July 22, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Mother, Why did Daddy switch to post them? Your father says,
there's no caffeine in post them, nothing to spoil your sleep.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
And your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert
Young's father. A half hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons,
brought to you by instant post them the good tasting
drink that's entirely caffeine free, and by posts forty percent
brand Flakes, America's largest selling brand flakes.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
It's a well known fact that the town of.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Springfield, where the Andersons live, is a fairly up to
date little communi and the Andersons.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Are a fairly up to date family.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
But every now and then the head of the Anderson
household becomes irt with a modern scheme of things and
insists on a return to the way things.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Were done in the good old days.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Take this Saturday afternoon, for example, Jim is out in
the garage with Bud building.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
What seems to be a kite. Any piece of string,
will you?
Speaker 6 (01:13):
But Dad, hurry up, I need a piece of string. Dad,
We're just going to a lot of work for nothing.
You can buy a kite at the drug store.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
For a dime, Bye, bye bye. That's all you kids
think of these days? Do you want to buy everything?
When I was a boy, we made most of our toys,
and we had a lot of fun doing it too.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Hurry up, how many piece of string?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
And our toys meant a.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Lot more to us too, uh huh, because we put
some time and effort into making them. We took pride in.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Them and took better care of them too.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
That ot a hole a crossbar. What we need now
is some glue. Have we got any?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
I don't think so. Do you want me to run
down to the drug store and get some?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Here you go again, run down to the drug store.
But what would you kids do if you didn't have
a drug store to run down too?
Speaker 6 (02:00):
I guess we'd have to run down to the market. Oh,
they carry the same stuff. Want me to run down?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
No, we don't have any glue or paste. We'll make some.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Make sound you.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Probably don't even know how to do that?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Oh, sure, with flour and water.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
But Mom says she doesn't like us kids getting in
the flower, and she says it's actually cheaper to buy
some paste.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Want me to buy some?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
No, I'd be.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Glad to and while on there, I could pick you
up a kite, pick me.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Up a kite.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
But this isn't for me. I'm making this kite for you.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Oh well, I don't care much for kites.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
All boys care for kites.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
You just have to feel the thrill of flying a
kite to become a real enthusiast.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Well, if that's for me, I don't want an old,
homemade one. You can buy a good one for a dime.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
What's wrong with this one we're making?
Speaker 6 (02:52):
I don't know. Real kites have sticks across flows. I
don't think those some Deller ribs will work.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So you used to work when I was a boy.
I've made a lot of kites this way. These metal
ribs are lighter than wooden, a lot stronger.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Daddy, How are you gonna get those ribs back on
the umbrella?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Oh that umbrella is not good anymore.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
In the garage, kitten, at the drug star, they got
box kites only fifteen cents.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
This kind flies better, say daddy, Come in, kitten and
watch how a real kite is put together.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I haven't got time. Can I have twenty cents?
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Twenty cents?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
What for?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I want to buy a pearl necklace.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
For twenty cents.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I know they're expensive, but Patty Davis has some, kitten.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
You can't buy pearls for twenty cents.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Well, maybe these aren't real, genuine pearls.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
They're probably just some old diamonds.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Can I have some?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Can I? Daddy?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Kitten? If you want a string of beads, why don't
you make some?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Make sense?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Yeah, out of umbrella ribs.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Oh, a lot of salt and water, and well, I
forget what else your mother will remember?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Go in and ask her.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I want some real beads.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Well, these are real beads. I remember when I was
a boy, you made beds. No, all that my sister did.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
They were very pretty too, she colored them all different colors.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Sounds pretty carny.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Well it's not.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Why about all that bother when you can run down
to the dining store and buy some good ones.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I'll swear. I don't know what's happening to you kids.
I think you're being destroyed by civilization. Well, what stores
have become entirely too handy. They're robbing you of all
the real pleasures and thrills of childhood. Twenty senses and much, Daddy,
Maybe we ought to sell this place and move out
into the country, a long way from stores and people.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
We'd get a place out there in Lakeview, heikes. We
could get a television set television. Yeah, they say they
can get two channels out there direct from Omaha.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Well, that's not the idea of moving out in the
country to get a television to get away from some things.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Come on, let's go into the house.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Aren't you going to finish your card?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Certainly? But but and I are going in to make
some paste.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
We are. Come on, okay, I'm coming.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
How about it, daddy? Can I have the pearls?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Why don't you try making some? Maybe you'll discover it's
a lot of fun. You'll never find out if you
don't try.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Patty Davis has some real.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
But she's missing the thrill and pride and owning something
she's created herself.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Eh, yew, what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I don't know?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Just it.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Well, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
When I was a boy, we didn't have one tenth
of things kids nowadays have. And I can see now
that it was an advantage. Taught us how to be
resourceful and imaginative and handy and quente and kitten. Hurry up, Bud,
I'm coming. That screen door certainly needs fixing, Margaret. You
want to get someone to fix that backscreen door.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Well, I've been trying to get someone to do it,
and you know who.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
H yes, Well I'll take care of it all right, Bud.
