Thirty years ago eggs were three dozen for 25¢, butter 10¢ a pound, milk was 5¢ a quart, the butcher gave liver and treated the kids with bologna, the hired girl received $2 a week and did the washin’, women did not powder and paint (in public), smoke, vote, play poker or shake the shimmie, men wore whiskers and boots, chewed tobacco and spit on the sidewalks and cussed, lunch was free, laborers worked 10 hours per day and never went on a strike, no tips were given to waiters and the hat check grafter was unknown, a kerosene hanging lamp and a stereoscope in the parlor were luxuries, girls did not go corsetless to a dance and teddy-bears and bloomers were unheard of, no one was ever operated on for appendicitis or bought glands, microbes had not been discovered, folks lived to a good old age, Hen Ford had only one pair of pants and a straw hat, peek-a-boo waists and bobbed hair were unborn, barbers shaved for 10c and cut hair for two bits besides greasing the hair free of charge, young ladies only kissed when engaged and went to bed at 8 o’clock , rhummy had not been invented, garters were worn above the knees by the fair sex and gents wore none.
Today everybody rides in automobiles or Fords, flies, plays golf, shoots craps, smokes cigarettes, drinks Bachus juice or moonshine, blames the h. c. of 1. on the Republicans, never go to bed the same day they get up and think they are having a wonderful time. These are days of suffragetting, profiteering and excess taxes.
Eagle River Review, Eagle River, WI, February 22, 1923