Evening star. [volume], June 19, 1932, Image 85

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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The Country Boy
By W- E- Hill
How the farm hand used to look (left)
when the chores were done, sitting on a
cracker barrel down at Si Simpkins’ general
store; and here's how the 1932 hired help
looks (right) in his little car en route to a
Greta Garbo picture in a nearby town.
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Just one of those city boys made
over into a country boy—by
I home talent throughout—for the H
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season. His clothes are a great ■
embarrassment to the natives. ■
Country boys are naturally shy. The scene
above, in the year 1900 or thereabouts, shows
a country Romeo at a Methodist strawberry
festival trying to get up courage to steal a kiss
from a rural belle. The duet below depicts
another couple at a strawberry festival in 1932,
and the local youth is trying to get up courage
to break away. Bashfulness is a terrible
curse.
“Well, boy,” wrote the folks
back home, “I suppose you’re
hitting it up among the bright
lights with night club hostesses
and bootleggers and society
dowagers. Wish we were with
you.” This private view of a
country boy sorting laundry in
a Y. M. C. A. room, and trying
to account for a lost sock, is
more like what really happens
of an evening in the big city.
“Listen, Ma. It says here that 'Lupe O’Dare, the Hollywood
screen star, has shelved her last husband and is again in' circu
lation.’” “I heard that on the radio last night. Bud.” Country
boys used to spend their evenings at home poring over the mail
order catalogues, but in this age of enlightenment they read the
Broadway and Hollywood gossip columns.
Otis, the State agricultural student, is home for
vacation, and here he is out looking over possibilities
of bigger and better egg-laying. By installing a radio
and daylight bulbs the hens are to be tricked into
thinking night is day and will be unconscious that
they are working overtime. Science is certainly
wonderful I
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In the old days, when a farm boy took a job in the city, he was lost I
to the farm for good. Not so today, when an enterprising youth can I
learn all sorts of things in the city which help the old folks at home.
Take the boys who enter the real estate business. They come home
eventually and turn the farm into a development called Riverdhle
Manor or Piedmont Gardens, and success is right around the corner.
Then there are the bqys (above) who find their way into the antique
departments of big city stores. They come back to home, sweet
home, and start a shop labeled "Ye Treasure Trove" in the old ice
house, where they sell off the old Victorian horrors as early American
to passing tourists and the money rolls in!