Lost in Translation

"The idea of teaching every girl to thump the piano and every boy to be a bookkeeper will make potatoes worth eight dollars a barrel in twenty years." -Virginia City [Montana] Times I have no idea what that means.

Montana's Loose Definition of 'Moral'

"Judge Clancy yesterday in a naturalization hearing defined a man 'of good moral character' who had never stolen a horse or cut a throat." -The Montana Standard, 19 April 1942, p. 29

No strength like a father's love

A most peculiar accident happened in Baggs Friday morning. While Al Warren was preparing to start to Rawlins, his little six-year-old boy climbed up on the wheel of the wagon, which was loaded with 3300 lbs of oats. The horses started, throwing the young fellow under the wheel. Mr. Warren caught the wheel and lifted in all of his power, which no doubt saved the little fellow's life as the wheel ran across him from above his hip to the knee of the opposite leg. Strange to say, he was not even bruised, while one would naturally suppose his body had been cut in two. -Routt County Courier, October 26, 1905

A Cure for the Wandering Mate

Overheard this valuable lesson at a community museum gathering: Woman #1: "When my mother got married, her mother-in-law had one piece of advice: Never learn to milk a cow." Woman #2: "Too much work!" Woman #1: "Yes, and you guarantee your husband has to be at home twice a day to get it done!"

"You deserve to be somewhere you feel free." -Tom Petty

All paths are open to you.