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Show If I REMEMBER" . BY THE OLD TIMERS ! 1 From Mrs. William Wedel, Strongs-i Strongs-i Ttlle, Ohio: Do you remember the good old days when a summer tan was a disgrace? The ladies wore mitts to the elbows, carried parasols, para-sols, and oh, the time spent bathing bath-ing the face and hands in a sticky mixture of sour milk and grated : horseradish! Well, I rejoice now In a g6od healthy summer tan. From S. I. McGinnls, Culloden, W. Va.: I remember how happy my father and mother used to be I sitting winter nights around a large wood fire with eight children hulling hull-ing dried beans. j I I From E. E. Meredith, Fairmont, W. Va.: Every family use to have hop vines in the front yard or garden from which the hops j were gathered to make yeast for bread or poultices. j From Amelia Doctor, Denver: I re- j member when the floors in our houses were so cold that the chil- ( t dren had to sit around the stove t and put their feet in the oven to keep them warm. From Jack Cox, Larkspur, Calif.: j I remember the first rifle I ever i saw. I watched Grandad make it. He patterned it after the Kentucky muzzle loading squirrel rifle. I learned to shoot it when I was seven, but the barrel was too heavy ! so he cut off 18 inches. He and I Dad wound their big watches with j keys. They made a sun dial for t mother by sawing off the end of a log and marking the four direc- tions on It. They put a stick in the middle to throw a shadown on large nails for the hours and small nails for the half-hours. I (Mail your memories to THE OLD TIMERS, N.W.N.S., 210 S. Desplaines, Chicago 6, HI.) A person doesn't always grow wiser as he grows older, but he certainly grows older as he grows wiser. Industry is the most successful success-ful form of inoculation against Communism. |