I get out some flour and put it in there.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Oh what are you going to do, big bread?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
No, just gonna make a little kite paste.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Oh that's so messy, dear.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
It's much simpler and cheaper to run down to the
store and buy something.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
We're going to make this paste ourselves.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I want to show budd it's such unnecessary bother.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
I'll take care of the bother.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
But get out some flour and put it in a
bowl and put some water with it. Okay, Margaret, do
you remember how to make those salt beads or whatever
they are, salt beads?
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I used to make them when you were a kid.
You remember, Oh.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeahs those things they'd crumble about as fast as you
made them. We have some cheen pearl necklaces at the
Star for twenty cent I've seen.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Them, the very nice.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Oh wait a minute, Margaret, if you just think bad
and remember the fu thrill of making ad. What is it, Bud?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
This stuff is all lumpy.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
I can't get it smooth enough for paste.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Oh here, maybe you're not doing it right. The way
to do it is.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, there's pretty lumpy.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
You better get another batch and start over.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Jim, there's a job paste on the shelf in the
broom closet. Why don't you use that?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Because we're making paste, that's why.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Mother, Yeah, it seems pretty ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Mother.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Can I go over to Lynnville tonight?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
To Lynnville?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
You see?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Oh? Hello, father?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Oh, princess third fast to this time? Bud?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
What's going on here? A cooking school?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
No, this is a paste factory. Why do you wanna
go to Lynnville?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Well, Ralph and a bunch of us are going to
movie over there.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Drive clear to Lynnville just to see a movie. We've
got movies right here in Springfield.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yes, But this is three D.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Three D. They get the strangest names for pictures these days.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Oh, father, don't be so utterly model team?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
What have I done wrong? Now?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Three D dance for three dimensional? Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yes, that's right, it does, doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Everyone knows that. Can I go with you? Buddy, No,
you're too little. I'm not so little. I'm gonna get
some genuine curls.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Dad, I want to go.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I'm not so sure anybody's going Dad.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Oh, now, father, it's practically all arranged AND's gone.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
And what's the matter with the pictures we already have?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Are you kids so completely lacking in imagination that you
can't even look at a two dimensional movie anymore?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Dad? Yes, it's lumpy again.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
M Well, maybe you better get that pace in the
broom closet. No need to waste the whole day on
one operation.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Mother, May I go? Please?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Where's your father? Seems to be against it.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I'm not against going to Lynnville, but I'd like to
see you have a good reason to go there.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
I remember when I was a boy.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yes, when Daddy was a boy, he made bes out
of umbrellas.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
He did walk.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
He told us out in the garage.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
No, I didn't kidd, And you've got things a little
mixed up.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Well can I go?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Father?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I guess so, but it seems a little ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Oh, thank you, father, you're a doll.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Look like it might rain by evening, though I don't
want you out driving in a storm.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It is plodding over.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Oh, it won't rain. Can I go too? No, this
is just for grown ups.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Wouldn't be room anyway.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Oh heck, can I have those pearls? Daddy?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So, come on, Bud, let's get out and finish our kite.
Hurry up, Bud, I wanna get this door fixed sometimes.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Wait a minute, dear, what about all this flower and water?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Are you gonna leave it sitting here? Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
So the way, it's no good.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
It's long fee Let's go, Bud.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
All that flower wasted?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
How do you make salt beads? Mommy? I don't think
I remember, Betty. If you do drive over there tonight,
try to get home early, or we'll get back as
soon as we can. We'll start back right after the movie,
honest we will. I certainly don't like the way it's
clouding up. What's the weather forecast.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
For the day?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Did you read it this morning? No?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
But it's not going to rain. It just can't. It
would spoil everything.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Daddy, hand me the morning paper there, win him? Oh,
don't look it up much. Well, it won't hurt to check. Well.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Here, it is increasing cloudiness with possible showers this afternoon
and evening. Oh you can't go by that, mother, Gee,
I gotta get my pearls for it starts to pour.
It's not going to rain, perhaps not, but there's no
use taking chances.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
We'll see how things look in an hour or so.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
And then, hey, look outside, daddy's got the kite done
and he's gonna fly it with this storm coming up.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Who's he think he is? Benjamin Franklin.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Mother, I've just got to go.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Oh boy, look at daddy burn. Oh no, mother, it's
not going to rain today.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Hey, yup, the kite's flying, Mommy, they got it.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Out, yes, and look at it rain. There it comes.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Oh, creepers, you'd think they'd have sense enough to come
in out of the rain. Here comes buck. Look at
your father standing out there, getting soaking wet.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Oil boy, it's really coming down out there.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I'll get your things off and put on some dry clothes.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
I'm not with just my jacket.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
We'll get that off, hang it in front of the heater. Okay,
I guess we could stand to turn the lights on too.
