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Show THE GOOD OLD DAYS. Folks must be joking when they refer re-fer to the good old days. Without fcoing back to pioneer times many can recall something about them. We used kerosene lamps which were dirty and required refilling. Now We touch a button. We kept a team .of horses in a smelly stable and fed them three times a day besides be-sides acting as groom. Now we spring the self-starter and away we go on a tireless steed. We split kindling, split wood and carried coal, an'end-less an'end-less job. Now in many cases the heating heat-ing plant is automatic and the cooking cook-ing arrangements are well-nigh perfect. per-fect. Women spent much time making dresses and hats and then they often looked dowdy. Now the stores provide both much more cheaply and much better in every way. Same way with women's clothing of all kinds. Foods, tinned, bottled and packed, are better bet-ter and more . sanitary than in the old days of home preparing. Because of great progress our physical well-being has been improved. improv-ed. Our mental appetites can more easily be appeased. There is something some-thing wrong in the outlook of any person who seems to hunger for the good old days. As the boy on the corner cor-ner said: "That's the balony." Toledo Tole-do Blade. |