A Woman Rice Planter - Patience Pennington #222012

While the influences and mechanisms of the present world tend to make all parts Of it alike in thought and in costume, the various nooks and corners of our own country are gradually losing their original highly accentuated characteristics, and are merging into a general similarity. Most Of what you hear and see any morning in the towns of Massachusetts you will hear and see in Omaha, Denver, Seattle, or anywhere else, because the department stores advertise and sell the same kind Of clothes everywhere at the same time, and the same news is everywhere published in the daily papers.