Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-24

once a week anyway. Nobody worried
over kilograms for most folks had
never seen one and few expected 10
exer receive one. This ancient is
rather Disguised with things as they
are. The country is going too fast
speed crazy msatistied, as he phrases
it "hellroarn'.'.
When YOU come to think of it no.
body did pay much attention to the
rural mail delivery then or to the con-
di,ion Of the roads or bother much
abou, the river being up unless it got
in on the prairie hay cut the fall before
and left cooked up to be hauled in the
spring. There wasn't much thought OF
whether the telegraph wires were down
and storms didn't interfere with tele-
phone communica ton noticeahly. No
body regretted the state OF the roads
which prevented taking out the auto
mobile. The condition of the winter
roads d!dnt interfere with commerce
because he had hauled in such wheat
as he had Immediately after ii was
threshed and paid interest and the
store bill with the proceeds. Also the
hens weren't laying and the COWS
We're mostly dry.
THIS same old inhaeitant however
grabs the daily paper first. assuming
,ha1 right Of seniority. one of has
grandsous i subsidized to watch for
the carrier and hasten to the old man
with the paper the minute the mail
carrier heaves il in the box. Nobody
50 hugely enjoys sailing to town in a
car as his old ;nhabitant. Nobody in
the whole family goes TO town oftener-
He has many things 20 see 10. He loves
TO walk into the hank in which he owns
stock. this old inhabitant who never
drew check or had bank account
until after he was forty. His scrawnE
cattle and thin hogs are all forgotten
when he gazes on the premium stock
in his sons barnyard He uses the
telephone in and out of season and
glares thru il al central when he IS
Obliged 10 wait for q connection.
The fact IS the old inhabitant Is q
big bluff. Hes a fraud. Hes tickled
to death with the pace and the time.
He loves to be "helsroarin himself.
It's the breath Of his blamed old nos
,rils and he watches every day for
a new sensation and loves i when il
comes. He was the first man on the
Fairgrounds 10 see flying machine
He scans the war news for blood and
slaughter and wants the latest news
right off the bat. Hes a bluff. He
wouldn't go back 70 those bold. manly
days" he bluffs over for a kings ran
som paid every day at quitting time.
Ne, he. and if Re could and did he
wouldn't live four weeks he'd be so
SICK Of it.
When grandpa gets 70 talking listen
and let on that you believe him. rs a
kindness TO the old man. He thinks
he's fool!ng everybody but himself.
The facts Of the matter are that
grandpa bumped himself to keep alive
and hang on 10 the piece Of land ne
was paying for, that grandma never
knew when she could have zen
dress and that she dreamed long years
Of going back home" ard never Went
until they wrote her to come L she
desired 70 see he- mother alive. thai
grandfather himself never went back
until after that year he did 50 well
with the thresh:ns machine. THAI the
boys and girls had clothes enough =
cover them bur mighty rough ones and
that grandma made many & pair OF
aneHl-underwe from four sacks
You notice. don't you that grandma
isn't making any bluffs about the
tov.ality Of that grand old time. Grand
ma knows When she has had enough
SOS the old -ahabitaEt. lies just
;5luifing.