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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH nan at URN f ftc CENTURYi NEBRASKA VALLEY IRRIGATION. ISTS HANG WORK AND MEAD IN EFFIGY Bicycles and . ...Corsets No' Immediate Agreement For Back . Payments m In 1925. Skirts receded to the knees, stockings below them. Garters (were) worn visibly below the knee. The HALLER JAKLON you old enough to look a quarter of a century remember with any degree of vividness the fascinating scenes and events that made-u- p' the American years of 1904904? Or are you of the younger 'generation which wonders how its parents managed to exist without motors, movies, Jazz bands, radios, lipsticks, bobbed hair, and knickers? But they did exist. And more. They bad a good tlmp, and in addition were on hand to witness some of the most remarkable changes ever packed Into one generation. Your grandfather who now pilots' his whizzing flivver over smooth, hard roads can remember the time when his ox team plodded ARE high-bone- went dangerous.- d Iarrisli. Within the usual American home Monday was always wash day, attended by a soapy, steamy scent of Water suds, Mr. Sullivan recalls. frequently had to . be carried in bucket s from a well some distance from the house. Clothes were put to soak t he night Before, and washing was begun as early as four In the morning. It was a matter of pride to have the washing liung before breakfast, and neighbors would vie with each other In seeing whose washing appeared first on the line. Tuesday was ironing day, and the Irons were heated on a hot stove. . . . Womens and childrens clothing was made Und the shlr,s,of t,1(: A familiar figure in the late 90s .ndTr,rho,ne men. . . . No man was ashamed 00s. one In rode those to wear early Every an honest patch. . . . Fridays and despite the panic of 1893 t!.e bicycle makers prospered, for day was cleaning day. Saturday was . To use much people In most moderate circum-etanc- es baking day. would rigidly economize In bakers bread was an indictment at other things for the sake of buying once of a housewifes industry und of her pride fli her calling. cycles. To t tie relief of this routine there through muddy' trails. Your grand- came first the Chinese laundry, and mother who pushes a button to flood later the community laundry ns a her room with electric light cun re. business institution; the dry cleaner, member the time when the candle ,tle electric washing machine and mold, twelve long tubes of tin, Joined wringer, the electric Iron, the vacuum together, was still a c minion house- T"" .. ' urtlde. Mark in Sullivan reviews It all for The Turn of the Century, " the first volume of ids series JOur Times, the United States, " Charles published by Scribner's Sons. Ills 002 pages of text, Illustrations, maps, und statistical tallies lay before you not only the full pageant of these glorious years, but also 'the preliminary events which were taking place before the dawn of the century. Reading along, you are impressed that tilings In those days moved with less speed and noise. In the cities Ht six in the morning workmen, some on bicycles, some afoot, are going to their toil. They get $125 a day, but they are singing and whistling. For a man could buy a suit of clothes for $8, an overcoat for $, a pair of shoes for $2.50. Dressed in gingham at 5 cents a yard, ids wife goes to market, where she buys a dozen" eggs for 11 cents, a pound of butter for 24 cents, and ail the sugar she wants for 4 cents a pound. Crossing the quiet street down which speed no "devil-wagonshe enters a dry gawds store, where she buys a pair of shoes for $1.95, a corset for 50 cents, and a length of 50 Inch sponged and shrunk French cheviot at 79 cents a yard. Her shopping done, she goes home to a common boxlike or house. "The parlor of 1900 was furthree-piecnished, usually, with sets, Mr. Sullivun says. These were upholstered In red or green plush, gaudy successor to the horsehair! then Just beginning to be looked on with disapproval. For bedroom and dining-roosuites, golden oak was In vogue. On the floor was an Ingrain tight-lacin- With It passed. and almost the cor- - .... War-tim- e graphs showed women wearing colored carpet, with huge, hlgk-ldesigns, underluld with padding und tucked down." On the walls are two or three of Charles Dana Gibsons drawings with the Gibson girl, mugnillcently poinpadoured and corseted and perhups n sketch of the old southern darkey by Kemble; one of Remingtons Indians, o.r even a Max-tiel- hold collar d set itself. Tracing the rise of bobbed hair, Mr. Sullivan points out that women workers (during the World war) discovered that under limitations of time and otherwise, work and care would be facilitated by short hair. Women In ammunition factories found that powder got into their hair and wgs In the later '90s Charles Dana Gibsons drawings In sheer black and white largely displaced the chromo and achieved an almest universal vogue. His characters, always clean and fine, composed the models for the 'manners of a whole generation of Americans, their