It's certainly getting dark.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, that's better, creepers.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Gee, Daddy sure must like kite.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Isn't he coming in yet? Man? What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
The string broke? There goes the kite.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, well let's see. Well maybe he'll come in now.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
No more hit.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Did you see it, Margaret? We sure had her.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Flying, yes, And you'd better change your clothes and we'll
be flying you to the hospital.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Yepe, look at that lightning.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Start counting quick.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
One, two, three, four?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Boy, that's close about a mile.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Oops, they're going to lights must have been closer than that.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Criepers.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Now we're stuck here.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Hey, it's dark. Where am i?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
It's not that dark, but but it's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Nothing, that's what we're going to do. Just plain nothing,
no electricity.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
No nothing.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Now wait a minute, I think this is just fine
with lights, some candles, build a fire in the fireplace.
When I was a kid on the farm, we didn't
have electricity.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Oh father, we can't even turn on the radio.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
The lights will probably be on again in a few minutes.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Now, if they're out all over the neighborhood it it'd
be a long while before they get them on.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Oh dum, what are you complaining about, princess? You can
live without electricity? Out on the farm, we manage very nicely.
In fact, I think it'll do this family a lot
of good to get along for a few hours without
having everything run by push buttons. Things are getting entirely
too automatic around here.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
How are we going to see with candles?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
People got around by candlelight for centuries.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
We have no heat there the electric control on the furnace.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Honey.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
We can live without an electrically.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Controlled furnace too. Back on the farm, we got along
very nicely.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
But we're not back on the farm.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Well, I have things to do, honey. Mort lewis from
the home offices in town. I have to meet him
down at the hotel at seven o'clock. I have to
get ready to go.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I have to get my reports in order.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Well, I don't see how we're going to do anything.
Now wait if I just as well we all sit
down like where we are and just sit.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
I can't see my own hands before my own face.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Now stop complaining. This can be an interesting and educational experience.
You saw how I made that kite for butt out
of that old umbrella.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
You're gonna make another kite?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
No, but we're going to take advantage of the electricity
being all, We're going to make do with what we have.
We're going to know the joy and satisfaction of being
able to live for a little while without all our
super civilized conveniences. We'll live just as our grandparents did.
What do you say, all right, dear?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Okay, sure, Princess, yes, grandfather.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Well, you know, maybe Jim has something hmm, living like
our grandparents. But they had their problems too.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
You bet they did. And one of them is the
same problem that bothers some of us today. Sleeplessness. Sleeplessness
and jittery nerves brought on by the caffeine and coffee
or tea.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 8 (15:20):
Friend, course, caffeine doesn't bother everybody. Lots of folks can
handle it. But if caffeine keeps you up nights, if
you're one of those folks who shouldn't really drink coffee
or tea because it makes you nervous and irritable.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Listen to me.
Speaker 8 (15:37):
Switch to post him completely caffeine free post him. Yes,
try instant post him for just ten days, I mean
post instead of coffee or tea, so there's no chance
for coffeers.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Do that, will you? I'll bet you sleep.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
I'll bet you sleep like a baby, yes, sir, and
feel better too, better than you have in years.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
See.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
If you don't get a jar of instant post Him
and drink instant post Him exclusively for just ten days,
then you.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Be the judge.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Well, let's see how the Andersons are getting along with
the primitive life. This Saturday has turned out to be
one of those days when Jim Anderson is convinced that
by George, modern day living is entirely too dependent on
the so called conveniences of our time.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
So this evening, with.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
A good rainstorm in progress outside and the electricity out
of commission in the neighborhood, the folks in the white
frame house on Maple Street are being initiated into life,
as Jim insists, it was lived in the good old
days like this.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
How are we gonna see? It's dark in here?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Stop gallowing and find some candles.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
I can't even find out where I am.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I think there's some candles up on the top shelf
of the pantry. Where's the pantry?
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Who let a dog in here?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Dog?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I can feel his fur that's the top of my head.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Oh yeah, let's stop milling around. I think I found
the door to the pantry.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
You say the candles were on the top shelf.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
They should be up there.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Of all the dumb things, the lights couldn't go out
any other night. I still don't see why I can't
go to the movie with Ralph.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
I'm not in this rain in that old car of his.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Well, what'll I tell him what he call?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Well?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Just tell him, Oh, that would be peachy.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I can't go to the movie with you, Ralph, because
your top leaks.
