Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1912 — “TIMES IS CHANGED.” [ARTICLE]

“TIMES IS CHANGED.”

Adonfram Corntop Notes a -Differ- 1 ence Since His- Courtin’ Days. “Yes, siree, Bill; times is changed Bince you an’ me was doin’ our courtin’,” said Adoniram Corntop, with a note of sadness in his voice, to old Andy Clover, who had come over to “set a spell.” “When we was doin’ oqr courtin', Andy, a gal thought she was bein’ treated right harnsom if a feller bought her ten cents wuth o’ pep’mints once in awhile, an’ if he tuk her to any doin’s in town she didn’t expect him to go down Into his jeans to the tune of a dollar or two for ice cream an’ soda water an’ candy at fo’ty cents a paound. My son Si» tuk his ducksy-daddle to the band concert in town yistiday an’ there wa’n’t a quarter left of a dollar bill he struck me fer time he got home. Beats all the way young foiks throw the money away nowadays. I tell ye times is changed mightily since we were boys, an’ Lawd only knows what the end will he with a feller layin’ out seventy-five cents on a gaj In one day!”