Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-02-24
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A very heavy snow is on the ground.
Once upon a time l was glad to see
big snow come. 1t was such fun to
meet lot of boys and girls and en-
gage in a snow ball battle. Miss Sal
lie Craft liked to have frozen me to
death one time in snow ball battle.
She was about twenty, strong and we'll
muscled. was little over sixteen
and had just begun to strut and gobble
and. thought myself much larger and
stronger than really was, and guess
Sallie had an idea she was the better
man, for she seemed to court test OF
strength. We finally clinched and then
if ever two poor fools struggled for the
mastery it was us two poked snow
down her back, in her bosom, in her
hair, and she did the same for me.
did all could to keep a girl from out
doing me, but she threw me square
fall, and held me in spite of myself,
and / had to give in. Then how the
other girls crowed over me- 1t was
a sight. | was very much taken down
but then, | remembered had first
great cousin that could stand in a half
bushel and shoulder two bushels OF
wheat easy I'll give you her name,
Sallie Smith, Conductor Joe Ayler s
mother, who was killed on the N. G.
& ST. L. r, R. few years ago near
Cowan.
Boys and girls years ago had fine
times snow balling. Now their con-
stitutional makeup is. of such ma
ture and their manner and mode Of
life is such that girl of sixty years
ago was about equal to two in
strength now. 1 believe our close,
air tight houses are not conducive to
robust, healthy constitution, yet |
like to enjoy the comforts of warm
room as much as anybody. Still l
doubt the healthiness of such.
Well, let me see. I begun on snow
balling, didn't 1. and the fun lads
and lasses had years ago before mod
ern modes and fashion invented in
door games and girls learned to play
cards and such like, smoking cigar
cites, chewing tobacco, wearing rats
in their hair and humps on their
backs, etc. Sometime at the close of
the SOS the hoop skirt came into fash
ion, then the ''Dolly Warden style of
dress, then corsets, the curse Of the
female sex, till | doubt whether a
girl could SNOWFALL at all with such a
thing on. You see, | am pretty
close observer of things, and l notice
some that are laced SO tight they are
not comfortable, but, then, of course,
the modern woman will undergo al
most any kind of punishment to be in
the fashion, and these very things are
filling the country up with old maids
and causing quite lot of young men
to become old bachelors, to the detri-
ment of the country. | am sorry for
all the fashionable and stylish young
ladies that have destroyed their elias
ITCHY until they are not supple and
plant. Now, when / was young
man liked girl that could run and
jump fence four feet high, but new
er lid fancy the ones I considered
helpless. Some girls could stand flat
footed, catch the horn of their side
saddle and spring into it as easily as a
Texas Ranger could mount, but they
have got so helpless of late years and
clumsy that I've seen them riding
astride, thing no lady years ago
would have done, another relic of
savagery being fostered-a savage
women rode astride, according to his
tory.
Oh, we'll, girls, you are missing lots
of fun because of modern methods of
style. You can't SNOWFALL as your
hands are too tender and your corsets
too tight. You have your person
bound in chains until it knows moth
ing of real ease and comfort. You
ask old Grandma if "Uncle Tom"
hasn't told you the truth.
UNCLE TOM.