Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1917 — HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED [ARTICLE]

HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED

The time was when the spring girl always had her eye on th'e fellow who had a good driving horse, but the fellow who has an automobile holds over the fellow with a horse so far now that there is no dbmparison. A girl could tell her fellow by the way he drove up to the door, or by the sound of his buggy, but now she simply listens for the “honk” or sniffs for the smell of gaseli&e. There is one handicap yet as to running an auto, it requires both hands, but this may be obviated later on. The tandem bicycle was not a howling success as a means of locomotion to the young people although it was,touted to the skies first, and there may be brighter days yet for the old sorrel and top buggy if the girls of today and tomorrow are anything like their mothers of yes-terday.—-Exchange.