The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • Page 31

SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1923 THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINER MORTALS THE GAY NINETIES By RICHARD VINCEIVT CULTER K. T. TrfMiM, inn. Tnulo Mirk U. B.

Pit. In the gopd old days" when the acme of deviltry was to hire a red-wheeled buggy from the town livery Stable and squander dollar arid a half for an all day's ride. You drove out past the a Works to a sylvan dell, where your lady fair spread out- a repast on snowy damask that would put Oscar at the Waldorf to shame. Bather differ- ent'than paying for every little thinsr from caviar to cafe parfait with bootleg liquor on the side. The surefire mirth provoker of the Nineties and the ioy of the stage comedian and the artists on Puck.

Also the most scathing, withering, insulting epithet known to the period. A Musical Comedy of the Nineties--founder of Bald Headed Row and the idof of the youthful.col- lectors of'cigarette pitchers. It took oretty hefty pulchritude to supply the thrill; market in those days, out' they would have gotten out an injunction against any producer who dared show anything so immoral and indecent as a bare knee. That moment when the crowded cafe was at its merriest and a waiter--who had heretofore been unobtrusively plying his lowly trade of keeping the customers waiting--suddenly- bursts into and wails out some heart-wrenching ballad about "They Have Shifted Mother's Grave to Dig a Sewer. jr 1Z" -m A ntty little.bpthing suit of the Eighteen Beauties of the day took on getting sunburned or endangering the morals of the young men.

And any Attempt to be forward or vulgar by 'showing 1 an ability to swim was instantly thwarted by the ever present whalebones of mode. Showing a thrifty housewife of the Nineties walking out of the Elite Market never to darken its doors again. She absolutely refuses to pay a cent apiece for eggs when everybody in town asks only ten cents a dozen. And they are higher in other things, toch--they only twenty milk tickets, for a against twenty-one elsewhere, and they charge for soup greens, after you Lave bought a soup bone. Dear, dear, what are times coming to when tradesmen rob you like.thatf The long-suffering, old-fashioned' "servant girl," who did the housework, the laundry and took care of the furnace for twelve dollars a month and stayed ten or fifteen years in one family without a raise or a vacation.

She had one afternoon a month to visit her married sister out near the sash and blind factory on Water Street and thought she was in clover. An Arcadia of the NinetieS, showing a nrisgnided, hopeless 1 mortal of that period holding a -large five-cent schooner of the devil's brew and being presented with ft slice of the "free lunch" which would set him biiclc a doljnr a cut in these enliirhtened days. As to the other appointments of tht Den of Iniquity here depicted Dad--he Sunday morning on the path--showing the very latest for patrons of the new "safety? Kcvcle.craze. My, how the- ministers pounded the Pulpits and harked back to'the. Fall because sport was allowed gn.