The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-09-20
Mother At The State Fair.

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Mother can see more in a day thai
most women can in a week. think Il
is because she was reared on farm an6
a farmers daughter IL she has'auy sense
at all. sees more than the general run
of girls.
Bright. quick country girls can see
more things to laugh about and have
more fun than any others. In this re.
spect the girls of the small towns come
next. City girls miss lot of whole
some. everyday joy. A bunch of
country girls can go to the State Fair
and get barrels of pleasure, while the
city girls stay at home, waiting to go
to moving picture show to see some
tragedy reproduced and then boast of
the fact that they did not even go to
the fair Just the people at the State
Fair are a moving picture show them.
selves. They are alive with life and
laughter and excitement They are
out for jolly time aud all who join
them have it. Mother said she never
was in such a crowd as was there We'd
nesday.
So many home folks from Meade
county as we'll as Breckenridge to chat
with and talk over things" Dad
pulled her away from the hogs and pigs
BY the hardest, to hear Governor Mar
shall, of Indiana. She was charmed
with his personality and his sincerely
Mother is right good in sizing up the
man-and makes no difference whether
he is a Democrat or a Republican, a
Methodist or a Baptist, beau or a
r sher-she knows whereof she speaks.
She enjoyed the show of horses and
cattle. There was the finest little Jer.
sey there, broad enough across her
back for a baseball diamond. Talking
about cows, mother said last year aunt
Emma Fairleigh went to the fair with
some of her friends and they saw man
milking. Aunt Emma remarked she
wished she had dollar for as many
times as she had done that. Her friends
declared she couldn't. To prove to them
she asked the man to let her show the
women what she could do. Aunt Emma
rolled up her sleeves and milk maid /
could not have excelled her. Aunt
Emma said: Eyes, l can milk COW
and l am proud of it. l am proud of
anything know how to do"
BY the way, mother saw Mr.. Walter
Norman, Jr., of Glen Dean, in the
Judges ring and pointed him out as a
Breckenridge county man. Mr.. c. Vic
Robertson was also a Judge of the |
horses.
And such horses! Pharaoh's could |
not have matched them. The horses
from the Lafayette Stock Farm of
Indiana were great and the harness
they wore was magnificent. The draft
horses of Frank Fehr's-the beer man
were beauties. Mother called them
Frank Brewers horses
She never saw as much junk (jewelry.)
They were selling diamonds Gmita-
tions) for Sc, as large as the end of
your thumb and the saleslady said you
couldn't tell them from $500 stones.
And people bought them, but the fool
killer was not there. Had he been, he
would have certainly been busy, es-
pecially where they had that cider mill.
There was an old fashioned cider mill,
but the man wasn't selling old fashion
ed cider. If you looked long enough
you didn't have to buy any to learn it
vas not the real stuff. Mother said the
nan had a barrel of apples at the mill,
out not a single one did he ever use.
lie made a racket with stick and pan
or something) to make people believe
lie was grinding apples and making the
ider right there. He sure fooled most
II the crowd, but fortunately all of the
rowd were not fools.
The Floral Hall made her head swim
too much in there for my mother I
'he became very much interested in $
he Canadian display. Canada is doing {
ONE extensive advertising in the I
United States. You know they have {
isplays to persuade people to go to
canada to live. What impressed her &
most there were the vegetables. They |
row celery root something like /
urnip. 1t is very delicious for salads. ,
The display of stoves attracted
Mildred wants a new
ook stove. They showed stove that
ad the oven up high; you don't have
D stoop to put the biscuits in and it
as glass door so you can watch the
axe bake. Every woman who cooks
eserves such a stove. !
Mother came home with an ambition
she always does. Now she wants c
nough money to pay the expenses of
very boy and girl in Breckenridge
ounty to the State Fair next year so ;