The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-14
THE CHANGES OF
ONE CENTURY
Miracles of Science and lnven.
ton Wrought Since
1910.
PROGRESS HAS BEEN RAPID
The Wonder Is How the Mothers
Did So Many Things
in Those Days.

A hundred years back may seem
long while ago, but when you remem-
Der that there are men living today
whose fathers saw General Washing
ton, a century does not seem so long
a while after all And up TO the time
of Washington 100 years did not mean
very much to the human race.
The world moved very slowly. When
Washington died, in 1893, people were
using the same kind of appliances and
doing the same things in the same
way that they did in 1899 and even in
1899. In former years if man could
have returned to earth at the end of
100 years he would not have been
very much surprised at any of the
changes that had taken place during
his absence.
But if Washington or Franklin. or
even Thomas Jefferson. who died less
than a century ago, were TO come
back to earth now he would not know
where he was.
The world has changed more in the
last 100 years than in any 1000 years
that have gone before.
To get some idea of the wonderful
changes that have taken place let US
go back to Thanksgiving day in 1910
and note how many. many things our
great-grandparents did not have
which we have today. 1t will not only
astOnish US, but it will also make us
realize how much we have TO be
thankful for, says the St. Nicholas
Magazine.
In the first place, there was no
Thanksgiving day in 1910, except in
New England. 1t was only little
over forty years ago that the people
all over the United States began TO
celebrate the day. Before that, if one
did not live in Boston or very close to
it. he probably would never have
eaten a Thanksgiving dinner. But
even those who were fortunate
enough to live in New England did
not have anything like the variety of
good things for dinner that we have
today. of course, they had turkey
and pumpkin pie and onions and
cranberry sauce and potatoes; but
they did not have tomatoes or corn
or peas or string beans or beets or
asparagus or any of the other canned
vegetables that we are accustomed to
eating during the winter months.
There were no canned goods of any
kind. There were no tin cans. Neither
were there any cars to bring fresh
fruit and vegetables-li1e strawber-
ries and tomatoes and lettuce-frOm
the south and from California.
In fact there were then no such
places in the United States as Florida
and Texas and California. They We're
all Of them waste places or foreign
lands They belonged TO England and
Spain and France and Mexico.
Oranges, bananas. pineapples.
grapefruit, olives, malaga and other
tropical fruits which are so familiar
TO all of US, were never seen in the
markets of 1910. Boys and girls OF
that day only heard about them from
travellers or read of them in books.
Dinners were cooked in fireplaces.
There were no ranges. There were no
gas stoves, no cook stoves of any kind.
Housewives had no baking powder.
no yeast cakes no self-rising flour, no
graduated sugar no fiaVOring ex-
tracts. no ground spices, no cocoa, no
ported meats, no catsup, no prepared
breakfast foods. no soda crackers, no
macarOni.
All the coffee had TO be roasted and
ground at home. Housewives then
had very few Of the conVeniences that
they have today. They had no running
water in the house or stationary
washtubs or clothes wringers or wash
ing machines or wire clothes lines.
Neither had they refrigerators or
ice cream freezers of eggbeaters or
waffle irons or meat grinders or car
pet sWeepers or ammonia or boraX or
gasoline or mOthballs or f1ypaper or
fly screens. And they had no matches.
and they had no electric lights or gas
lights, and no kerosene.
There were no sewing machines in
1910. All clothes were made by hand.
There were no ready-made things Of
any kind, not even shoes or hats
all