Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-05
Fashions Of Bygone Days.
tharine P. Fuller in the Springfield Republican.

Perhaps no one has ever counted
among modern Improvements the lit
tie compressed yeast cake which may
be bought any day of the week at any
grocery store, but not long ago, while
reading recipe for good old-fashioned
raised cake, 1 found that it called for
zane cup distilled yeast" Straight
way seemed to hear the voice of Aunt
Miriam Bong since gathered to the
saints-as she said: There's the
empt'ins man. You run out, child,
and get me copper's worth" The
command involved trip to the pantry,
where the milk money was kept in a
cup on the shelf, the hasty throwing OF
shawl over ones head, and then
followed a headlong start for the
street, lest the yeast man, whose hear
ing seemed never to be very acute
should get away beyond recall. AS II
Jared forth, divers other beshawled
female figures were to be seen adj
vancing or retreating, holding their
shawls under their chins with one
hand and carefully steadying their
yeast cups with the others. Where the
estate was large enough to support a
driveway around to the back door,
the yeast man drove in with consider
able flourish and ciangor of his bell.
and for those affiuent mortals who
took two coppers' worth he plunged
his small dipper twice into the foam
ing mixture, and preserved an unsur-
passed gravity of demeanor. OF
course, there are many people who
use still yeast today, but the gener-
al exodus to the cart ON two days of
the week is thing of the past. Find
me the child who wouldn't be COM
pletely dumbfounded if told to Run
out and get a copper's worth of empt'
ins!" In the first place, the copper is
almost as extinct as the dodo, and the
contraction of the word emptyings has
passed, along with the dear old people
who used it so innocently.
These simple thoughts about yeas.
caught on reminiscent mood, and it
struck me rather forcibly that when
we look back, even into the middle
distance, as it were, we are shocked |
to find how many things we remember
that some of those around us would |
find utterly strange; things that are
thank heaven, quite old enough to be i
classed with the positive antiquities, |
but which have gone, probably never
to return in their original hideousness. |
Science, good taste and common sense !
n viz th<N.
so much that we blindly admired, or
used, or were constrained to wear,
even so late as the early '70s or SOS.
Come with me, little beginning-of-
the century girl, and see if you can
name some of the auntys mot grand
mass attic relics. What do you call
this remnant of a gray flannel skirt,
striped around with the primary col
ors? That, my dear, in its original
entirely, was a balmoral-we always
accented the last syllable, with high
disregard for Scotland's royal castle
This is Garibaldi waist, so long on
the shoulders that it would feel now
as if it were dropping off. What an
insult TO the Italian patriots memory
to wear one today! But we used to say
I'm going to put on my
Garibaldi." Does it seem as if these
congress CATERS ever looked stylish?
Probably they did, to have been so
much affected. You don't remember
when buttoned boots were rather new,
and very, very-well. we didn't say
swell then but we meant an equiva-
lent. When machine sewed on the
buttons for us, without extra charge,
1t seemed as If the evolution of the
shoe had been rapid. I wonder if you
wouldn't feel like veritable goose If
you had to wear white cotton stock
ings all the time. though believe they
are now the fashion again: but they
were all the prevailing style and all