dress, their pose, their attitude toward life. Mr. Sullivan says. (Copyright, by Colliers Weekly.) you 1900-1901,- 1900-1925,- by gasoline motors were devised, wlilch furnished light for buildings, helped the housewife in her daily tasfv.s, aild pumped water for domestic uses. Electricity or gasoline began to milk cows, curry horses. Release from much hard physical labor (tlius) actually came, .but life did not become more simple. New needs, new desires, were stimulated. Luxuries became necessities. , . . Instead of comparing ills state with tlie past, instead of reflecting that lie was far richer in material comforts than George Washington, who was the richest American of his generation Instead of that, the average man made ids comparison with tiie richest of Ills own generation. Looking at the outward surface of American life, Mr. Sullivan tells us Hint one of the most marked changes was in womans dress and adornment. Just before 1900, the vogue of the bicycle had begun a revolutionary Innovation, which, after 1900, whs carried further by a greater participation In athletics by women In colleges, by increased employment of women in business, and by certain curious consequences of tlie (World) war. . . . The bicycle, authorities agree, started the revolution. In tlie late 80s and early '90s, when tlie high wheel was supplanted by tlie safety, women began timorously to ride. Previous to that, almost tlie only sport freely permitted to women by convention had been croquet. Women laid ridden horseback, but only on sedate side saddles and in a riding habit, in which the ri fnount of covering and cloth was even greater than tlie long trains of ordinary dress. Manufacturers begun to make a safety bicycle adapted to women by nets to protect skirts from becoming entangled in the wire spokes. Gradually and daringly a few women began to wenr shorter skirts, weighting die hems down with little strips of lead." Then came lawn tennis, accompanied by modification of stays and corsets. That met with outraged criticism. Ministers' exhorted their congregations to eschew die ungraceful, unwomanly, and unrefined game w hit'll offended all tlie canons of womanly dignity and delicacy. But sports for women began to be. adopted in tlie women's colleges, then begin-luto expand. . . . The more daring began to appear in bloomers. These were ridiculed in die press and denounced from die pulpit. It took years for the changes In dress to pass from costumes for sports Into ordinary wear. Skirts ending iit die nijklcs for street wear in had weather were ridiculed, where not more gravely condemned. In 1900 tlie standards of stjle in appearance and dress ran to smallness, and called for high, tight-lavecorsets, tight kid gloves, and shoes usually a sie or more too small. Tlie standard of beauty in waists called for one that could be easily clasped with two hands.' "By 1925 the 'Sunday best had" passed away; woman tried to look her best at nil times. . , With other changes, dresses that required ten yards of material were supplanted by some requiring less than three. Cotton stockings almost disappeared, and silk took their place. Tlie long sleeves of 1900 receded to none at all photoover- SHEDDlNegFHAIti1 kO TENDER FeTt --. yin characteristic dime-nove- l cover of the 90s. Compared with some of the novels of 1926, they were chaste, ethical, and overflowing with rectitude," according to Mr. E. L. Pearson of the New York Public Library. A two-doll- . l, sweeper, t lie electric sewing machine, the tireless cooker. Housework was completely revolutionized. .The adaptations of electricity for housework began to arrive about 1900 in the cities. By 1925 the long antenna of the power stations had begun to reach along country roads, and the conveniences that the city woman had enjoyed were now made available to the farmer's wife. Generators driven ... d Hero Is an example of accurate fore casting by a prophetic cartoonist, Homer Davenport, who in 1899 published this rawing, The Passing of the Horse, in the New York Journal. alls, knickers and w.th hair bobbed. Other women soon look up the practice. Finally it became a fad. At tlie end of the war It showed some signs of dv ing out, but was revived by motion picture actresses. By the beginning of 1924, bobbed hair was practically universal. Nearly all new spring liats weye so small that only bobbed heads could get into them. Many women were forced 'into tfi'e vogue. It was almost impossible to find a hat large enough for a woman with long In Brigham City. The comissioners of Boxelder county are arranging for the building of a new $40,000 county Jail, to be erected east of the present county' Jail site in this city. The location is Just south of the county courthouse and north of the Mahannah hospital, the ground having been purchased from Dr. D. L. Mahannah. Sight; President Coolidge Is Acting; Protests . Pour In Salt Lake City. Total assessment valuation of property in the state of Utah in 1926 will probably amount to approximately $30,000,000 more than the minal assessment of 1925, judging