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A school teacher once tried to teach* how rapidly things were changing today by giving this illustration: had you put a man to sleep in 1750 and waked him up a hundred years later, he would have adjusted himself rather kuickly. He would still have found a number of the trades as he had - known them — cobblers, silversmiths, harness makers, and many of such like, and he would have found farming customs very little changed. But put the fellow to sleep in 1850 and wake him in 1950, and he’d go crazy!
The lesson was well taught, for it has stuck in the mind for many years, and it strikes more forcibly as the years go by.
Think what poor Rip Van Winkle would catch if he had begun his nap in 1932—with Hoover in the White House and an ex-Govemor of New York slated to take over the rent-free home at 1800 Pennsylvania Avenue come March 4 — and then have old Rip get down out of the mountains from his 20-year sleep rwith the Baby New Year 19521 Those of us with humane inclinations would, merci
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