Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-10
Present Styles of Living Compared with the Past
rwritten sn.ciallr For rhe Rulletin.l ]

Written Specially For The Bulletin.)
 friend who has an unusual talent for discovering rare bits of entertain ment in newspaper columns, sends me the following clipping. It is unsigned and credited to Anon but is manifestly the work of some Louisiana scribe who knows his neighbors and how thy live:
 The average Louisiana farmer gets up early, at the alarm of Connecticut clock, buttons his Chicago suspenders to Detroit overalls. puts on pair of cow hide shoes made in Ohio, washes in Pittsburgh tin basin. using Cincinnati soap, and dries on a cotton towel made in New Hampshire. He sits down to a Grand Rapids table, eats hot biscuits made with Minneapolis flour, Kansas City bacon, and Indiana grit fried in oms- 7s lard, cooked in a St. Louis stove i; ouys Irish potatoes grown in Michiga n, and canned fruit put up in California reasoned with Rhode Island spices claps ,n his old wool hat made in Philadelphia, puts New York harness on a Missouri mule, fed on Iowa corn. and ploughs his arm covered by a Massa chusetts mort ;age. with an Indiana plough
 At night he crawls under New Jer- sey blanket, and Is kept awake by | Louisiana dog. the only home product ,n the place"
 When you've done staggering over this Louisiana farmer and his Louisiana dog in the midst of their imported surround lncs, let's give the situation as revealed a few minutes conversation. Perhaps we may find in 1t seeds for thought.
 True, it is of a Southern farmer way iown near the mouth of the Mississippi hat the parable is preached But are here none iH Maine or Massachusetts or New Jersey or perhaps even in little Connecticut to whom it may applyf
 De te fabuIa,' said some old Esop, 'ointing his finger straight at one of his lquirming auditors. Those three short words are simply terse Latin for This ere fable just told is ostensbly about tome chap a long way off and long since lead. but if the coat happens to fit your shoulders old boy, just pull 1t on and wear it."
 As look out of my window I con sec he untdy edges of a big pile of old tin ,ans which have been tossed behind an outbuilding and are rolling down out of their intended bounds. They. the cans were made in Pennsylvania they held at ,ne time herrings caught in Maine waters ind labelled "sardines" salmon from Oregon and Alaska, peas from New York nate, tomatoes from Maryland. beans rom Michigan with pork from Illinois oineapp,es from the Sandwich Islands >orned beef from Nebraska canned corr rom Iowa. peaches from California dams from Rhode Island and "currant' ielly made in a Boston factory out of Now Hampshire apples etc. etc.
 Somewhat different from the old times ah? Probably most of you can't remeni- per those old times. but I suspect ther' are here and there, shrewd old eyes winkling behind big spectacles, whosC owners. reading this, will hark back sixty or seventy years 10 an entirely If terent style of rural life.
 I can recall the days when farmers al my vicinity, instead of buying tmnet ssrdines and salmon and tuna fish anC obster and the like. got their fish fro9 he brooks-the trout weren't protected 1y the law, then-with an occasional shsd from the river and a slap of salt ,odhsh hanging up in the cellar-way Days when they raised their own porl and beef and corn and beans and neal md tomatoes and had real beans and pea. rom their own currant bushes.
 Every spring, when news arrived thu he shad were running up" some farm r drove to the river twenty-five mile: way and brought back a two-horse wag ,u load of fresh shad which were dis ributed among the sneighbors, for fv 'ents apiece. take 'em as they come some were eaten at once but the greate ,art were salted down, such as mackere fro now salted.
 The system of making the most of To