Saga of the Sanpitch Vol 07

In the Golden, Olden Glory

IN THE GOLDEN Dorothy OLDEN GLORY Buchanan Richfield Utah Professional Division First Place Essay As an around history experience the room in obsolescence togroup of young recently married women passed small who were object studying Utah Not one of the twenty-one women present had the faintest idea of its name or function even thoughfew of them venturedwild guess or two Thenexplained that the small crystal dish withhole in its silver 1id was known ashair receiver by their grandmothers our century in the early part of After the lady had arranged her coiffure she would place the accumulated neat When combings into thewaschild and hold and push them down viewed this dish which mother dresser wondered saving but mother told me that switches be made from as perfectly dresser set or toilet them they set how those of those combings could or hair matched times the possibly pieces owner consisted comb and brush powder dish andhair receiver ment We know vocabularies most obsolete and those of some of these into the dish Very always stood on my and be worth braids hair could Every ofhand mirror It was standard equip that time plays strange tricks on us Scenes shift as do and material possessions Certain words which have become alor unknown to the present generation still stay in my mind people my age It would be interesting to make outlist of words and ask their meaning togroup of todayyoung people m afraid they would not rate very high on the test Some that come to my mind are single-tree stove-lifter damper of the words sad irons Magic Yeast Brigham tea Sapolio buttonhook scythe and sickle to namefew Another object that was very popular years ago especially among the young people was an autograph album Nowadays the students have yearbooks handed out during the last few days of school their schoolmates all very casually but the century an autograph album seemed to They scribble messages to in those days around the turn of beyear around affair and was taken very seriously as something of importance and merit In my possession havesmall red album of this type that measures about five by eight inches It is faded red in color with an embossed cover of scrolls and flowers which surroundriver boat scene The title in large black and gold script is Chautauqua Autograph Album Inside on the title page is the name of Bertie Larsen the owner written inneat round schoolgirl hand followed by the words Present from her Papa June 18 1895 She was 13 years old andstudent in the Mt Pleasant school She was my mother The album is filled with sentiments from friends few relatives and two teachers The dates coverperiod of two years extending from 1895 1897 with oneexception Throughout the autograph pages are pictures of scenes around the popular Lake Chautauqua in southwestern New York 31 to