Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04
THEY DON'T DO NOW AS THEY
USE TO Do.
BY J. o. BOOTH.


In the cycles of time many changes are wrought
New means and new methods are eagerly sought
While most of these changes the nation exalt.
A few display Judgment most clearly at fault.
Our forefathers teach that in earlier days.
They never rode out in a buggy or chaise;
But for business or pleasure, whenever they rode
The back of the horse was the place for its load
The farmer the merchant, the doctor the priest,
Always rode, if at all, on the back of his beast,
And danes rode to market on gentle old nags,
With their butter and eggs in the quaint saddle bags
"Young America now drives out with span
And carriage of very elaborate plan
OF earthly achievements he ranks as supreme
The glory of driving "TwoForty" team.
OF the schools of the past it not feature
For great boys and girls as large as the teacher,
To be "ealed-up" and fogged in no gentle way,
For a breach of rules, neglect to obey.
When out of the school each pupil was taught
To abide by such rules as all children ought
'To all whom you pass, going to and from school,
Make courteous bow" the school teachers rule.
When person passes group of school boys,
He makes haste to escape from their hideous noise,
For the conduct of scholars to him is well known,
And instead of bow he looks out for a stone.
If scholar gets switched for refusing to mind,
His parents, of course, think it very unkind;
And, to notice this fact, the teacher is called,
This child wasn't sent to your school to be mailed"
hundred years past the young men were few,
Who dared under age, tobacco to chew,
And did the venture the wild weed to smoke,
The puritan father his habit soon broke.
Now, onehalf the urchins, in country or town,
nlra o1,a hoth o,,I alxrof frpu
Receive from their parents who seem to admire
This counterfeit honor to which they aspire.
Parents kept the child under proper restraint
1t taught to obey with word of complaint;
But selfish and cruel, are parents now styled,
Who obey not. at once, the command of their child
Boys used to be boys till they grew to be men,
And were younger at twenty than boys at ten,
They kept at their books at honest trade
And the parent took note of the progress they made
| When the youth reached the age befitting beau,
| And thought he must have him sweetheart in tow
| He modestly needed his parents request,
| And courted the maiden his mother thought best.
! In homespun apparel the style of his day.
| He went Sunday night in roundabout way,
| To the home of the lass he liked to spark"
| And bashfully entered as soon as twas dark.
| With bushes, and stammers and crest-fallen air,
| He requested the damsel his fortune to share,
| She asked him to state to her father his PLAN
| Who seldom demurred if he liked the young man.
Now, the youth of sixteen pomatums his curls,
Sports when he walks and sits up with the girl
Beaux them around in the evening to concerts an
| shows
Drives them out pleasant Sundays to show their goo
clothes.
He speaks of his friend as his crony" his pal"
And pronounces his sweetheart "that jolly old galn
He talks of "gin cock tails" mint julips' and
! "smes"
And of how many glasses of lager he "spies"
He speaks of his father as the boss" or 'old man"
And savs LET him enchre this annn if he aan-n
| If reproved by his mother for foies of his,
He tells the "old woman" to 'just mind her biz
| He parades tall hat and close fitting kids,
And rivals the camel in the size of his quids,
In polish he fancies mortals can match him,
And scores of young ladies dying to catch him
Time was, when the maiden in labor skilled,
And in housekeeping duties thoroughly drilled
And ladies then felt commendable pride,
If their skill in the kitchen never denied
Few ladies at present, are willing to soil
Their delicate fingers with housewifey toll;
And country bred ladies esteem it genteel
Their knowledge of life on the farm to conceal:
Like boarding school miss, who a short time ago
Was passing farm yard, at eve, with her beau,
When the milk maid she spied, just milking her CO
And she thought 'twould be nice to plead ignoran
now.
80, wonder of wonders! Can it possibly be,
That that is the manner of milking" said She
''Why always supposed, with no sort of doubt,
They took hold of the tail and pumped the milk on