The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1919-07-26

| their horses In the alleys. Darkies
always prefer to gossip In shouts In
stead OF Whispers and they feel that
profanity, unless IL be vociferous, Is
almost worthless. Horrible phrases
were caught by early rising children
and carried TO older people for defini-
ton, sometimes az lnopportune mo-
ments: while less investigative chill
dren would often merely repeat the
/ phrases In some subsequent furry OF
agitation. and yet bring about conse-
quences so emphatic rs 10 be recalled
with ease In middle life.
They have passed. those darby hired
men OF the Midland town. The
stables have been transformed into
other likenesses. or swept away. like
! the woodsheds where were kept the
stovewood and kindling that the "girl"
and the .'hired man. always quarreled
over: who should fetch H.
| So with other vanishings. There
were the little bunty street cars on the
long, single track that went it's
! troubled way among the cobblestones.
At the rear door Of the car there was
no platform. but step where passen-
| gers chung In wet cumps when the
weather was bad and the car crowded
The patrons-if not too absent-mlnded
put their fares into slot: and no
| conductor paced the heaving floor, but
/ the driver would rap remindingH with
his elbow upon the glass of the door
TO his little open platform IL the nick
els and the passengers did not appear
to coincide in number. A lone mule
drew the car, and sometimes drew II
| of the track, when the passengers
/, would get out and push II on again.
They really owed IL courtesies like
this. for the car was genially accom-
modating; a lady could whistle 70 II
from an upstairs window, and the car
would halt ut once and walt for her
while she shut the window, put on her
hat and cloak, went downstairs. found
an umbrella, told the girl" what TO
have for dinner. and came forth from
| the house.
They even had time to dance
square dances" quadrilles and Ian
GERS" they also danced the 'rac-
quette" and schottlsches and polkas,
and such whims as the Portland
| fancy" They pushed back the sliding
doors between the "parlor" and the
sitting ROOM" tackled down crash
over the carpets. hired few palms
In green tubs, stationed three or four
Italian musicians under the stairway
In the "front halr'--and had great
nights!
Keeping open house." was merry
| custom; IL has gone, like the alI-day
! picnic In the woods, and like that pref
test of all vanished customs. the sere-
| made. When n lively girl visited the
town she did not long 90 unserenaded.
though visitor vas not indeed needed
10 excuse a serenade. or summer
night young men would bring an or
chestra under pretty girls window
or II might be, her fathers, or that
OF an aiIlng maiden aunt-and flute.
harp, cello, cornet and bass viol would
pleasantly release 10 the dulcet stars
such melodies as sing through you'll
Remember Me-" 81 Dreamt That I
| Dwelt In Marble Halls" "Silyer
Threads Among the Gold" kathleen
Mavourneen," or "The Soldiers Fare
we'll"
! Croquet and the mildest archery
ever known were the sports OF people
still young and active enough for so
much exertion; middle age played
euchre. There was theater, next
door TO the Anderson hotel, and when
Edwin Booth came for n night every
body who could afford 10 buy ticket
was there. and all the "hacks" In town
were hired. 1.-THE Black Crook also
filed the theater. but the audience
then was almost entirely OF men, who
looked uneasy as they left for home
when the final curtain fell upon the
shocking girls dressed as fairies. But
the theater did not often do so well
the people OF the town were still too
thrifty.
They were thrifty because they were
the sons or grandsons OF the ''early
: settlers" who had opened the wilder
ness and had reached II from the East
and the South with wagons and axes
and guns, but with no money at all.
The pioneers were thrifty or they
would have persisted: they had TO
store away food for the winter. or
goods TO trade for food. and they
often feared they had not stored
enough--they left traces OF that fear
In their sons and grandsons. In the
minds OF most OF these. indeed. their
thrift was next 10 their religion: 10
save. even for the sake Of saving, was
their earliest lesson and discipline. No
matter how prosperous they were they
could not spend money either upon
art" or upon mere luxury and enter
tainment, without n sense OF sin.
Against SO homespun a background
the magnificence OF the Ambersons was
as conspicuous as brass band at
funeral. Major Anderson bought two
hundred acres OF land at the end OF
National avenue; and through this
tract he built broad streets and cross
streets: paved them with cedar block.