Speaker 9 (17:53):
I can't find any candles in here, Margaret, or maybe
they're in the garage.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I go out and look, Oh, you can't go out
without the umbrella. It's in the broom closet, not anymore,
it isn't.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Wait.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Look in the odds and ends draw I think I
saw a candle in there.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Where are you, Jim, I'm here?
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Where are you?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Lost in our own kitchen? Why doesn't somebody light a match?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Oh? I found the drawer.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Ah, success, here's a candle.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
One candle. Who could see anything with that?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
There?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
We have light, now, isn't that pretty? I will stick
this on a saucing.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
We'll have plenty of light.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
You see, it's possible to get along without electricity and
all these modern gadgets.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I'm getting hungry, mommy. How about dinner?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Sure, dinner by candlelight?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Well, you're the authority on the good old days, dear,
How do I cook dinner?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Build a fire in the sink?
Speaker 5 (18:54):
What's wrong with a stove?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Nothing except that it runs by electricity?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Well, can't see, can't eat, can't go any place?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Now, just hold your horses? Is that what they used
to say in the good old days?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Hold your lord?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Never mind?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Say I know how you can cook honey over the fireplace?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Oh no, in the living.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Room, certainly, Come on, I'll show you. Some of the
best cooking in history was done over an open fireplace.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
That's the way our forefathers did over cooking.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Daddy, this kitten.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Did you have four fathers? No, angel, he's talking about
our ancestors.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Oh yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Now look at that fireplace. Honey logs all there ready
to light. Hang some kettles alongside there. Could you ask
for a better way to cook than that?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
I could?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
But there's not much point in it.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
We'll have a cheery fire craw here in no time.
It just goes to prove out easily.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
We can get along without all the modern contraption, and
live more happily, more pleasantly.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
There you are right.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I get the old kettle boiling on that we'll have
dinner and fine style.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
What are we having for dinner? Mom?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Well, so far we're boiling an old kettle.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
You can cook anything in the fireplace that you can
cook on the fanciest kitchen stove. Heat is heat, whether
it comes from a burning log or an electric wire. Yes, sir,
we'd all be a lot better off if we got
back to the simple telephone.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I'll get it. It's probably for me. Give me the candle.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Oh, I'll bet that's Lewis calling from the hotel.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I answered it, father, where's the candle?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Now?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
You blew it out?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I didn't blow it out, somebody answered the phone.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I can't see a thing.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Get out of the way.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Where are you right? You're stepping all over me.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
For heaven's sake.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Can't you kids see where you're going? The telephone's in here?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Father, you're in the dining room.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Hello, she's here, Betty, I'm coming just a minute. Where's
the door?
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Yeah, but hold the candle. I'll light it again.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Was it like this in the good old days?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Dad, Yeah, we have a light again.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
No.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
The trouble with people nowadays but is that they've been
spoiled by too much civilization. Just soft, that's all. Come
on and bring the candle. I have to go upstairs
and shave, get cleaned up. Well, I do you stay
down here and help mother with dinner.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Let's go, Bud.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Hold a candle up You know, a candle makes pretty
good light when you get used to it.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Best light there is, easy on the eyes, no glare.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Are you gonna shave?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Dad?
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Easy? You hold a candle up here with a mirror.
I'll plug in my electric razor and.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Yeah, hmm, well I don't have to use the electric razer.
Must be one of my safety raisers here in the cabinet.
Sure here we are.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Uh, that might pull your whisky.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Here's a little why Mom used it to scrape the
paint off the windows.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
What, well, it must be another blade.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
She said. It was the only rays of blade in
the house.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Oh, for Pete's sake. Well, I'll have to go without shaving.
That's all. Come on downstairs, Bud.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Hey, I think I'll call Joe. With all the lights
out in the neighborhood, we could try out her weavers
tracking hound.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
No shave, he says, you can't.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Be sure hound is following his nose When the lights
are on, I wonder what time it is. Sometimes they
aren't really smelling, they're just looking.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Margaret, believe it or not, Dear, I have dinner cooking
in the fireplace. It's Jean, Daddy. We got a table
in front of the fire. It's real cozy.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
I'm gonna call Joe, Margaret father.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
It's going to be simply divine. Ralph and Janey and
her dad are coming over here instead of going to
the movies.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
All right, Princess, we're going to play.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
The piano and sing songs by candlelight. Doesn't it sound
simply too too romantic?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
That's great, Margaret. How am I going to meet Lewis
looking like this?
Speaker 5 (23:03):
No shave?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Well there, they didn't shave in the good old days.
