Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1932, Page 77

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, .D. C, -APRIL 10, 1932 — 9 We're Not So MODERN After All L i ‘:"' 1 | Pffigfif"flu;v Ik ‘ \ |i'|";{ : | 4 Man always has been afflicted with that superiority complex which makes him confident that the world was only in the crude process of development before his time. “Up-to-Date” America Still Spends Millions on Old-Fashioned Buggies, Oil Lamps, Celluloid Collars, Horse-Hair Furniture and 1.ong Underwear. BY EDNA ROBB WEBSTER 1l i:ilal trains and high-powered motor cars. But wait & minute! There are some rather PFirst o dissipate the idea that all twentieth sentury folk are speed hounds, it is revealed that not every one prefers motor cars to the buggies were in demand o the number of 7,019; farm wagons and horse-drawn trucks, 99,088; sleighs and sleds, including bobsleds, 5,471; sulkies, 614; two-wheeled carts for horses, 2,073, and eother light spring vehicles not classed as buggies, 416, with a total value for the horse- drawn vehicle industry of $19,422,235. Such incidentals to this leisurely mode of transpertation as cotton and leather fly nets, whips, etc. amount annually to a value of $444850. The village blacksmith still swings his sledge and blows his bellows, while he ad- Justs some 79.536.800 pounds of horse and mule shoes. It may be more than half a century since the incandescent lamp was invented, but each year $458019 werth of coal oil burning lamps are made and sold, while 18 establishments supply the demand for 2,987,483 dozens of new lamp chimneys and 869,247 dozen of lantern globes. A million Zlectric lights may flash and blaze on blatant Broadway, but only a few miles away—in Jersey, Connecticut and along the Hudson shores, as well as elsewhere in the United States—feeble oil lamps cast their glow into the silent night from hundreds of windows. ND not all the water used by Americans flows from nickeled taps at the turn of a spigot. Every year, some 3,902,100 new hand pumps are bought and put into service, includ- ing 334704 pitcher-spout pumps that are in- stalled in kitchens all over the oountry. One jump ahead of these, yet relics of the past $o this modern age, are windmill pumps and tewers, which are still in demand to the aumber of 120,597 a year. Modern woman’s emancipation has not yet seleased her from as much domestic drudgery as well-to-do city folk may think Besides the daily cleaning and refilling of millions of coal oil lamps and the pumping of millions of barrels of water for household use, she is using & goodly number of hand-power washing ma- shines and feot-power sewing machines— 151,742 of the former and 453,990 of the latter. It is revealed that less than 12 per cent of the American homes are equipped with electric sewing machines. Add to the laboring hours commanded by these the operation of 190,543 hand-operated cream separators—as against the figure of 1,453 for power-operated ones—some 10,000 hand clothes wringers, washboards and flatirens—and the flatirons must be heated on the stove. Neither is all this heat supplied by gas, coal oil and electricity. Coal and wood stoves and ranges are sold to the number of 2,243,990 annually, of which 852,801 are kitchen stoves. Nor has the old-fashioned icebox vanished yet. Fully $91,231.390 worth of these refrig- erators are manufactured in one year, and 40,287,027 tons of ice are sold to fill them. —— ——— g———— e — W — B eStm——— —— PE——— ————— é —— S | L \ | II i The people of 1932 may seem very up-to-date . chases, they retain a lot of the “old-fashioned” generation. LD-FASHIONED foeds mre still popular, teo. For imstance, 44,559,407 poumds of buckwheat are converted annually inte griddle cakes, and the total value of the sausage, head- cheese and sausage casings imdustry is esti- mated at $242,459,648. Also 1,899,859 pounds of cornmeal are con- verted imto johmmy cake, corn pone, griddle cakes and fried mush, and all these cail for thousands of gallons of gelden maple sirup to enhance their flavor. Who said that this mod- ern werld soon would be receiving its mourish- ment from pills, compounded scientifically from condensed food elements? And, speaking of feoods, even chickens still are produced by the now antiquated method of the home incubator. Many medern farmers buy chicks that are hatched in quantity pro- duction factories, but many others still prefer to hatch their own at home and purchase 160,753 new incubators annually. One would suppese, however, that haircloth, having horsehair filling, existed only in the dim, musty parlors of the past generations. Yet there are now 16 establishments manufacturing this commodity. with the total value of their products amounting to $4,543,454. But the best laugh is in the statistics relative . but judgin their pur- customs 2 ‘-byow-o]-dace to modern wearing apparel! Incredible as it may seem, what with fashion medes and Paris couturiers on the uwp and up, the men still wear oelluleid oollars! OT just a few of them who live in isclated laundryless communities, either. Wrong again! One collar concern alone makes 545,896 dozens of collars “other than these of textile fabrics,” fram which it supplies over 400 retail merchants in one large Eastern city alone. “Other than textile fabrics” means a celluloid processed cellar, for paper collars actually have dropped out of the picture; and, although seme prog>ssed collars were once called rubber, there never was a collar that contained a particle of rubber, according to this large manufacturer of collars that are made to imitate linen. But collars are not the only articles of cloth- ing which have remained consistent through a period of radical transition. Despite the popu- larity of physical freedom, boyish silhouettes and faddish diets, 8,937,677 corsets are still required every year to mold the feminine form to meet fashion requirements. Remember the days when mother almost never went shopping because it was many weary miles to the nearest store? Then, father took the grain and fattened pigs and whatnot to market and with bright calices and woolns i which 1 wrap.bis Baby Bunings He never bought it skins then, because he caught and skinned his own. Now daddy pays well for his Baby Bunt- ing’s rabbit skins, but he doesn’t take grain and produce to exchange for them. He clips cou- pons and signs checks, and he still does the shopping for his woman folk. The difference is that he selects hand-tailered oreations displayed by modistes’ models in ex- clusive shops that are called aaions. New Golf Title ;.lé!!l F k- 1 4] i l:.!igf Six of America’s feminine stars, with two al- ternates, have been named to represent the United States in a series of international matches against England in May. Miss Helen Hicks of New York, national champion, a squad that includes Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare of Philadelphia, five-time champion, and run- ner-up of 1931; Mrs. O. 8. Hill of Kansas City, Virginia Van Wie of Chicago, Maureen Orcutt of Englewood, N. J, and Mrs. Leona Pressler case a substitution is 3 ‘The matches, to be conducted along the lines of the Walker Cup, will be held at the Staun- 18 h L “The national amaweur will take place at the Baltimare Country Club from September 12 to 17. The women’s national will be played at Salem, Mass, September 26 to October 1. Browse Plants Numerous HE browse plants, of tremendous value to stock raisers who find grazing scarce, are of wide variety. The Department of Agricule ture has made a study of at least 500 different types ranging from weeds to small trees. The term browse is applied to tender shoots, sprouts or twigs upon which animals, both domestie and wild, can feed. It is estimated that there are 300,000,000 acres of pure browse land in the West and experiments have indicated that a use equally as important as animal feeding may develop from a study of the plants. Some of the plants have been found to be a possibls source of latex for manufacture of rubber.