The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-11-26

followed CLOSE to nature, and did not
try artificial means as q substitute
for natural welfare. 1t was very. IN
common to Q a young person wear
ing glasse- or carrying a cane. /
was not the fashion to a mus
tache in the first half of the century.
Gambling, that is, card playing,
was probably INDUCED in as much a
hundred years ago as now. The
great stakes by which vast fortunes
are won and lost are in the Stock
Exchange, as in New York or
Chicago. Millions in wheat, corn,
lard, bacon, sugar, railroad stock or
any other values T put up and
swept from the board with as much
nonchalance as an old. timer would
have entered the ring of a shooting
match. The world moves and every
one is eager to keep up with the pro
cession.
DUELLING WAS COMMON.
Duelling was the fashion able way
of settling a difficulty in the early
years of the nineteenth century. It
prevented ~qUarrelling to a great ex-
tent. The matter in dispute was
quickly adjusted when "coffee and
pistols for two" we're ordered If ex-
plantations were not sufficient to sat
isfy the belligerents, the details
were left to their respective seconds,
and whatever they agreed upon was
final, from which there was no ap,
peal.
FLOWERS.
1t appears from reading and ira
ditional history that sentiments had
no place in the first part of the IN
fury that has so recently taken it's
place in the past. Then the wilder
ness was to be subdued, a living was
to be obtained, churches and school
houses we're to be built for the peO-
pie, and there was little time TO in
dulge in sentiment. The s~ubstantials
in life claimed their first attentions.
The aesthetic idea had not been Civ
en- a place, if ven the word had
been coined fifty or more years ago.
1t is a growth of the later civiliza-
tioE and was not dreamed of when
the country wa young. 1t is now
heard with all is adOrnments and is
emphatically one of the fixtures of the
century. Flowers are undoubtedly
the emblem of sentiment and eX
press the meaning so plainly shat
it is impossible to mistake their pUr.
pose intended. They are now used
to decorate the graves of our dead
typical of the bright Easter mOrn
when the Savior of the world arose
from the dead and gave joy TO all
the world. Flowers woven in chap
lets of love intertwined with orange
blossoms decorate the blushing
bride as she Is led to the marriage
altar to take the vows of wifehOOd
And when one of our great men
meets his fellow citizens TO discuss
the great political questions of the
day, vast bOquets are showered upon
him TO express the approval of the
people. The classes of boys or
girls, when they come forward for
graduation, are also covered with
flowers by kind friends. the sacred
desks of our churches are often
banked with e~vergreens and beauti-
full flowers. The young ladies are
often the bearers of huge boquets of
flowers to church or parties, while
young gentlemen display a button
air.
This is a beautiful custom and is
only in keeping with the civilization
of the twentieth century.
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These are some of the changes in
our ann of living that have &C
Cured to mo in my reminiscent
moods. l hope that some of the
young readers of The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER have been interested in
what l have written regarding them.
THE END
TRIED TO BE o SMART.