The kettle's boiling. I'll get it, mother.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
I have to leave pretty soon. What time is it?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
We don't know electric clocks.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I left my wrist watch out in the garage on
the workbench.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Is it still raining, parring? Where's that old umbrella?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
You made the kite out of it?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Cobody at the door. Mother, I'll get it. Oh, hi, Jane, Hi,
Kathy always coming down in buckets, him, Missus Andrews and him,
Missus Anderson. Hi, Janney, take off your coat.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
We are the kids.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
They'll be over later. Gee, you don't have any lights either,
isn't it fun?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Fun? Huh?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
We're having a ball, we're cooking dinner in the fireplace.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
And Margaret, how am I going to meet Louis? I
can't go like this.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Well, we have the candle? Could you send your beard?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Well, if this is serious, I don't know what to do. Dear,
you were the one who knew all about the primitive life.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Oh, that's probably Lewis wanting to know where I am. Well,
I'm sunk, that's all. Just have to try to explain. Hello, Louis. Yes,
this is Jim Anderson. Yes I can hear you all right, Yes,
I know the powers off out here too. Well, sure,
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Monday will be fine. We'll make it Monday morning then
at the office.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Good thanks for calling. Goodbye.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
That was Lewis postponed the meeting until Monday.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
No lights in the hotel?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Oh, oh thank goodness.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Well I'll get ready for dinner, dear, oh, father, we
have the most terrific plans for this evening. We're going
to send it just like the kids did it the
old days.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
I don't know why everybody's so excited about.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
The old days.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
It has a primitive charm, mister Anderson, a quaint.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
And lovely maybe so, but I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Gee, I actually think we should be grateful to that
silly little kid.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
What silly little kid?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
What's this?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Jad?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Didn't you hear? Why the lights around?
Speaker 6 (25:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Well, some silly little kid was flying a kite made
out of umbrella ribs and it fell on a power transformer.
Now who do you suppose that silly little kid was.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
H Shall we have dinner?
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Oh? Goodness?
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Speaker 5 (25:56):
Mother. That's a swell to you.
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Speaker 5 (26:38):
See for yourself. They're good and so good for you.
What do you know?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
The lights are on again in Springfield. I guess that
winds up the hera of the good old days around.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
The white frame house on the street.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
And how does the head of the family feel about
all the modern contraptions at this point, Well, Jim and
Margaret have just retired at the end of this long
and busy day.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Margaret is saying, I guess Betty and her friends had
a nice evening around the fire.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
The dinner cooked in the fireplace wasn't so bad.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
In fact, I think you had a very good idea,
letting the children see what life was like without our
modern conveniences. It's certainly true we could get along very
nicely without them.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Honey, Yes, jir turn on the electric blanket.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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Speaker 4 (00:46):
It's a well known fact that the town of.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Springfield, where the Andersons live, is a fairly up to
date little communi and the Andersons.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Are a fairly up to date family.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
But every now and then the head of the Anderson
household becomes irt with a modern scheme of things and
insists on a return to the way things.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Were done in the good old days.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Take this Saturday afternoon, for example, Jim is out in
the garage with Bud building.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
What seems to be a kite. Any piece of string,
will you?
Speaker 6 (01:13):
But Dad, hurry up, I need a piece of string. Dad,
We're just going to a lot of work for nothing.
You can buy a kite at the drug store.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
For a dime, Bye, bye bye. That's all you kids
think of these days? Do you want to buy everything?
When I was a boy, we made most of our toys,
and we had a lot of fun doing it too.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Hurry up, how many piece of string?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
And our toys meant a.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Lot more to us too, uh huh, because we put
some time and effort into making them. We took pride in.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Them and took better care of them too.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
That ot a hole a crossbar. What we need now
is some glue. Have we got any?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
I don't think so. Do you want me to run
down to the drug store and get some?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Here you go again, run down to the drug store.
But what would you kids do if you didn't have
a drug store to run down too?
Speaker 6 (02:00):
I guess we'd have to run down to the market. Oh,
they carry the same stuff. Want me to run down?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
No, we don't have any glue or paste. We'll make some.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Make sound you.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Probably don't even know how to do that?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Oh, sure, with flour and water.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
But Mom says she doesn't like us kids getting in
the flower, and she says it's actually cheaper to buy
some paste.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Want me to buy some?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
No, I'd be.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Glad to and while on there, I could pick you
up a kite, pick me.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Up a kite.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
But this isn't for me. I'm making this kite for you.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Oh well, I don't care much for kites.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
All boys care for kites.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
You just have to feel the thrill of flying a
kite to become a real enthusiast.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Well, if that's for me, I don't want an old,
homemade one. You can buy a good one for a dime.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
What's wrong with this one we're making?
Speaker 6 (02:52):
I don't know. Real kites have sticks across flows. I
don't think those some Deller ribs will work.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So you used to work when I was a boy.
