Show ALONG LIFES LIFERS TRAIL by THOMAS A CLARK i dean of 0 men university of M 2 1124 1934 western n union MODERN inconveniences I 1 HAVE just had a letter from watson ason a rural friend of mine who contemplates moving to town and knowing as he does that I 1 am an old settler in my community be asks me to help him find a suitable place in which to live ile he wishes lie says a bedlum sized house with all the modern inconveniences perhaps it Is only a slip of the pen for he Is none too erudite possibly he be was serious in what lie said in either case I 1 understand him there la Is a good deal said on occasion concerning the dis comforts and privations which our pioneer ancestors ancestor suffered the meng meagerness erneRs of heat beat and light and means of communication with the outside world with which they had to put up and the almost complete lack of modern machinery I 1 am not at all sure that the hardships of modern life arg ar tiny any leu less severe than those my grandfather suffered no ano man aiho vho has a telephone lione in his hi house hns hits any chance tor for uninterrupted leisure day or night it was wa raining this afternoon I 1 could not go out ont I 1 was alone so I 1 decided to do a little construction work in the bane bags ment I 1 had only settled down to business when I 1 heard the telephone boll bell jangling at first I 1 decided to ignore it but then it might be im p portent octant so I 1 rushed upstairs almost breaking my neck in an attempt to get there before the caller rang off only to find that the operator had called the wrong number I 1 am not at all convinced that the man who invented the telephone conferred an unmixed blessing upon humanity electric lights are wonderful but we had to resort to the old time candles candies the other night while tile the local dynamos were being repaired water pipes and automobiles and oil heating plants bring their inconveniences inconvenience which sometimes outnumber their comforts I 1 recently looked through a modern kitchen and laundry in a friends house equipped with every sort of la in bor saving device it would take a graduate of an engineering college to operate the machinery intelligently the tha ordinary maid would electrocute herself the first day slie she were turned loose in such a machine shop I 1 I 1 believe watson was right when he referred to the house filled with all modern modem inconveniences |