by the increase shown in the valuations made by the various county assessors and by the Increase in the not productions of the metal mines of tbe state during 1925. The mines are assessed at three times the net production for the preceding year. Ogden. National Commander John R. McQuigg of the American Legion has dispatched oongratulations to De partment Commander Arthur Woolley on the showing Utah has made in membership up to this time. Utah is one of .the twenty-fou- r states which had, on May 15, surpassed the total membership as of December 31st last. Salt Lake City. Utah cherries have made their appearance on the local market. Forty cases from Davis county were on sale on Friday. The growers of cherries in Davis county have contracted the greater part of their harvest this year with eastern dealers. Salt Lake City. The alfalfa weevil has caused a lot of trouble in Utah. "Many methods have been used in the effort to beat the little pests, But Friday a new mode of attack was started when George I. Reeves, chief of the Commissioner Mead. Governor McMul- bureau of entomology, sent Captains len wired that something must be A. F. Herrold ami H..C. French on an aerial offensive. done Immediately to save the crops. The Omaha Bee, a Republican newsBrigham City. H. S. Kerr, assistant -paper, also sent a telegram to the chief engineer of the state road compresident and Secretary Work de- mission; B. W. Matteson, senior high manding the water.be turned on and way of the bureau of public the paynlhnt's settled afterwards so roads,engineer and District Engineer K. C. as to save a fast wilting. beet and alWright left Brigham City to make a falfa crop. route inspection of the Tremonton-Strejel- l The north Platte valley project highway. They expect to recomprises almost 200,000 acres of land turn" Saturday night. lying on both sides of the North Platte Salt Lake City. Marcus Harris, river and extending from Lingle, Wyo., vice president of the B. Harris Wool to Northport, Neb., a region approximately 150 miles long and 20 miles company of St. Louis, purchased from the Southern Utah Wool Marketing wide. Formerly used for grazing only the association of Cedar City two pools of 66,800 fleeces, or about 600,000 pounds, valley became a blooming garden after the constructing of the pathfinder at 28 and 30 cents. This purchase is dam and the reclamation system more the second largest pool for 1926, it bethan a decade ago. The soil is es- ing exceeded by the Jericho pool repecially adapted to the growing of cently of 90,000 fleeces. sugar beets and after water was asSalt Lake City. Full page colored sured the Great Western Sugar Com- views of Bryce canyon, Ogden and at refineries the pany placed great Provo canyons, Saltair, the Tabernacle towns of Mintare, Mitchel, Gering, and block and many other points of scenic Scotts Blubb, Neb. interest in Utah are featured in the newest advertising pamphlet publishFive Girls Die In Factory Fire ed by the Denver & Rio 'Grande Western railroad. The photographs were Rockford, 111. Five girls are dead collected from various sources, but and eight persons are known to be the manuscript was written entirely seriously injured as the result of a fire by Arthur Chapman, Western author. which swept a building occupied by Provo. work on the plant to be esthe Sutton Top shop, a concern dealing in automobile accessories. The tablished here by the Pacific States bodies were burned so badly they Cast Iron Pipe company will begin could not be recognized. One of the early in June, according to informainjured girls, Catherine .Wood, was tion disclosed Friday. J. R. McWane, burned so severely about the face that president of the company, has made it is feared she may go blind. Others preliminary preparations to rush work suffered sprains and injuries escaping through during the summer months,, to have the plant in from the second floor of the buildnig. and John Sutton, head of the firm was ser- operation by the middle of November. iously burned when he insisted on atSalt Lake City. Utahs cherry crop tempts at rescue until forcibly re- of 1926 is expected to equal in quantistrained by the firemen. All but five and value the crop of a year ago, ty of the thirteen girls employed on the to Utah state farm bureau second floor succeeded in finding their according commented on the offiwho officials room down way out of the smoke-fille'announced by 'Frank cial tabulation the only stairway. The bodies of the federal crop statistician for Andrews, five were found by firemen who fought on the 1925 crop. Utahs total Utah, their way into the building. The fire started when a strip of celluloid be- commercial crop of cherries in 1925 totalled 5,330,000 pounds, according to ing sawed in a machine, on the ground the United States Market News serfloor, burst into flames. vice. The value .was placed t Scotts Bluff, Neb. With no imedi-at- e agrement In sight and with their crops in dire need of moisture, the North Platte. valley water controversy assumed an ominous aspect Friday, reports indicated. Some leaders