I've made a lot of kites this way. These metal
ribs are lighter than wooden, a lot stronger.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Daddy, How are you gonna get those ribs back on
the umbrella?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Oh that umbrella is not good anymore.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
In the garage, kitten, at the drug star, they got
box kites only fifteen cents.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
This kind flies better, say daddy, Come in, kitten and
watch how a real kite is put together.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I haven't got time. Can I have twenty cents?
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Twenty cents?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
What for?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I want to buy a pearl necklace.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
For twenty cents.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I know they're expensive, but Patty Davis has some, kitten.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
You can't buy pearls for twenty cents.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Well, maybe these aren't real, genuine pearls.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
They're probably just some old diamonds.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Can I have some?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Can I? Daddy?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Kitten? If you want a string of beads, why don't
you make some?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Make sense?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Yeah, out of umbrella ribs.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Oh, a lot of salt and water, and well, I
forget what else your mother will remember?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Go in and ask her.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I want some real beads.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Well, these are real beads. I remember when I was
a boy, you made beds. No, all that my sister did.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
They were very pretty too, she colored them all different colors.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Sounds pretty carny.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Well it's not.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Why about all that bother when you can run down
to the dining store and buy some good ones.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I'll swear. I don't know what's happening to you kids.
I think you're being destroyed by civilization. Well, what stores
have become entirely too handy. They're robbing you of all
the real pleasures and thrills of childhood. Twenty senses and much, Daddy,
Maybe we ought to sell this place and move out
into the country, a long way from stores and people.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
We'd get a place out there in Lakeview, heikes. We
could get a television set television. Yeah, they say they
can get two channels out there direct from Omaha.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Well, that's not the idea of moving out in the
country to get a television to get away from some things.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Come on, let's go into the house.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Aren't you going to finish your card?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Certainly? But but and I are going in to make
some paste.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
We are. Come on, okay, I'm coming.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
How about it, daddy? Can I have the pearls?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Why don't you try making some? Maybe you'll discover it's
a lot of fun. You'll never find out if you
don't try.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Patty Davis has some real.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
But she's missing the thrill and pride and owning something
she's created herself.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Eh, yew, what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I don't know?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Just it.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Well, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
When I was a boy, we didn't have one tenth
of things kids nowadays have. And I can see now
that it was an advantage. Taught us how to be
resourceful and imaginative and handy and quente and kitten. Hurry up, Bud,
I'm coming. That screen door certainly needs fixing, Margaret. You
want to get someone to fix that backscreen door.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Well, I've been trying to get someone to do it,
and you know who.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
H yes, Well I'll take care of it all right, Bud.
I get out some flour and put it in there.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Oh what are you going to do, big bread?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
No, just gonna make a little kite paste.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Oh that's so messy, dear.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
It's much simpler and cheaper to run down to the
store and buy something.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
We're going to make this paste ourselves.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I want to show budd it's such unnecessary bother.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
I'll take care of the bother.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
But get out some flour and put it in a
bowl and put some water with it. Okay, Margaret, do
you remember how to make those salt beads or whatever
they are, salt beads?
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I used to make them when you were a kid.
You remember, Oh.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeahs those things they'd crumble about as fast as you
made them. We have some cheen pearl necklaces at the
Star for twenty cent I've seen.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Them, the very nice.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Oh wait a minute, Margaret, if you just think bad
and remember the fu thrill of making ad. What is it, Bud?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
This stuff is all lumpy.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
I can't get it smooth enough for paste.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Oh here, maybe you're not doing it right. The way
to do it is.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, there's pretty lumpy.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
You better get another batch and start over.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Jim, there's a job paste on the shelf in the
broom closet. Why don't you use that?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Because we're making paste, that's why.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Mother, Yeah, it seems pretty ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Mother.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Can I go over to Lynnville tonight?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
To Lynnville?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
You see?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Oh? Hello, father?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Oh, princess third fast to this time? Bud?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
What's going on here? A cooking school?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
No, this is a paste factory. Why do you wanna
go to Lynnville?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Well, Ralph and a bunch of us are going to
movie over there.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Drive clear to Lynnville just to see a movie. We've
got movies right here in Springfield.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yes, But this is three D.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Three D. They get the strangest names for pictures these days.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Oh, father, don't be so utterly model team?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
What have I done wrong? Now?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Three D dance for three dimensional? Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yes, that's right, it does, doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Everyone knows that. Can I go with you? Buddy, No,
you're too little. I'm not so little. I'm gonna get
some genuine curls.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Dad, I want to go.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I'm not so sure anybody's going Dad.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Oh, now, father, it's practically all arranged AND's gone.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
And what's the matter with the pictures we already have?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Are you kids so completely lacking in imagination that you
can't even look at a two dimensional movie anymore?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Dad? Yes, it's lumpy again.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
M Well, maybe you better get that pace in the
broom closet. No need to waste the whole day on
one operation.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Mother, May I go? Please?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Where's your father? Seems to be against it.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I'm not against going to Lynnville, but I'd like to
see you have a good reason to go there.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
I remember when I was a boy.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yes, when Daddy was a boy, he made bes out
of umbrellas.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
He did walk.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
He told us out in the garage.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
No, I didn't kidd, And you've got things a little
mixed up.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Well can I go?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Father?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I guess so, but it seems a little ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Oh, thank you, father, you're a doll.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Look like it might rain by evening, though I don't
want you out driving in a storm.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It is plodding over.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Oh, it won't rain. Can I go too? No, this
is just for grown ups.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Wouldn't be room anyway.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Oh heck, can I have those pearls? Daddy?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So, come on, Bud, let's get out and finish our kite.
