Show t Q ALONG LIFES LIFE'S TRAIL By ny THOMAS A A. CLARK n. n ol of ilea r lt ot of Illinois CI tG Q o-Q t HI-t CC tty last 1114 V N p p r Union M MODERN DERN INCONVENIENCES I UA HAVE E just had a letter from ruin Watson Watson Wat Wat- t. t son 1100 a rural friend of ot mine who con con- templates III moving ln to town and and knowing knowing know know- ing as at he II does duts that I 1 IllIn am sin au an old settler in my community he asks silks me we to help him find a suitable place In which to live He Ile wishes he lie us SR'S a II medium medium- sized sired house bouse with nil all the modern In- In Perhaps It Is la only a Blip slip of ot the pen for tor he be U II none nune too erudite possibly he be heas w was as ae serious In what he lie heald said ald In to either case cUlle I understand understand under under- stand him him There Is a n good deal leal sold said on occasion occa I lon don concerning the discomforts and privations which our pioneer ancestors the suffered d- d the meagerness of heat bent and and light and means of ot communication with the outside world with which h they had bad to put up and the almost complete com com- i Itte lack tack of ot modern machinery ram Iam not at all nil sure that thaI the hardships hardships hard hard- ships of at modern modem life lite RIP ale any less leal severe ere than those my grandfather suf suf- No 1 tuna who has a telephone ne In his hll ho house e hils has hns any chance hance for uninterrupted leisure day or night It was Will raining this afternoon I could not go out I was S alone so 10 I 1 decided to do a little construction work In the base- base anent ment I had only settled down to business hll when I heard lIard the time telephone U ll At first I decided to tea ignore It It but hilt then thOn It might be Important Im- Im so I rushed upstairs almost breaking In my neck In an Attempt to get Rel there before the caller rang off ott only h tv find nod that the operator had tad culled t tie e wrong wrung number I 1 nm am not nt at nil all convinced that the man who Invented In tl tIc Me e telephone conferred an Rn unmixed blessing upon humanity Electric s s are wonderful but we wa had to to the time old can can- lIlts dies them the other night while the time local loal dynamos weir being repaired Water and 1 automobiles anti oil on heat hent- lUS lg plants bring time their lr Inconveniences which sometimes 11 outnumber O their forts I rt recently looked through n a modern kitchen and In n ft friends friend house bouse equipped with th every sort of la lit lit- Kin bor-Kin saving bur Ing d dk device k f It would take a graduate of an engineering college to M operate the Ile ll Ine Intelligently T ordinary or mild would electrocute tier her herself self tire The first 1 lay Pimp he were turned tamed 1 fi tIr m h p- p 1 I believe W Watson was when he 1 referred to the lime house hous filled with all aU mo modern modern |