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.11 `\u _ cock tu r should I Ul il.Ullll just nun premise. the ma ness us \ , l V` '- `\- its size close to 1'0 nu r I!` ' 1 Llmitml fa(`t01'_\' ture st y0!~`tm` 3200,0191), A0 n Inn. CLARK TOR ETC] LU.` Byrm llY'.\l l.'lllLl'll each m AIU T111: (Continued from last week) Old-Time `Joyriding. `Those Jolly winter pleasures we in our] young` days use to -see. . , Beat the world for genuine sport oil the right-down proper sort. ] But those Joyrides of our youth are /A denied old age, torsooth. ' I `When the snow so deeply :ay-taking girls out in a sleigh. I Bweetest music to the ear; were their` bells that fllnled nlnnr ` Ul'il.SS The n 1hin,L.'s vandur uh .... Mn (11 1 muzho 1h:1t nu-.l.. Hal. pride- tllti .\ Ihvm. l. L ILH You that word. -4:USt()I ixveen and c A cor 1:. kn seldor LU UL` their 1 L htillfff by :1 and 4 Hmle. ])+:(]-- 1 n nn .uAlll J,-fe All... ALL4 . Horse ` and Buggy#\Doin4gs%% in Old Boyhood Days,`J % of Fifty Years Ago, J 2 v'(' Whit an-iv` `v mril `;When Young People in Their Joyrides Sometimes Actually, Set the Dizzy Pace of Almost Six or` Eight Miles` an Hour;, V Livery Stable a Popular Meeting Place; Horse Tradingai Lively Affair,in.which Gypsies Were Very Smooth `Ac-l tors; l-`l_orse Sense[Belong'ed to the Horse; and Various} Other Incidents Which Give Some Reasons Why They Were The Good Old Days. a e - I ` cASE`f,THA`\ LI TLE.'BA3TER Bw,THEY CALL TUBBY, - \s MI$st'NG- -SEEN`-'r ou ' . CANT-`IND 5-HM AND BRNG ' HIM BACK HERE HELLQ HELLO, IS THIS POUCE HEADQUARTERS ? - MY UTTLE BO"( IS LOST OR ' KIDNAPED, HE DIDN'T COME _ HOME LAST M6H'r .. 03 . pLEASE FIND HIM H I`!!! Ii V , M V I \' ' u` .I",` ` ` I ._ ,:`.I -I In ` 5/ 1.1"` . Y n` . i . vv /Tieuo, ? NDNAPED, HE mom o H, % \m.EA$a `mm / `(By Fred W- Grant, Vic'toria,_ B.C.) a an in 81003 t In 1: nl` surety 118.8 concur- Vthere used to be Jingling slelghint-V streets; back and {um frnv nu. coma, uurply A song of a sleigh and a spirited "bay, Andthe charm of a silvery Jingle. The glistening white of al winter's night. i . - - And the blood in yourveins 8.-tingle. With two in a seat that is narrow and - - heart. ` Though the/night be cold and airy, If onevyvere you and the other one-Su e Or Alice. or` Mabel. or Mary. e I thinklyoti` would a 813' . The [spirited steed way"--- ' , And also for that little fair-,v. A song or R sleigh and a crispy day. And what it the snow be swirlimz} _-:-} say. Hurrah for the M Juidthe long. white % 1 I I ,, ...v, V. vuullu u|t'lIl!lBlV88'! . is a menace tohuman life. that fact is `not due to the machine-but to lack of horse-sense" in the driver. The motor car certainly helps us to see more of this world now than we used to,be able to see, and in the case only of the reckless driver it is a gregt aid In help. lug` him and his rlotou - companions ` to get an earlier vleweof the next world ` also. But we should worry! u wuen may present th` mot the_ m_a_ch!p human as--A" ,.-.....u.. usu vUul.UiU.. The motor caris not only an estab- lished but it necessary institution. even if there are those who proclaim the riding habit is in danger of be- we are here his provided by the motor. why should anyone sit inxjudgment upon those who prefer their pleasures when they `present themselves? If it] i_i_e`a menace to human life. that fnnf '= V fiections which cannot ,.-_ >1... . tor can has set the standard of pro- gress. and the pace 15,80 swift that in many respects it has become bewild- ering. But the improvementpt events cannot be checked by sentimental re- itablisyhed thatxthe total `of human han- piness was greater in the old days and under old conditions than it is today always be ea- - under the new conditions. when it was `* the watering trough. tank. alongside the piloted our vehicle.. "Wan v----~4--~- -' " not the gasoline". road_ to which we . _.-...., uuou yuuuug every ONIBP l'l'1vOtOI" car out of commission. A 1 The more horsepower in a motor nowadays the less horse-sense has the driver. sometimes. And as for road manners. `no one running a five-ton truck needs to have any these days.