The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-02-18
Some Things That Were Not 100 Years

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Some Things That We're Not 100 Years
Ago.
One hundred years ago wedding tours
were not fashionable.
One nunureu years ago the gin best
known was not the cotton gin.
One hundred years ago there were no
Pacific Railroad subsidies.
One hundred years ago fasmers did
not cut their legs of with moving ma
chimes.
One hundred years ago our mothers
did not worry over disordered sewing
machines.
One hundred years ago horses which
could trot mile in Old were somewhat
scarce.
One hundred years ago there was no
fast mail train between New York and
Chicago.
One hundred years ago there were no
disputes about the impoliteness of street
car drivers.
One hundred years ago people did not
enjoy the inestimable pleasure of growl-
ing about gas bills.
One hundred years ago "crooked"
WhASi1 was nOJ hDOMu. NuT lOTGIuInCIB
took theirs straight.
One hundred years ago university boat
clubs were not entered at pool sales like
fighting cocks in pit.
One hundred GEARS ago every young
man was not an applicant for position
as clerk or book-keeper.
One hundred years ago false teeth
were not considered much preferable to
the original grinders.
One hundred years ago time and tide
waited for nobody, and now nobody
waits for either time or tide.
One hundred years ago kerosene lamps
did not explode and assist women to
shuttle off their mortal coil
One hundred years ago men did not
commit suicide by going up in balloons
and coming down without them.
One hundred years ago there was no
tow path didn't steam up in those days.
One hundred years ago there were no
Turkish harems at Salt Lake, and no
Ann ELIAS suing for the nineteenth part
of divorce.
One hundred years ago England was
not very far behind the United States in
all that goes to make a nation powerful
and progressive.
One hundred years ago young wo-
man did not lose caste by wetting her
hands in dish-water or rubbing the skin
! of her knuckles on wash-board.
One hundred years ago the physician
who could not draw every form OF dis
ease from the system by tapping a large
vein in the arm, was not much of q doc
tor.
One hundred years ago the producer
carried his surplus products to market
on his horse, the products being placed
in one end of the bag and the jug in the
other end.
One hundred years ago our fathers did
not light their pipes with matches, but
carried fire in their pockets in the shape
of piece Of punk, piece of steel and
flint.
One hundred years ago public officer
or other citizen could not steal enough
to make the act respectable and insure
the actor, prominent position in the
" first circles"
One hundred years ago the condition
of the weather on the LIST day of January
was not telegraphed all over the cont
nent on the evening of Dec. 81. Things
have changed.
One hundred years ago people didnot
worry about rapid transit and cheap
transportation, but threw their grain
across the backs of their horses and un-
complaingly event to mill.
One hundred years ago every man cut
his coat according to his cloth-every
man was estimated at his real value
shoddy was not known-nobody had
struck 4" lie and true merit and honest
worth were the only grounds for promo
ton.
One hundred years ago, to tell the
truth, people generally died from natural
causes, while In our day they step out
through steamboat explosions, railroad
smash-ups, hurricanes, earthquakes, cir
cular saws, and in thousand other ways
discovered since the birth of the Oldest
inhabitant. -IOicdo Blade.