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Show (SO ONLY TWENTY YEARS AGO Ladies wore bustles Nobody swatted the fly. Nobody had seen a silo. Nobody had appendicitis. Nobodv wore white shoes. And buttermilk was free for the asking. Cantaloupes were called muskmelons. You never heard of "tin-lizzie" or flivver. Doctors wanted to see your tongue when you were sick. A milk shake was the favorite drink at the i restaurants. Nobody cared what the price of gasoline was In those days. Palmers came to town for their mail it was not carried to them. The hired girl drew one-fifty per week and was satisfied with it. The butcher threw in a "chunk of liver" when , you bought meat. Nobody listened in on the telephone for there were few telephones. Strawstacks were burned instead of being baled and stored for the next winter. Publishing a country paper was not a business it was run for the editor's health. Jules Verne was the only convert to the submarine sub-marine and he told of it in his writings. The motor car was an unknown thing and the pneumatic tire was considered by us as a joke. You stuck tubes in your ears to hear a phonograph phono-graph and you paid a (time for the priviledge of doing it. Ex. tn |