` You can get mo_re excitement. all right. , travelling lne swift-moving automo- bile. but hardly more happiness than t was derived in driving one or those ` old-time rubber-tired. dish-wheeled. ` covered-top buggy outfits. In the old I days the horse and buggy net the pace : tor movement in Lrenm-nl Mn... .1... ..-- worth'a. Pete Soules'.and Fred Brown's I bakery carts. or Bill Ainle,v s. Pat. Cav. E anaglrs, Jimmy Gliddon s. Mainprize's. , Caldwel!'s and Dyment s jersey cream milk wagons, `which unfiusteringly fol-7.` T lowed up and downgeach street. crosa- -` ing from side to side. as `the driver 8 went-ahead delivering his goods to his; e regular customers. and which stopping V places the horse knew as well as did; - the driver. Ito motor car ever t'ried'n that trick it would surely very soon belt loonlng-the-loop. turning a. som`ersault'8 or spinning ea. cartwheel. and at the: a same time putting every other m.otor,b ,1. 'IIL_ . I --..- -`....uv.. wvca. isvunu EIIYODE 3. $3-y IUI. as extra tune. patience and 'home__and you Wm remember, . - ' 1' `d dbdl k'f/ch S t h.dH_ .d1't!1t_11vasco_ns1er_e.a ucm e1 ' Ana'{2% `.`.?.`-`e tlian-l?kel`,;'olt1hatr1`1 <? 8.33:1 vnsrtor to a n91zh s home on] t boy in.Barrle now gets half the thrill Year's Day didn't hear a small as It passenger in a 35-mile-an-hour of some kind. That Old system big seven-passenger touring car that . New Year's calling had its a_d\ _[,`Xf:.`333,'3%Jgffi.. }3.&`c`X &.e'}o.?`3`E?W998 besides the social side e= us take the reins and pilot that equally ciany t9 the ymmg ma" .w'h had. ,]'s_huttl!ng. four-mile-an-hour te me of home tl_eS, for by `U1 his as it plodded into town_ haul 119; the made 1118 rounds and had Sam}: 31 ; K111543819 ta%'e- offerings, both solid" and li uid. _'.I`here were not so many accidents . generally was full," for so etil ' a1]"1 ,"l ` %5 3Y1`E119 behmd W? ' fifty calls would be made. Not m e races orse as are are ow n - . T a gas wagon. but that was prlcbably me um be spent at any ` because there was more` horse-sense_!`h3e and 33 POP} Wine 9!` 3]_8l`d' .!te1!sed in driving`. Since.human ...._:mma.. ....... -u__- A accldents! either in those Joyrldes even` the tvlskleat horse there now in probably horse-sense: exercised drlvlnn. Slnce,human n_a-j ture has and probably always will have remalned the same. and` youth in all ages has been equally irresponsible. reckless automobile drlvlmr arouses ; the suspicion that it's more than likely When 'l;w;> p more mppmeqs ...,e._ess uu appeal to the common, f;w``a`1;5" 0, sense of the intemperate motor car`: e. driver, as it is t? aY"? give" t. .tep old? any other excessive passion. Very ew drivers of motor cars ever tiink O I h 0 I h f t O - M22232` 3:3, .:.*;`3:";w.`:: 2:22; 35si3i"tie5"nf&%o-5 Zariaiviiie `LE-~ 'respec,tslt become P`-ma"-V the mre Juvenile. char :6; oteers appear -to think they have e by sentimental special rights and privileges on the i cannot ` ; -streets. . d tt'.f Of course there will never be a was , - , Id than depaiture fiom the use of the motor ; ,e_ 1: weejcar, for it has become a necessit of . ering gasoline modern life and business. But t ere ongside road` certainly will have to be something "7 "h ,"- done to check the accidents, for laws itfutfl` gavnfcgsztmfgl1* h:`s':1f:3:)`;; and regulations seem to be useless. `who If all concerned, drivers and general 1 l i i W publ_i_c,_ could be made to realize ne 1 a vice. But as life in most colldlf-l0ns_hiaV g s i W9 "5 Wbulav "3- SW09 fewer accidents on the roadways, the cap?-"V f`;d(',`5gy:g"t "We majority of which are now due to :3}? :n ;, ,`,(:,`; 2" ,3n\J3dg1,$,e3,lt' furious or careless driving. Nearly a me every operator of a motor car drives . ey it at a greater rate of speed than is ac- ace tuallv necessary and when some un- C t. th hi -b t t t ' - ~ . 4 !l'(:86"e1l`fn}?8 gisveg. Thelarrcgtgr expected "" ."c . e.qm.rmg - coon` ii jnly more tr_ol is suddenly met it is impossible ' k [1 to meet that emergency, with dire ' h ld results. sudden break in some . irlver hel . and 3%?` 3539`:333?.Y}`Z`f...ii3ii i`LSi22I'5 ,`:',';,ll: {,,; ,1,?,'Vi, vf,,,,}35`,',xt cldent, -but it is generally admitted t` ______.__ e - - the greatest number of catastrophes ` in the average motor cartravels of b` these days is the result of the slip- `ti In 'l'wo Were Company E -bay, ping of the nut" at the steering i a - .