Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1915 — WHERE ARE THEY? [ARTICLE]

WHERE ARE THEY?

What has become of the barefooted boys and girls we used to see throng the streets? asks the Freeport, Pa., Journal. It is a rare thing now to see any of the small fry with their pedal extremities bare. We are all either prouder or better off than :n our boyhood days. We remember when there were onl> one or two families whose children wore shoes and stockings the whole year round, and they were considered •‘stuckup.” Our mothers useu to have to whale as to make us wear shoes on the Sabbath, and we would hike home and get them off soon as church was out. Nearly every fellow had a stonebruise or had stubbed his big toe and carried It in a sling unless he was a “Miss Nancy,’’ and played with the girls. Of course, there is not the same inducement to run barefooted now, for there is no dust six inches deep on the streets for a fellow to shuffle through, or pohds in front of every store when it rains for him to splash around in and work the mud up between his toes. Stiveson’s pond is also a thing of the past, and he ca - no longer sail over its bosom on a siao in summer time or baDter on thin ice in winter. It is also true that a fellow does not have to stumble through a flock of geese or fall over a cow every here and there bn the sidewalk as in the good old days.

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