| Show 14 I ITHE THE THE THE- Eye fint's Ants Ant's Eye Vie View I I IB By B si MACOne MAC One ODe i J of f my t favorite young young mothers came came Into the r g store wi ll J was standing there and Dd aired d tor tar a a pacifier I I I whether hether it was for tor her bar or the baby b and she laughed and s said saidU ld M Jt U wall I for Jor r both bola v. v 4 ff tf it keeps keps the baby from v a it helps help me me just as I much she ahe said After Afler she left lett I remarked la III a I reminiscent mood I 1 wonder whatever happened to sugar sops Everybody und under r 40 looked a aIl Il little tl startled Bit 8 But t n not tS t'S Sylvester Helner Heiner i r. r H HO Ue Is i. even v n q quite te A old than I am They went the way of Old Bitches said Syl lIe He saw that I looked looked a little tUe surprised You dont don't dont know what that is 19 r do do y you uT I C confessed tiu that t I When I was wa i a fw boy haJ We the used to wr wrap p big button u ton ji into nto J wrap a t a apiece apiece piece of of rag rag and p put t It Into a a saucer 0 of of some soma kind d' d dof of oil and andset andset set t fire fire to I It and that thai pro pro- vided Illumination That rat Wai ratan an Old Old Bitch explained Mr r. r I Heiner No Now you you'd d bettt ll the folks folk ab about ut sugar gir tops lOp sops wa was vu A piece ef tf cloth wrapped r p ed tightly around a spoonful spoon spoon- ful tul of or super sugar tied with string aad dl dipped ped Into milk It Jt made de the b best beat t pacifier in history 1 I grew up on em em Nobody under uDder 40 0 0 could remember bet ber such a thin thing Wonder wb wont t thA hA happened S Several eve r a I of ot my newspaper friends have bave been reminiscing in Sn print about the good old days day when there really winters Most Matt of u us agree that winters nowadays no-adaya are pretty tame For Instance Mary Bowring Of the remembers bers bene taking a hot brick wrapped wrap ped in flannel to keep her feet warm In bed Mary was wu just Juet a sissy Iny A quick flip of the feet I pulled the covers cover up from the j foot of the bed and resulted Ina In Ina a cozy neat nest I Hut but Mary wasn't ALL sissy She sat on the open oven door oftie of tri tie kitchen range to dress In the morning Thousands tried that Few stayed long Many's Many the scar scar I still remaining I And Trudy of the Murray Eagle I writes very interestingly of the I big blizzards in Nebraska when j I it took an hour to travel three miles behind the snow plow All of which reminds me ofa of ofa a Nebraska childhood when we could drive a sleigh for miles mil In any direction over the In Invisible invisible In in- visible fences awakening In Inthe Inthe Inthe the morning with the blankets In front of my face lace frozen absolutely stiff with the moisture moisture mois mols ture of my breath and finding a narrow snowdrift two feet high three feet long In the parlor parlor snow snow In an night all blizzard blowing through the keyhole and the tiny crack In n Inthe inthe the door Ah those were the good old days But Dut the best part of ot themIs them themIs Is that we dont don't have to live JIve them again again Mac |