- - - mung` wmtem }\:'i1'(l1ee(!.1 of the typical Joyrrdinguve. ai PE liylood iyoupveins a,.ng]e, The inventive genius Of mankind W` tin and has never given the-'people of the th , . of the-nishtsbe Z"5'rii1i..?'inio ia,'$ii' ar [,',,`, ,`,!.;';`b{`,,;",{`,.3`9F' lengthensitime and shortens space--- "9 u yeeia t-1-rm-,~eh'gep it ismore than a public convenience, rh. _ . it is a public necessity. Bu-t there th 6.d_!t9d gidiihe are a certain number of people who [ch .3 tm_.mat mm are not -con-tent with a sane use of 2 W A the good things of life, who go to .`us acrlspy extreme; and .indulge in excesses: co: at theesnow swlrllna . and the result is that where such er: -i-* `'"'_`A I wldes even` us . ly have and~ vnnfh an an 'CASE`f,THA'\' -SEE -\F_You H\M .,_V._ ---- an-wig 3111119 18 I I much to the regret of many an _old- I , timer. .With the -great increase and de- ` velopment of -the automobile have -come -the good roads, which, with the I {modern motor "camps, have formed an unbroken line of passage between every point in this continent, east,` iwest, north and south. Motor camp- ging, supplying as it does an oppor- ;tunity for this gipsy, open-air recre- -ation and adventure, has made us aall travellers. And yet this very ,best of outdoor mm-..+:.... .... ..u.: L- 5 5:; w`-`avian UIIU up . _ Then, too, the A popular old-time ,- system of calling on everyone else, 1, on New Year's Day, to V be_ regaled 3-`: with mince pie, fruit cake rand a glass 3. of the real holiday spirits of those i- times, isn't the general institution it ,:, once was. And the wonder now is, u; with nearly everyone out calling, how l,- the visitor ever found anyone at will too,` `it was considered bad luck if the first visitor neighbor's on New ~ gift system of advan- !tages, side, espe- _e_cially -to young man whn ma .... \n llllv ----- --w ICU offerings, solid he| so etimes Not much time could any one house, port or harder goods was offered to each caller, be 553' to exercie_ a_ goqd deal of re- al-u.....I. :3 L` ` When 7 hearts'_ beat warm, through . the 1 _ blustery storm,_ 2 x _ And; the miles behind, .vou1go whirl- . . A _ ng . y . a When tlwto in a `seat area world com-V P G 9 . . V` i . . And anyone else was a nuisance. If one were you. and other one Sue, ) Or Lucy, or Jennie or Prudence. I'm sure you'd still` say. "Hurrah for the sleigh.- The spirited steed and the long. white ,wa,y---" . They're one of the world's finest ' amusements. I There "was a time, too, when the cutter was fully employed on Christ- ; mas Day in bearing messages and ' gifts to the various friends, or for l the family drive n the afternoon `when greetings were exchanged winthvneighbors as you met or passed them on the highway, with a` cheery ewave of gauntlevted ands; or per- haps the whole family made up a party to spend the holiday with friends out in` the country, or -they- with you. But those exchange vis- its of Christmas family parties, when the visitors arrived in the big robe- covered sleigh, have not the place in `the holiday programme these days that they occupied in the old days, lif, indeed, they haven't entirely dis- appeared. us me social side, who had no For the time he had mnds and sampled )th solid and linnm no ran-: BARRIE xujhan .~'(`.b' fa": -3`(3:"$`!r\E"`IflG\:\lE" ME A wmcbpuo` rprz S`\'A\_ J_N' so no nu cer A`n: 2son'= 3`2T Bl2EAKw` was-r wwbow. on,_ DEN2, `0H,DEA!2.' Z :3::s&2+*`*2' H~g~`*~ AT MM LEES LAUN I2 - *|`MADTA Go HOME To SEE MY ;.2"`.- .`. I.`f..!;.5-Eu 539?. 8ooHoo,oH_\w\$HI HADMWA ~ 1.u.;_;'_|_o,~n.m `TH . `- . 1a`r383)c34T-We 3;'iE:x3 9C,`,1`; , Ifoovcs UKE THE Lggg Lgu KID THAT IS HOME MY - ' OM , BUT \F I-Do, SHELL GNE Fora JN' OUTTA SCHOOLAN` ii? I DON'T 50 GET ARRESTED FOR Bl2EAKw1HA'rwwDo\. `OH DEAR: J 1.318, 1110 lthe motor ,4 [change in ` :Where thg .