Hurry up, Bud, I wanna get this door fixed sometimes.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Wait a minute, dear, what about all this flower and water?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Are you gonna leave it sitting here? Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
So the way, it's no good.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
It's long fee Let's go, Bud.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
All that flower wasted?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
How do you make salt beads? Mommy? I don't think
I remember, Betty. If you do drive over there tonight,
try to get home early, or we'll get back as
soon as we can. We'll start back right after the movie,
honest we will. I certainly don't like the way it's
clouding up. What's the weather forecast.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
For the day?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Did you read it this morning? No?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
But it's not going to rain. It just can't. It
would spoil everything.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Daddy, hand me the morning paper there, win him? Oh,
don't look it up much. Well, it won't hurt to check. Well.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Here, it is increasing cloudiness with possible showers this afternoon
and evening. Oh you can't go by that, mother, Gee,
I gotta get my pearls for it starts to pour.
It's not going to rain, perhaps not, but there's no
use taking chances.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
We'll see how things look in an hour or so.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
And then, hey, look outside, daddy's got the kite done
and he's gonna fly it with this storm coming up.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Who's he think he is? Benjamin Franklin.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Mother, I've just got to go.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Oh boy, look at daddy burn. Oh no, mother, it's
not going to rain today.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Hey, yup, the kite's flying, Mommy, they got it.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Out, yes, and look at it rain. There it comes.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Oh, creepers, you'd think they'd have sense enough to come
in out of the rain. Here comes buck. Look at
your father standing out there, getting soaking wet.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Oil boy, it's really coming down out there.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I'll get your things off and put on some dry clothes.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
I'm not with just my jacket.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
We'll get that off, hang it in front of the heater. Okay,
I guess we could stand to turn the lights on too.
It's certainly getting dark.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, that's better, creepers.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Gee, Daddy sure must like kite.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Isn't he coming in yet? Man? What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
The string broke? There goes the kite.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, well let's see. Well maybe he'll come in now.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
No more hit.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Did you see it, Margaret? We sure had her.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Flying, yes, And you'd better change your clothes and we'll
be flying you to the hospital.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Yepe, look at that lightning.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Start counting quick.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
One, two, three, four?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Boy, that's close about a mile.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Oops, they're going to lights must have been closer than that.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Criepers.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Now we're stuck here.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Hey, it's dark. Where am i?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
It's not that dark, but but it's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Nothing, that's what we're going to do. Just plain nothing,
no electricity.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
No nothing.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Now wait a minute, I think this is just fine
with lights, some candles, build a fire in the fireplace.
When I was a kid on the farm, we didn't
have electricity.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Oh father, we can't even turn on the radio.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
The lights will probably be on again in a few minutes.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Now, if they're out all over the neighborhood it it'd
be a long while before they get them on.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Oh dum, what are you complaining about, princess? You can
live without electricity? Out on the farm, we manage very nicely.
In fact, I think it'll do this family a lot
of good to get along for a few hours without
having everything run by push buttons. Things are getting entirely
too automatic around here.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
How are we going to see with candles?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
People got around by candlelight for centuries.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
We have no heat there the electric control on the furnace.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Honey.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
We can live without an electrically.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Controlled furnace too. Back on the farm, we got along
very nicely.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
But we're not back on the farm.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Well, I have things to do, honey. Mort lewis from
the home offices in town. I have to meet him
down at the hotel at seven o'clock. I have to
get ready to go.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I have to get my reports in order.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Well, I don't see how we're going to do anything.
Now wait if I just as well we all sit
down like where we are and just sit.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
I can't see my own hands before my own face.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Now stop complaining. This can be an interesting and educational experience.
You saw how I made that kite for butt out
of that old umbrella.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
You're gonna make another kite?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
No, but we're going to take advantage of the electricity
being all, We're going to make do with what we have.
We're going to know the joy and satisfaction of being
able to live for a little while without all our
super civilized conveniences. We'll live just as our grandparents did.
