Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1918 — OLD BUGGY NOT SO BAD [ARTICLE]

OLD BUGGY NOT SO BAD

One Man at Least Think® Automobile I® Not Buch a Very Great improvement. Speaking of old-fashioned things, a newspaper writer want* to know what has become of the gallant youth who, when he had stopped the horse, would let down the top of the buggy In order to permit his sweetheart to alight without difficulty? Well, we do not know what has become of him, but we remember him. Perhaps he is slumbering somewhere in oblivion, whatever that is, with the gaudy lap robe wound about him — that lap robe with the big red rose crudely worked in the center. It was a thing of art, even as was the linen duster, and the gallant youth probably hangs on to it in his obscurity. But speaking of bjiggy riding, the automobile is no Improvement over it in the matter of real enjoyment. Not until the automobile is perfected so it can be driven with one hand, or until it will wander along the road without driving at gll, will it come in the class of bliss which the buggy occupied in the days gone by. The girls are as sweet as they used be— a nd the roads much better. The moonlight is just as mellow. Love flows in the same uncharted channel. Youth is as hopeful—and as boastful. Mothers are aS anxious, fathers as impatient, when daughter fails to return when she was expected. Gossip is as busy. But the wise old horse that knew when there was a loving couple in the buggy, and the narrow buggy Itself, have all but taken their departure along with the gallant fellow who hopped from the rig and gracefully and graciously lowered the top of the vehicle so his companion could alight without so much as touching a wheel or the body.—Columbus (O.) Dispatch.