`used to stax corrugated eral repairs rease i tion. . W journey known, ' lhunng -__v a~vvv --.........,.m nave surely changed, as inevitably they must change with the growth of population and the in- crease in. facilitinw rm. +--m----L- 9; you are apt to ramble outside Id find half a dozen motors parked ady to divide your grounds. But T1at`s the use? There are still many ings just as they used to be, and those whichhave changed, many e better than -the conditions they gzlaced. v I es, indeed, the introduction of car has made a wonderful nge transportation conditions. ere vi1lage_'blacksmith shop` d stand can now be found the, rugated iron garage, where gen- l repairs for the farmer's imple-I I U act in-:5--I UL became -m the nurse as the main factor in , .uting parties was the family, commun- ity or Sunday School picnic party which used to be held in some grove a couple ':f miles out of town or -to a social tea meeting or party out into the `nearby country. The teams. either voluntarily riupplied by friends or hired busses `from the livery stable, would meet in front of the church in the mornlna. to haul the crowd out to the arounds. As those Sunday School picnics of the different denominations were never held: on conflicting dates, there were some ultra-pious, unbigoted young- sters who during the picnic season --and later on the Christmas tree sea- . son--at least attended every Sunday }~c-no-_. But now, more far more value - _- -..5....e_..n5 ana ooay oe- signs. The cars possess a greater degree of smoothness, silence and ease. They are more comfortable, more beautiful. 4 Current prices - made possible, of course, b ' I Prices, in fact, have story of Dod basic worth. never told the full ge Brothers dependability and `In the year just drawing to a close the price of Dodge Brothers Motor Cars was materially lowered. "Yet during this period more important im- provements were incorporated than in any year in `Dodge Brothershistory. Advances were made in engineering and body de- .degree smoothness, ea _ --- -annual uacu. I recall the joys of winter in they 1 blessed long`-ago, ` ` When the frost had sprinkled dia-g monds on the bosom of the snow, 9 L- When -the air was full of stingers. 1 that would nip your nose and, S ears - . '. _And wouldkeep your eyes also leak-j 6' . ing involuntary tears- I Wasn t one upon the programme of` I ' the sports we used to share - In those crispy moonlight evenings - d any way` compare a hen jolly young folk: ; full of fun from heels to head Went straw-riding round the coun-, try in the old farm sled. M ` Underneath the quilts you'd cuddle 1 sitting close to keep her; warm, ` _ 3 Making a protector, as you might _ say, of your arm. - '1 And within that curve was some- S thing that'was always sure to P - please, .9 And you told her that you thought 131 - . o , so in a pretty frequent squeeze. . `How the air would ring with music 15 as the runners slid along, '- _ ---.. .....5.u.cx me away, one JUU, it nas made his life 'easier,;!When the lungs would get e for instead of having to pull over-I and quite weary of the loaded street cars -or drag all toofAnd you'd cuddle down y heavy burdens up steep hills over` and you'd hold her ext uneven roads, he has been given;Both your young hearts work much` nearer his standard,: gladly to the music of while.` machinery does the heavi-er5Every fellow interested in work. And the horse, as we knowi sweet girl alone, him now, finds his proudest placeiAs unconscious of the othe not. as the motive power for the fam- ' they were only stone, ily turnout, but as a principal actor.IAnd no others tried to liste: at the Woodbine race track or the; tender -things each said annual horse -show. {In the Whlsnm-ml nm.......-...:-~ Envcu pzacc C0 Spark ] eter, Ignition andwthe parts of the modern n..+ 4:..- u.- L vtue mint and distant chimes never -be- Iore heard announced that some tra- `veiler from town or perhaps a straw- ' ride party was on its way along the tone and narrow sleigh truk. with Iveryone joining in Jingle be s. Jingle ~ -`bells, jingle all the way: oh . what fun 1 it is to ride in a one-horse open w 'sleigh." And it was fun. too! And.he.i `was a queer boy who wouldn't rather`: sit up in front with the driver and get ' an occasional opportunity for driving c the {high-stepping steeds on one of t `those strawrides than merely sit t hunched up beside his parentsein a r smoothly running automobile. "and Just 1 "rubber" as the car reeled oft mile t after mile as ._it rolled along on its a `journey to some unknown destination. Another popular institution that pretty much went outwith the passing of the horse as the main factor A _V Dartiel W38 the famllv, nnrnrnnv-- ments are also performed. And the old-time references to harness,3 hames, bridles, reins, surcingles and the rest of the paraphernalia associ- ated with the old farm horse have` given place to spark plugs, carbur-g eter, ignition andathn +1.