New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-27

a-doin' to-day tibet wears them spool-heel shoes
an tries walkin' on their toes? An these
hyear suits of apparel the. prophet tells about
means them dresses tibet buttons up the back
an jest materially haint kiverin' fer the body
AN hits insutin' to the Lord fer to be
a-puttin' all this hyear chalk an false face on,
fer, sisters, you air jest like God made you an
when you try to change hits jest a-sayin
to the Lord tibet you know more about how
you ougter look then yore Creator Hits all
right to have a Sunday dress, bat they be
those hit pears like tibet is orderin' finery frun
away OFT yander an ncglecting their souls
salvation
When illustrations of women riding cross
saddle were first discovered by the noun
talneers the divided skirts were so arranged
that they could scarcely be sure that their
wondering eyes actually beheld what thew saw.
And now that catalogues show them in riding
breaches and there can be no doubt. it is not
uncommon to hear mountain man announce
that the "fust one of his gals that tried
caper like thet q get whippin' shore" In
the mountains a father almost never strikes
one of his daughters unless he considers that
she has brought disgrace on the family bv
some indiscretion
The illustrations of the one-piece bathing
suits are regarded as SO obscene that no
"courtln couple" would think of looking at
them together Aunt I.idy said she'd
although them girls would a-had more
shame than to a-had their pictures struck in
tibet garb.'
"hen the menfolks go down to the county
seat TO tend court" which they do as often
as their work will let them, whether thew have
business or not, they sometimes get glimpses
from the outside world that convince them that
the catalogues do tell the truth
The southern mountain lands are co COW
cred with overlapping grants, in an instance
or two going back to the English crown and
many of them issued after the Revolution in
payment to the soldiers, that by the time the
question OF rlghtfu ownership is further COM
plcated by quit claim deeds and right Of nos
session the courts are Away crowded with land
disputes
Old Uncle Jehu Phillips had been having
over this fence corner and that tract of timber
till he got SO old that he wanted to save his
money and his temper and let the rising gen
GRAFTON do the "lawing.' But he still loved the
legal fray and circuit, chancery and county
courts found him present, rheumatism permit
ting. One day he had ridden his old fea-bitten
gray mare into town to court and the morning
passed as usual. He listened to the court pro-
ceedings and nodded wisely in appreciation of
every decision the judge gave.
After dinner he and several of his bewhis
kered crones We're sitting in the courthouse
square when clown the road come old Yves
Parsons grandfather an passel O. girls fruai
off some'ares, tibet wus stoppin' at Parsons
They were on their way to the river and they
all wore bathing suits
Uncle Jehu almost swallowed his tobacco for
the first time in sixty years chewing.
Gentlemen he began gentlemen, I've
saw sights. But hain't never saw nothin' like
tibet. ! seer EN- in the books but never
lowed hit could be So
Uncle Jehu misses half the afternoon ses
sion but he was right there when they came
hack
Cir fro..l abol. twelve te sixteen are the
only ones who spend much tin,e reading about