girl received two dollars a week, did the washing and helped take care of the babies. And . . . women did not powder pow-der (in public), smoke, vote, play poker, or shake the shlmmie. The men wore whiskers and boots, chewed tobacco, spit on the sidewalk side-walk and cussed. Good whiskey was 15 cents a drink or two for a quarter, beer was five cents and the lunch was free. Laborers worked twelve hours a day for a dollar and a half, were glad they had a Job and never went on strike. The big hotels gave you a fine room and three sumptuous meals all for" three dollars a day and Invited you to come again . . . no tips were given to waiters and the hat check grafter was unknown. un-known. A bath In the washtub in the kitchen; horse hair furniture; a kerosene lamp and stereoscope in the parlour were luxuries. The Holy Bible with its sacred records of marriages, births and deaths and the family album were prominently displayed in all well regulated families. No one was ever operated on for appendicitis . . . microbes were unheard of . . . folks lived to a ripe old ge and every year walked miles to visit their friends. (Srnd contributions t th Is column U The Old Timer, Csramnnlty Presa Serf )cc, Box r-'rnkloft, KeoUckj.) |