Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1916 — THE GRAY BEARDS [ARTICLE]

THE GRAY BEARDS

(By Walt Mason.)

We relics of a bygone time insist that old things were sublime, that modern things are punk; but our old domes are Tull of bats, and we are talking through our hats, and all we say is bunk. The lovely dames come down the street, togged out in raiment slick arid neat, and we look on and sigh; "The modern fashions*” we declaim, “arenothing but a burning shame-—they shock the purist’s eye, They make the tired spectator ache; arid low the womenfolk can make themselves a holy show, is something that we can’t explain; oh, for the fashions safe and sane, q£ 46 years.ago!” We make such statements free.and b»dd, but if you tak • an album old, and view the women there, with gowns that look like circus tents, and shawls tha t look like 20 cents, tad nets upon their hair, you’ll say, “Those girls, were surely shrieks! The world was overrun with freaks when those tintypes were made; if any woman should appear in such a spread of rags this year, the cops would make a raid’’’