The Delta independent., 1908-06-26

| ~Ao' S "0ilu was pEtSpeTOuS anu
business rushing. 1t wouldn't have
taken a man half an hour to raise the
capital to start a corner grocery.
Chaps who We're rated as just common
wore diamond shoe buckles, and chaps
VINO We're way up in G. had pearls
set into the wheels of their carria ges
Corsets were advertised, and there
was rush that lasted for three
months Husbands stood by and grin
ned, but 1t didn't turn out to be grin
nlng matter. There came a panic to
make even kings tremble. You couldn't
go ten feet without finding a man who
was dead broke and figuring on how
to send his mcther-in-law 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-
men!
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 it.
1T was the family album that bust
ed the country in 1885. 1t was the
wax flowers under glass cases that
busted 1t 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 1t couldn't
stand the strain. The panic of 1893
was brought on in 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 n woman. The
plain stocking went, and the clocked
ones came in, and down tumbled hun
dred banks and the prosperity of the
country
I'VE now come down to the year
1907. Was a country ever more pros
porous for fifteen years preceding this
panic - money here. money there,
money to burni 1t was no trick at all
for me TO count up $3.50 receipts at the
door II a man wanted to build
wood shed to his house, forty different
capitalists gathered in his front door
yard 10 offer him the money II you
wanted an auto, all you had to do was
to step into place and select one and
tel the man TO charge it to Jones.
In Times Gone BY.
ANY old railroad, beginning any
where and ending anywhere. could
raise loan of 100000 600. 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 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 $40 a pair.
There was grand rush. and at the
end of three months II was the old
story over again. You couldn't raise %
cents on a twenty-five dollar bulldog
Times are growing better, but we are
not out of the woods yet
Women 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
mulley cows grazing over fence
Stop the rush,
The wasp waist is coming into style
again. II You don't want TO see banks
wasp waist by with icy demeanor
The woman that would not be left
out of the social swim must have a
lake and a gondola. Beware OF the
lake: panics lurk at its bottom. Be
ware Of the gondola; mortgage fore
closures follow in its wake
1t 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. Fiv
over your own dresses and do your
own housework and as your husband
sits by the fireside 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.