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Show TIMES CHANGE! In 1881 The sugar market fifty years ago averaged 9.66 per pound, 1881. . Fifty years ago women wore hoop skirts, bustles, petticoats, corsets, cotton stockings, (not hose), high button shoes ruffled cotton drawers, flannel night gowns, puffs in their hair, did their own cooking, baking, cleaning, washing, ironing, and raised rais-ed big families, went to church on Sunday and were too busy to be sick. Men wore whiskers, square hats, ascot ties, red flannel underwear, big watches and chains, chopped wood for stoves, bathed once a week, (In summer) and went in for politics, drank ten cent whiskey and five cent beer, rode bicycles, buggies or sleighs, worked twelve hours a day and lived to a ripe old age. StoreB burned coal oil lamps, carried car-ried everything from a needle to a plow, .trusted everybody, never took j Inventory, placed orders for goods a' year In advance and always made money. In 1031 Today women wear silk hose, low shoes, no corsets, and an ounce of underwear, have bobbed hair, ' smoke, paint, powder, drink cock-! tails, have operations, play bridge, I drive cars have pet dogs and go in ( for politics. Men have high blood pressure, wear wrist watches, shoot golf, bathe twice a day, drink poison, play the stock market and ride in aeroplanes, aero-planes, never go to bed the same day they get up, are misunderstood at home pay more attention to other fellows business than his own, talk depression, work five hours a day, play ten, and die young. Stores have electric lights, cash registers, elevators, but never have what a customer wants, trust nobody no-body ,take inventory daily, never buy in advance, have overhead, mark up mark down, quota, budget, advertising, stock control, annual, semi-annual, end of month, dollar day, founders day, rummage, economy econ-omy day sales, and never make money. From San Antonio . a. |