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Show &ccxoyo s How It Started By Jean Newton I . J OG0000 "A Crying Evil" HERE Is a term that nas been overworked, over-worked, In these days of Investigations Investi-gations and prosecutions, the reference, refer-ence, in each Instance, of course, being to conditions so shocking that they cry aloud for amelioration. The phrase Itself Is so apt that It has been In constant use In our language lan-guage ever since It was first coined and In the same connotation. Credit for it Is due to Burton who, In his famous work, the Anatomy of Melancholy, first gave It literary sanction. sanc-tion. (lEl. 1931. Bell Syndicate.) WNU Service. padded that a short man wearing one would have been taller If he had stood on his shoulder. I doubt whether the youngster of the future ever will see the enameled shoe, with the cloth top and buttons. I have not In years seen one of those derby, hats with the practically flat crown, Ray Long Insists that there was a man In Indianapolis who had one of those hats with a crown so shallow that he couldn't keep it on his head. He also had a watch chain with links of the size now used for small anchors. Girls In picture hats and ruffles thought it a very handsome ornament Yes, there are a number of things modern youth will never know. Quiet country roads are now wide strips of concrete or macadam. Billboards stand where tall trees once stretched their sheltering branches. The scent of wild flowers Is lost In the odor of gasoline and oil. The horse is vanishing, vanish-ing, but you never can put the whip in its socket, wrap the reins about it, and trust an automobile to keep the road. (cV 1931. Bell Svndlcate.1 WND Service. |