Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-11-23
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would that person be if not filled
with awe and amazement, and given
Impression that he was being waited
by some unseen power into fan
Itastic realm of wonderland. And
being filled with rapture at the en-
Ichanted scene, you enter one of the
greatest buildings, only to find
yourself in a maze of scientific won
!ders and electrical and mechanical
Appliances, such as has never been
seen or collected before. Of course
| the first thing that catches the
visitors eye are the two tall towers
of the Sky-Ride. But few min
utes later and your eyes are feast
ing on the most marvellous color
scheme that man has ever under
| taken And as the sun sinks low
| behind the city you scarcely realize
that the darkness of night is
spreading over the land until you
| look out over Lake Michigan and
see the lights of some vessel SHIN
mering on the black waters beyond
this enchanted scene.
And what else do we observe, in
the way of progress, as we look over
these old photographs? Dress and
facial appearance. The men, we
observe. are wearing long split tail
coats, with a couple of buttons be-
hind and stove pipe hats are very
much in evidence. Nearly all the
faces had boards, if not a full
beard, burnsides, and if not pair of
these, a handle bar mustache. And
the women, we'll thank our lucky
are not the style now, "Horrifica-
ton" These were the days of
'stern-wheelers.' We refer to
those monstrous wire cage contrap-
tions called bustles. They were
built with an upward trend and in
making the adjustment they prob
ably laid them on table then back
ed up, docked and made fast the
moorings, and then recovered the
equilibrium. And then the dress
with all its frills, fuffery, and fub-
dubbery, required at least dozen
yards to make the fool things. They
We're supposed to hide the body
proper, and then go up several de-
grees northWard to the summit,
(of the bustle) then make a detour
southward and follow the law of
gravitation to the floor and then
spread out over several square feet
Of ground surface, so as to gather
in its wake, all the peanut hulls, or
small dogs, or anything that would
chance to come in the way. Woe
unto that person who would get his
foot into this moving train. Thus
logged up, she could manage to adj
just herself to quite few condi-
tions, outside a Pullman sleeper, or
kitchen. Whenever you hear some
old jade making her decrial of
present day styles just get out one
of those old albums and let them
take fresh look at themselves:
lhat'll settle 'em.
There are other comments we'd
like to make, but this article is al
ready getting too long and tire
some, but among the "57 varieties"
of scenes enacted that many years
ago, we wish to note just one more.
This picture shows a great throng
of people going from the railroad
depot which was built for the ac-
commodation of visitors Just across
from Machinery hall. Perhaps such
sight was not witnessed at
Chicago this year, as we presume
the greatest mass of people went in
automobiles. But the same railroad
; that took us to the Centennial, took
us to Chicago, but we observed a
! great change. Half century ago
we were having the Public be
| D-ed,' days You who are older
| well remember how brusque and
blunt the trainmen were. You
scarcely dared to open your mouth.
But not SO now. No snobbery. You
receive the kindest attention and
courtesy. And here our hat is off
to the street car conductors of
Chicago. A kindlier set of men we
never met. The hour we spent
morning and night going to and
from the fair ground we liked to
hob-nOb with them. In fact every
where we couldn't ask for better
treatment. And now as we revert
to the trip in our minds, instead of
thinking of gunmen, gangsters and
racketeers, we will think of Chicago
as city of big hearted people filled
with brotherly love.-SiIas Thorla.