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Show In commenting on changes an exchange ex-change truly remarks: Things have changed in the past quarter of a century. cent-ury. Three score years ago the average aver-age boy would go out on Sundav, climb a tree and partake of a Tew quarts ot mulberries and top oil with a pocket roll or giccu apples and salt. The. next morning the mother diagnosed his tiouble as "worms" and he was made to swallow a hair bottle or Prey's vermifuge, a quarter of a pound of Epsom Ep-som salts, and was turned loose In the cow pastuie until supper time when he would come in for a square meal all right. Now If a boy complains or a "stleh" in the side, he has the "ap- j pcndleltls" and is hustled olf to the hospital, starved within an inch of his lire, half a dozen surgeons each take a whack at him with a peail handled knife and he is turned over to his le-latlves le-latlves or the undertaker. |