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Show ONLY TWENTY YEARS AGO Ladies wore bustles. Nobody swatted the fly. Nobody had seen a silo. Nobody had appendicitis. Nobody wore white shoes. And buttermilk was free for the ask ing. Cantaloupes were called muskmelons. You never heard of a "tin-Lizzie" or flivver. Doctors wanted to see your tongue when you were sick. A milk shake was a favorite drink at the restaurants. Nobody cared what the price of gaso"-line gaso"-line was in those days. Farmers 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. Sftrawstacks 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 and he told of it in his writings, The motor car was an unknown thing and the pneumatic tire was considered con-sidered by us as a joke. You stuck tubes in your ears to hear a phonograph and you paid a dime for the privilege of doing it. Ex. n |