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Show i BY THE OLD TIMERS From A. M. Roberts, Long Beach, Calif.: I remember while living In the country five miles from where our family doctor lived, and many times I have seen hliri on horseback, and sometimes on foot, trying to make his calls, and often times he would be as much as two or three days late in getting get-ting to our place. I have gone to the swamp, cut some slippery elm bark, brought it in and put some In a glass of water. So when the doctor came he would sit by j the sickbed, cut some pieces of j paper in which he would roll some I quinine. This would then be put in a spoon with some slippery elm and given to the patient. From Thurman A. Smith, Taylor, Nebr.: I remember when (1880) in the upper reaches of the North Loup river valley a frame house was rarely seen. Soddies, dugouts and log cabins were constructed and occupied almost exclusively by the pioneer homesteaders. Many were roofed with dirt and willow thatch, and the floors were of clay and the walls plastered with the same material. From the Old Prospector, Cheyenne, Chey-enne, Wyoming: I remember when harness shops had a larg wooden horse In the front wir.3ow to display the harness, .-' From Mrt. JEs'teUe C. LaughUn, Gerlng,-Keb.: I remember when ngftllnes carried ads for "John . Sdtdina'a Waves, Bangs, Frbues and Switches for Fashionable Ladies." That was the "Hair Age." From Mrs. Kate Harrison, Stanton, Stan-ton, Ala.: I remember when we cooked on the fireplace in ovens and skillets and my stepmother spun thread and made cloth on the loo ox (Send your memories te TL Old Timer, Box W, Ttt&XirX, Kj |