The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-09-09

Uncle Tobey,'' in The Rockingham Post.
Much has been written about the
old fashioned girl but not half
enough has been said. There are
few, however, left, and to that few
your Uncle Tobey takes off his hat.
The Scriptures tell US of a lot of old
fashioned girls, but | want to come
on down nearer home, where we used
to have the real article out in sight
where the public could see it seven
days in a week. The old men and
women who are now living can tell
us something of this old-fashioned
girl; for they were plentiful in their
young days. Fifty years ago clothes
did not make the girl. And they
didn't change her shape, though for
that matter her shape didn't need
changing. She was satisfied with the
way God had finished her, and didn't
try to make herself look like grass
hopper with a toad-stool hat on.
Neither did she keep a fellow guess
ing at her morals by the amount OF
bare cuticle she displayed. A girl
who would have worn a bung-hole
shirt waist then would not have been
admitted into good society, and a
sheath skirt would have been pro-
nounced an abomination. A low
neck dress then was low-neck dress
and not a low-bosom dress. The
old-fashioned girl was sensible. She
didn't try to crowd a number 5 foot
into a number 2 shoe.
The old-fashioned girl would take
eight yards OF calico and make her
dress in one day, with needle by
hand: 1t takes eighteen yards of
silk for the new-fangled girl and a
weeks time to:make it on machine.
The old-fashioned girl had consid-
GRAFTON for her parents. She didn't
run around of nights with thin and
expensive clothes on contracting
colds, malaria and doctors bills
while her old daddy lay awake trying
to think OF some way to get money
to keep the FLY on the go. She was
healthy-I mean the old-fashioned
girl, not the filly. She painted her
cheeks with exercise, and put the
dimples there with honest laughter,
and grew fat on happiness.
The old-fashioned girl didn't buy
her complexion at the drug stores
and mixing it with little OF Gods
sweet sunshine didn't hurt it, 1t
wouldn't rub off on your clothes;
I've tried it.
The old fashioned girl was frank,
but not fast, free but not forward,
and she knew her place and knew
how to make you keep yours.
The old fashioned girl was work
er and believed that her mother was
entitled to have a good time occa-
sionally, as we'll as herself. She would
stay at home and make molasses can
dy for the children, while her mother
went visiting and took little rest.
She was satisfied with her home life.
She wasn't always pining for some
thing she didn't need or couldn't
have. A little bit of ribbon went a
long ways with her, and lawn dress
made her eyes sparkle like the SUM-
shine on a dew drop.
There are a few specimens of the
old-fashioned girl left and I hope
there always will be. In some cases
blood is stronger than imperial GUS
tom that is sending thousands of
women to untimely graves and en-
failing untold misery on posterity.
The old-fashioned girl may seem out
of''kilter"for the present times, but for
pure, lovely and supurb womanhood
she is the uncrowned queen. May
God bless her and perpetuate her
kind in posterity.
John Early, the North Carolinian
who was thought to have leprosy in |
where he was quaran-
tined for a year, was granted pen
sion while he was i'll, Early being an
ex-soldier. Now that he has recov-
cred and it is alleged didn't have |
leprosy at all, his pension has been |
discontinued.
While it is a State law and was
rushed over the heads of some of the |
towns, it is fact that if the town
paid no more attention
to the enforcement of the prohibition
laws than do the county officials we |
would not know the law was on the /
Herald.
1t is estimated that on each suit of |
wooden clothing under the new tariff |
we will pay at least $3.50 more than |
we have paid heretofore; $3.50 of |
this amount going into the pockets !
OF the manufacturer. "This is revis-
ing the tariff downward with a ven
geance, says Charity and Children.