The Carbon County news., 1930-01-30

I beauty paflOr or having ner Iace u1t-
ed, listening to the radio or attending
dance or bridge party what do
you suppose that good woman is do
ing? You guessed right; she is right
at home rocking herself and loving
her sisters,
But, don't mistake me. | am max
ing no criticism of lodge as such.
They are fine institution and are
doing splendid work. The fact is that
II belong to some of them myself.
Some years ago while located in
town of about 1900 people I belong
ed to some four or five lodges at one
time. My head was yeritable store
house of grips, passwords and signs
and as it was typical lodge town
I had brotherly regard for most of
the men and as l remember it now
| loved practically every adult female
in town.
1t was some task though on busy
Saturday afternoon to go down the
street and keep your signs straight.
Meeting a sister 0riole or a brother
Ape, and wishing to give them the
hailing sign one had to use his head
to keep from giving the high sign of
the Camels or the distress sign of the
Porcupines. But I am getting clear
away from my story.
What I started out to say when I
interrupted myself was, that out
there around Luther and Roscoe live
men and women who never quite got
away from the habits and customs of
their fathers. In the flight of the
years styles changed, women short
ened up their skirts and got their
hair cut and men quit wearing wnisk-
ers and suspenders, but some how or
other the rapidly changing times
wrought no changes in their hearts
and habits. I don't know if any of
them belong to any lodges. Whether
or not they belong to any churches I
do not know but at any rate they
practice Christianity in its true sense.
Possibly their old notions would not
fit in with the modern conception of
Heaven where the saints stand
around in knee britches with golf
sticks in their hands and bobbed hair
ed, lip-sticked angels lou about on
I9fleecy clouds strumming ukeleles, the
/ livelong eternal day. I doubt that
they would be happy thus spending
eternity. You see, they have been
used to- a life Of usefulness and worth
while activity, paying their debts and
their taxes, educating their children
practicing. charitable and being good
to- their rfeighbors.se@ az;i .iaG -
[ That. the men are good to the wife
land that the women are efficient In
sthe culinary art and have an admir-
able amount of patience is attested
when state that is recorded that
tt,~-~S has been but one divorce suit
from that part of the county filed in
the last nine years.
| Four or five months ago one of
them fell sick. He had lived there for
many years and numbers his friends
by his acquaintance. Did he appeal
to the Red Cross or the visiting
nurses association? He did not. He
didn't need to. What happened was
that Saturday night came and sever
al Of his neighbors met in Anderson's
store while doing their trading. The
word went around that q neighbo1
was sick. Did anyone ask who the
sick committee was? No. Neigh
bors don't have sick committees. The
brotherhood Of man is one organiza
tion that has no such commercializet
frills. Neighbors deem it privileg,
and not duty to visit the sick. Il
that case arrangements were made t,
see to 1t that that neighbor and tina
neighbours interests would be look
ed after without any great hubbu1
or formality. They all wanted f.
help. His cattle were rounded u
and shipped for him, his coal wa
, hauled, his hay was stacked and h
had q couple of neighbors with hir
every night, and still has.
: Old fashioned! All, yes, but Deaf
is old fashioned. Heart throbs, an
l friendship and genuine love an
neighborliness have ever been an
will ever be old fashioned. I hav
, a family of children that, somehow o
other, would like to raise in tina
: kind of community. I would lik
:. to have them grow to womanhood an
: manhood with a vast amount of thos
? old-fashioned ideas-those, old-fast
ioned ways, that are so worth Will
u in an age Of pretense and artifice an
i snobbery and tinsel and glitter an
CLEAN.
High-hatedness and snobbishnes
g and prudery are the frail armor c
u the vain and the unmistakable badg
I of the fool. Real sincerity and helI
I fulness and brotherly love and ger
: uine virtue and integrity are a fe'
+ Of the the things that are really wort
/ while in this world. The example sc
by the citizens aforementioned
e worthy of wide emulation.
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