-.. ...._:----r the job, it has made his 'easier, _for_instead havmg to null m,.... = FRANK w. l-J{'ihJ'GSTON Phone 9l Barrie, Ont. rvv-Inn QISWIGII n 0 0 0 o Belivered with Spare Tire " I Also Sell Dependable Used Cars In the Old -Farm Sled vuuul !l.lWlyl out across tields and drive either over or through a tempor- ary opening in the rail fence. Just by removing the top one or as many rails as you needed to make a passage to the farm house. It would be difficult to *-have any more happy times thanithose .drives over the crisp snow and with the Jingling bells ever ringing d no "one who ever has taken a place n one of those affairs, where each was treat. ed as if h ever forget them. I There are indeed many of us who gregret the passing: or the old deiizrht oi sleigrhingtwhich in rural life at least held a popular place. Most mo- tor ears are of a standard and give oft pretty much the same honk:" but dnthe old winters you could sit Veslde i ` the kitchen stove read_inz: your Fire- side Companion" in the` rays of the coal-oil lamp and could tell who the approaching neighbor was as -he drove past or down your at the bells `adornine: his team". for eaeh string oi! bells had a sound all -its own; and the horses seemed to r:'nce along to an accompaniment of heir own sup lying. And sometimes the faint and _ istant announced mm ..n..... 4.... lane from the tone" e were one of the family,` will M 1 1 1 1 I l I 1 t t F 1; e t. o `Ila. 7r:i: .......c uurrle photographs pr places to add to the co is making of and for the -F.W.G. P. S.--It`s probably useless repeat- -ing, but the writer would like to state that about -the finest Christmas present he could receive from any _of the old frierfds is a bunch of old- time Barrie photographs of people V J oin [1101 In f aging men, ,When those half-forgotten pictures -3 flash before their eyes again. 5Can feel those frost-laden breezes and their almost benumbed I arms ;In those old-time, happy straw-rides, filled full with girly charms. "Tis the sweetest rnnnllnn+.'.... .13 AL 9 en the frost-gems glittered bright-l : A d ly on the passing fields of snow. 3. n we'd like once more to travel ; _ we used to tread--- Jam in nn .1; nu - '* _______.__. .Gems of frost all `round were danc- . ing to the music of your song. And your shouts of merry laughter were enough to wake the dead ?When spirits of fun got busy in that Later on the songs would weaken and the laughter die away, {When exhausted I the play, jAnd you d yet lower FB hand extra tight, ; ot beating : _the music delight- Rxrnrvv ..`lI - _ uuv-HUPHB 011811 8181811." . . That used to be a children's song `but it doesn't mean much today. While the motor may not have put the old- time amusement or sieighing entirely! -out of the picture it surely has obscur. _ed it. Each winter `there laughing. shouting. arties through the 7 orth, every night. Just for the exhil- arating pastime of sliding over slip- aaery roads.` with youthful spirits and .piles of robes keeping out the cold ` that no one seemed to worry over. ` Other times surprise parties or invited `parties -from town wouldvdrive out to Iome home in the country, generally on a moonlight night, for there were no attached spotlights then toannounce pitch holes, hummocks or drifts ahead. and a trusty old coal-oil lantern was i `but it did not always prevent a sud- den -upset when a particularly unfavor- able spot was .unexpecte_dly encount-' ored. But it the roads were drifted you could always out fields through n nun: n.-..-n-.l.-... 1.- AI 1 1 ii i 1 l i usually cnrrie_d along for emergency. It C s c Gems `round , ing fn H-an nnn..:.. Ar THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1926. ~\-I----ogwg. -:1 .__ tmas, 1926. Avenue, Victoria, RC. 1 1 1{e}"ex t}3 3cg,'r'ht`; roung delight. in his own `I alnma LAC, others as if V Qfnnn uuccuun ne Old Town. "Jingle bells. jingle bells, Jingle all "the way; oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh." That used to ha 1: n1.n.a...._o.. ....'_-'