in the fight fear the more radical .farm-- , ers will resort to violence, which was openly intitmated late last Friday, when Secretary of the Interior Work and Reclamation Commissioner Mead were hung In effigy here. . . The.disagreement between the val ley farmers and officials of the irrigation project, virtually the sole source of moisture for the valley crops, came over payment of operating and maintenance. costs of the project. Reclamation Commissioner Mead holds that all past dues must be paid or payment secured by proper notes, .while the farmers claim all payments should be deferred until a reclassification feature of the recent omnibus water bill, providing for downward readjustment of about $23,000,000 in construction and other charges levied against nineteen western projects is made. Pending a settlement the dammed-uwaters are stagnant and the growing crops are without water. Friday telegrams of protest from Nebraska leaders were wired to President Coolidge, Secretary Work and ( The kind of vice president some per. 6ons expected . Roosevelt would make. A cartoon from the Washington Post. Twenty days after he was eleeted Roosevelt wrote to a friend: I do not expect to go any further In politics." luilr. New stjles of bobbing were invented. Flappers, middle-agewomen, grandmothers, invaded mans last retreat, the barber shop. Men complained. Finally an ingenious barber in California put out a sign: Barber Shop for Men Only. Wliaf made possible the line and cry over Free Silver, Trust-Bustinand New Freedom? lie tells us it was' the end of free land, the immense Increase in population, tlie reduction in since tlie Civil currency by one-hal- f war, and the decrease of liberty following tlie law that the amount of regulation the individual must endure is directly proportional to tlie density of population multiplied by the of its units. d gray-haire- d g 4 d $500,-00- School Land Bills Officially Postponed Washnigton. In an official state ment the secretary of the interior formally announced deferment of action on the school land bills until next session of congress. This agreement to postpone, he says, was reached between congressmen from the western states andjthe Interior department, in order that the department may make a complete analysis of the questions of policy involved In the school land bills. It has been decided, says the secretary, that sufficient time did not exist at the present session of congress for a comprehensive study of such an important change in this national policy. Interior department officials expect to complete this study during the recess of congress and make recommendations at the convening of the next session In December. 1920 1920 1999 lu.ll 1990 Howd you like to go back to these -Left to right: Bathing costumes of 1900 from Vogue of June 21 of that year- 1900 mocui from princess slip. Vogue, February 8, 1900; 1926 model from recent Issue Pictorial Review; 6treet costume. 1900 from Voaue January 11 lonn- 1Q m Vestern Newspaper Union advertising cut and copy service; sports clothes from Vogue, February 22 reCmmended th,i uul Ther8 nothing so sensible, comfortable and clean. The skirt Just escape, the ground, or Yerhap, a little lore. 7- ... to Live in J p g s, f Its a Privilege Those Were Times of the Gibson Girl,. News Notes j Utah - By PROEHL . " Passengers See Fire In Salon New York. While passengers in the main dining .salon looked calmly on the ceiling of the mezzanine dining hall burned away on the liner while the third largest liner on the seas, carrying 1104 passengers, vas midway of its trip from Cherbourg. During the dinner hour on Tuesday nigh? there was a sudden ex plosion above the heads of the 'diners and sheets of flames spouted from the wooden panels of the ceiliig. The fire was controlled in an hoar 0. Ogden. An idea of crop conditions in Weber county was given to members of the Rotary club by LeRoy Marsh, district agricultural inspector He said that the county would have one of is best agricultural seasons. Logan. Last Saturday directors of the various county farm bureau organizations met with County Agent R. L. Wrigley and State Commissioner of Agriculture Harden Bennion to discuss a campaign which has been begun against a number of certain weeds in the county. Myton. Heber J. Webb of Salt Lake City, state agricultural inspector arrived in the Uintah basin Monday to spend a week in this part of the state. Mr. Webb is here for the purpose of inaugurating a campaign to fight two weeds, the Russian knapweed hoary cress, or white top. Salt Lake City. Good growing weather prevailed throughout Utah during the past week, though high temperatures and strong winds depleted soil moisture making rain badly needed in some sections, says th weekly crop and weather report of J Cecil Alter, in charge of the local office of the weather bureau. In detail conditions are given as follows: Alfalfa cutting was reported locally, aud sugar beet thinning progressing in many districts. Livestock are doing well and ranges are good, though becoming dry at the lower lev is. |