Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1913 — The ONLOOKER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The ONLOOKER

By HENRY HOWLAND

Things her changed a mighty lot Bine* our granddads went to spark, Hadn’t no electric lights in them days tu spoil the dark; Had to do things all by hand, couldn’t talk by telephone, Wa’n’t no oil trust in the land makin* everything Its own; Strikes was never heard of then, Huerta hadn’t riz to fame — Things hev changed a lot, but still human nature's ’bout the same. Wa’n’t no whlzzln’ trolley cars that were killin’ people then; Hadn’t any chauffeur chaps runnln’ down their fellow men; Folks had never heard of trust, but my granddad used to say Most men tried their best to git other people’s things away; Every little while the folks lost at some glib sharper’s game— Things hev changed a lot, but still human nature’s ’bout the sama Wa’n’t no elevators then, people had tn walk upstairs, Wa’n’t nobody glttln’ rich buytn’ up and sellin’ shares; Everyone was tryln’, though, to be grander than the rest. Or, at least, to make a show so they’d think he was; they dressed And they lived so folks would think they had more than they could claim— Things hev changed a lot, but still human nature’s ’bout the same.