Comparison of Tom’s Mode of Travel with Present Modes
By Cornie Williams, 7th Grade
Years ago in the time of Tom’s life, people rode in a vehicle called a coach, which was almost like a two-horse carriage. A light was on each side of the front. We now have cars with two lights in front, a rear light, and a dome light in the car. Some cars are one and two seated. There are a few three seated cars.
The driver or chauffeur sits in front. Cars are made in open and closed types. The closed cars are convenient, for in the winter the snow and rain does not get to one. In the summer one is free from dust. Most of the modern cars are equipped with a little heating system. In order that one may go in pleasure and comfort in winter as well as in summer.
Since the invention of cars it enables the tourist to go in comfort and also much less time. Not alone are the tourist benefitted but the traveling salesman can go in the car and take in more towns. In traveling through the country one gets to see beautiful scenery and places of interest.
From page 2 of the Reidsville Review, Nov. 19, 1923
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A Scene in Old New York
By Sarah Whitsett, Seventh Grade
A picture of New York of today would be very different from the peaceful quiet scene that one sees in the picture.
One can very easily see this scene takes place in Old New York and that the people are Dutch from the queer clothing and wooden shoes. Also the wind mill in the distance tells one these are Dutch girls.
Two two large girls and their smaller sister seem to have line in which they are taking to the river to shrink. They are going at leisure as they are tired from their day’s work and are glad to be out in the sunshine and fresh air.
The list of scenery in the distance, the river, the trees, the path winding though the fields and the flowers growing by the wayside all make a very beautiful landscape.
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The Dutch Maids
By Edna Stone, Seventh Grade
A picture of New York today would be very different from the scenes in early days when the city was a Dutch colony.
Today we would see in New York the cross weary laundryman driving a truck collecting laundry from the many houses instead of the merry maidens with their wooden shoes and their queer little Dutch caps loitering along Maiden Lane with their baskets of linen and the hissing geese at their feet.
As they loitered along the winding path they did not say, “My! How I wish this washing was done;” but, “this is a very pleasant morning to wash and I know the river is very clear today.” Instead of hurrying they have time to stop and smile, as they study nature, watching the crickets and grasshoppers hopping among the flowers, which have sprung up along their way, and the birds flying from tree to tree, and watching the wind mill swing its arms into the air to grind the miller’s grain, or, as they look, at the small ship which is wrecked on the coast after bringing them from their home to a home of liberty and freedom.
From page 2 of the Reidsville Review, Nov. 19, 1923. These stories all appear to have been inspired by a drawing depicting life in old New Amsterdam.
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