The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-06-01

Ing The world was prosperous and
business rushing. 1t wouldn't have
taken man half an hour 10 raise the
capital TO start corner grocery.
Chaps who were rated as just common
wore diamond shoe buckles, and chaps
who were way up In G. had pearls
set into the wheels of their carriages
Corsets were advertised, and there
was n rush that lasted for three
months. Husbands stood by and grin
ned. but It didn't turn out to be grin
ming matter. There came panic to
make even kings tremble. You couldn't
go ten feet without finding man who
was dead broke and figuring on how
10 send his mother-in-la home. Things
were so bad that when a great lord
went to buy three heads of cabbage in
the London market he was refused
credit until he could realize on his
palace. The women, again--the wo-
menl
"Our American panic of 1912 was
brought on by the women rushing for
hoopskirts. In three months they had
the country so fiat broke that the pres
ident himself had to sit down to john
nycake and fried pork for dinner and
was glad to get 1t.
"It was the family album that bust
ed the country in 1885. II was the
wax flowers under glass cases that
busted it again in 1853. In 1866 we
had the autograph album rush. Every
woman in the land wanted from three
to ten. The country was making
money hand over fist, but it couldn't
stand the strain. The panic of 1893
was brought on I'm just the same sense
less way. The clocked stockings came
out, and the women rushed for them
seventeen clocks TO stocking and not
less than FIVE pairs to woman. The
plain stocking went, and the clocked
ones came i'm, and down tumbled n hun
dred banks and the prosperity of the
country.
I'VE now come down TO the year
1907. Was country ever more pros
porous for fifteen years preceding this
panic - money here, money there,
money to burn? 1t was no trick at all
for me TO count up $3.50 receipts at the
door. If n man wanted to build
| wood shed TO his house, forty different
capitalists gathered in his front door
yard TO offer him the money. If you
wanted an auto, all you had to do was
10 step into place and select one and
tell the man to charge 1t to Jones.
In Times Gone BY.
"Any old railroad, beginning any
where and ending anywhere, could
raise loan of $30,O0OOO0. All a man
had to do was to dig a hole in the
| ground somewhere and claim he had
silver mine and the people rushed to
buy the stock. People didn't wait for
| anything less than a dollar in change
Everything was stepping high and we
were all getting rich when the wash
erwoman sleeves were invented for
| shirt waists. Every woman went
around bare armed until her arms
were sunburned and baked and free
kled and fly bitten and then demanded
something to cover them up.
"Then came the shoulder high kid
gloves, costing from SO to so a pair.
There was grand rush, and at the
end of three months It was the old
story over again. You couldn't raise %
cents on II twenty-five dollar bulldog.
Times are growing better, but we are
not out Of the woods yet.
"Womcn Of Pilgrims Crossroads,
and through you women of America,
the duty devolves upon you to save
this country from future panics. The
men are helpless The world looks to
you, and to you alone. There Is rush
for rats with which TO pile your hair
upon your head until you look like
muley cows grazing over fence.
Stop the rush!
"rhe wasp waist Is coming into style
again. II YOU don't want TO see banks
tumbing like houses Of sand, pass the
wasp waist by with icy .demeanor.
The woman that would not be left
out of the social swim must have a
lake and Sondola. Beware Of the
lake: panics lurll Mt its bottom. Be,
ware Of the gondola; mortgage fore
closures follow In its wake.
ut Is advertised as a sign of blue
blood that woman must lead dog
around. Beware of the dog; bank.
ruptcy wags at the end of his tail.
1T Is the time when economy must
reign Make your own soft soap. Turn
your dresses top to bottom. Make your
old hats do for another year Fix
over your own dresses and do your
own housework, and as your husband
sits by the fircside smoking his twenty
five cent cigar and wondering how he
will raise the mortgage on the home
bid him hope that the sun of prosper
ity will shine again and all be as be
fore" NJ. QUAD.
WAY BRIDGET VIEWED IT.