Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-15

"Ain,t you most done?" sTurn ahead,
sonny, and you may kiss my gal Gym
thia.n Kiss my gal Cynthia; bah! I
would just as soon kiss one of our cows!
"My gal Cynthia" was as homely as
sin and as mean as homely. Now my
readers may say the girl could not help
her looks. Perhaps she could not, but
know she could have combed her hair
and wiped her nose; she could have
done that much TO help her looks.
have seen girls and women that were
naturally plain featured, yet they had
the gift or faculty of making themselves
look lovely. A few artistic touches
here and there add greatly to a PERSONS
appearance. 1t is not the piling on of
rich material, regardless of quantity,
that gives grace to PERSONS appear
ance. There is a fitness of things. l
often see men that would be real good
looking if they would spare few mo-
ments in trimming the hair and beard
with comb and brush as we say,
primping up Iittle-and it costs moth
lug. L haye seen people in my life that
said it was wrong to do such things.
t was giving away to pride and pride
is sin. Well, / don't think there is
any sin in trying to keep the body in
as good shape as God gave it to us, and
if cleanliness is next to Goodness. I
don't think they will gain much by
their dirt.
Now to go back to the water shops.
There is where saw one of the first
axes made by machinery. Two young
men by the name of Morgan got the
idea they could use the water power
for hammering out axes, and they soon
added grindstone and an emery wheel
for finishing up the axe. After they
had succeeded in their attempts, they
set up large axe factory near Hart
foru, under the care of the Collins
brothers and named the axe the Col
Inns axe. Now you can find axes at all
the stores in the country, and sharp,
without having to spend whole day
to get it to cut, and so it was with ev-
erything-all made by hand, and when
boy was indenfured as an apprentice
it called for seven years. service, and at
the end of seven years it was supposed
that that young man understood all
the ms and out of the trade; that he
could make any and everything in that
line of business, from a shingle nail to a
stage coach. 1 can remember seeing
the carpenters using gimlet to bore
the holes to drive the nails in to fasten
the weather-boards on the house or the
shingles on the roof, for those nails
were made square and tapering from
the point back and would split the
board or shingle if there was no hole
made for the nail, and nails in those
days cost money. You could not get
nails for two or three cents per pound
as now, and if person tore down a
building every nail was saved; if crook
ed it was Strengthened and usel again.
Every old board or piece of timber that
found its way to the wood pile did not
have half a hundred old nails to spoil
the axe, as at the present day; and now
as these young farmers read these lines
L think 1 hear them say, "I'm glad I
did not live in that day" I know it
was slow to what it is now, and the
people who lived then took life just as
comfortable as we do now. They did
not know any better. The trouble now
is we live too fast. We do not take
time to stop and enjoy the gifts and
privileges we have; we want to live
too fast; we want to begin where our
fathers left off,
Now, Mr.. Editor, am one of those
old fogies that can see pleasure in sit
ting on top of the fence and looking at
the crowd as they go rushing past, and
after the crowd has gone on I climb
down and follow on at my leisure, for
they have left the road behind them,
anil I'll sing "Wait for the wagon, for
we.will all take ride" T. p. r.
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