OLD COUNTRY FOLK 



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It is a pleasure when one still sees a good country- 

 woman's face with the hair worn in the plain old way — 

 not tousled into an untidily frizzled fringe. 



Sometimes, though always more rarely, one sees at a 

 railway station a good old body with her light load of 



The Plain Old Way 



luggage done up in the nice old way in clean cotton hand- 

 kerchiefs. 



These large blue and white handkerchiefs may still be 

 bought at the ready-made clothing shops in country towns. 

 Fifty years ago, when paper was much less cheap and plenti- 

 ful, they were more used for carrying purposes. Country 

 women shopping, were always provided with them, as well 

 as with a capacious basket. 



Labouring men had the bread and meat they carried 

 for their dinner, in a clean handkerchief, inside the rush 

 dinner-basket. Now it is taken, for the most part, in a 



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