Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1925-01-22

were within the bounds of reason
We stood amazed in her presence
and gasped. But even her plan dix
not quite materialize and we wer.
SIS short. Presto! Change! Those
fanciful dreams have vanished
| high hopes and wild ideas taker
wings and flown. Pride has depart
ed and ambition is almost gone.
We seemed to be returning to on
senses. Any old thing that would
go on four rubber tires looked good
to us now, even a Ford roadster.
| Oily tongued agents with demonstra
tions, lies, tried to dissuads
us, but all the good argument seem
ed to be in favor of Henry's Fords
even his puddle-jumper,-and pud-
dle-jumper we got.
One of the best arguments in favor
of Ford, was that there was nc
side door next to the driver to foo
with. That was a good one. Mr.
Ford has been around town enough
to know what too many side-doors
might lead to. Another was that in
case you should run little shy on
gasoline and money at the same
time and you were wanting some
thing else, you could just go and
buy the something else and still de-
pend upon what little gasoline you
had left. Another very important
feature was that certain manufac-
turers were producing a machine
that reduced noise to minimum.
Who in the world would want ma
chine that didn't make noise?
Why, thunderation! Even old farm
ers used to quiet horses wouIdn't
want quiet machine. They'll not
catch Henry on pin-hook like
that. He knows a "rattling good"
thing when he sees it.
When we came in with the little
fool thing" as some called it, there
were side remarks about, 'poor
judgment" extravaganza" and
wonder where he got the money!
ETC., etc. But my! 1t might have
been much worse. What if we had
come in with saxophone?
Having made the purchase, next
came the herculean task of learning
to run the thing. This would be
the supreme task and bring out the
best there was in us. In all
olympian games and contests, to at
tain the highest proficiency, much
attention is given to diet. Someone
has said, "Show me what you eat
and I'll show you what you are
Having considerable knowledge of
dietary rules in general, we thought
it unnecessary to consult DR.. Cope
land on the subject, so we went
ahead and formulated a nice little
balanced ration of our own. 1t con-
sisted mainly of cove-oysters, sar-
dimes, cucumbers and sorghum mo-
lasses. This seemed to just fit our
particular case. Following this
course for ten days we found our
selves coming up so rapidly, not only
in efficiency, but in physical
strength, that we deemed it un-
necessary to confine ourselves longer
to such careful diet, and seeing
that we had plenty of latitude in
which to indulge in some luxuries,
we purchased chunk of bologna to
nibble at between meals.
Later we substituted blind rob-
ms" 1t was now up to us to see
what we could do with one of Ford's
latest productions. Fortunately 1t
was our good luck to get machine
equipped with a self-starter, so
there was. little left to do except to
keep it in the road and get it stop
ped. In the enthusiasm and wild ex-
citement that attended this purchase
We HELL u0t tlABuSuL VI q SOL SA5St Ol q
suitable plaza to keep the car, and
tn ere came Al time when 1t became
necessary t@ put it in the barn
With the doors wide open it looket
easy enough. having done the sam'
with horses many a time. We head
ed for the opening all right. bu
someh@w the critter SHE'D for mo
ment then gave hop, step and jun
and we hollered whoa" but In
stead of paying any attention it plug
| ged right ahead and butted into
pile of hay and was trying to get II
hind-end ahead, and we yelle
l"back-up." eve had learned frol
iteamsters that horses do not kno
y what "back" means, but by addin
/, fae little adverb "up" they unde
mend perfectly. Before we coul
! Monday nother "back-up" the thin
II cross-wise in the bar
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