What do you say, all right, dear?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Okay, sure, Princess, yes, grandfather.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Well, you know, maybe Jim has something hmm, living like
our grandparents. But they had their problems too.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
You bet they did. And one of them is the
same problem that bothers some of us today. Sleeplessness. Sleeplessness
and jittery nerves brought on by the caffeine and coffee
or tea.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 8 (15:20):
Friend, course, caffeine doesn't bother everybody. Lots of folks can
handle it. But if caffeine keeps you up nights, if
you're one of those folks who shouldn't really drink coffee
or tea because it makes you nervous and irritable.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Listen to me.
Speaker 8 (15:37):
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Speaker 5 (15:52):
Do that, will you? I'll bet you sleep.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
I'll bet you sleep like a baby, yes, sir, and
feel better too, better than you have in years.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
See.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
If you don't get a jar of instant post Him
and drink instant post Him exclusively for just ten days,
then you.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Be the judge.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Well, let's see how the Andersons are getting along with
the primitive life. This Saturday has turned out to be
one of those days when Jim Anderson is convinced that
by George, modern day living is entirely too dependent on
the so called conveniences of our time.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
So this evening, with.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
A good rainstorm in progress outside and the electricity out
of commission in the neighborhood, the folks in the white
frame house on Maple Street are being initiated into life,
as Jim insists, it was lived in the good old
days like this.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
How are we gonna see? It's dark in here?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Stop gallowing and find some candles.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
I can't even find out where I am.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I think there's some candles up on the top shelf
of the pantry. Where's the pantry?
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Who let a dog in here?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Dog?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I can feel his fur that's the top of my head.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Oh yeah, let's stop milling around. I think I found
the door to the pantry.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
You say the candles were on the top shelf.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
They should be up there.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Of all the dumb things, the lights couldn't go out
any other night. I still don't see why I can't
go to the movie with Ralph.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
I'm not in this rain in that old car of his.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Well, what'll I tell him what he call?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Well?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Just tell him, Oh, that would be peachy.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I can't go to the movie with you, Ralph, because
your top leaks.
Speaker 9 (17:53):
I can't find any candles in here, Margaret, or maybe
they're in the garage.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I go out and look, Oh, you can't go out
without the umbrella. It's in the broom closet, not anymore,
it isn't.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Wait.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Look in the odds and ends draw I think I
saw a candle in there.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Where are you, Jim, I'm here?
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Where are you?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Lost in our own kitchen? Why doesn't somebody light a match?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Oh? I found the drawer.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Ah, success, here's a candle.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
One candle. Who could see anything with that?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
There?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
We have light, now, isn't that pretty? I will stick
this on a saucing.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
We'll have plenty of light.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
You see, it's possible to get along without electricity and
all these modern gadgets.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I'm getting hungry, mommy. How about dinner?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Sure, dinner by candlelight?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Well, you're the authority on the good old days, dear,
How do I cook dinner?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Build a fire in the sink?
Speaker 5 (18:54):
What's wrong with a stove?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Nothing except that it runs by electricity?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Well, can't see, can't eat, can't go any place?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Now, just hold your horses? Is that what they used
to say in the good old days?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Hold your lord?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Never mind?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Say I know how you can cook honey over the fireplace?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Oh no, in the living.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Room, certainly, Come on, I'll show you. Some of the
best cooking in history was done over an open fireplace.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
That's the way our forefathers did over cooking.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Daddy, this kitten.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Did you have four fathers? No, angel, he's talking about
our ancestors.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Oh yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Now look at that fireplace. Honey logs all there ready
to light. Hang some kettles alongside there. Could you ask
for a better way to cook than that?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
I could?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
But there's not much point in it.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
We'll have a cheery fire craw here in no time.
It just goes to prove out easily.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
We can get along without all the modern contraption, and
live more happily, more pleasantly.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
There you are right.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I get the old kettle boiling on that we'll have
dinner and fine style.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
What are we having for dinner? Mom?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Well, so far we're boiling an old kettle.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
You can cook anything in the fireplace that you can
cook on the fanciest kitchen stove. Heat is heat, whether
it comes from a burning log or an electric wire. Yes, sir,
we'd all be a lot better off if we got
back to the simple telephone.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I'll get it. It's probably for me. Give me the candle.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Oh, I'll bet that's Lewis calling from the hotel.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I answered it, father, where's the candle?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Now?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
You blew it out?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I didn't blow it out, somebody answered the phone.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I can't see a thing.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Get out of the way.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Where are you right? You're stepping all over me.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
For heaven's sake.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Can't you kids see where you're going? The telephone's in here?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Father, you're in the dining room.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Hello, she's here, Betty, I'm coming just a minute. Where's
the door?
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Yeah, but hold the candle. I'll light it again.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Was it like this in the good old days?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Dad, Yeah, we have a light again.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
No.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
The trouble with people nowadays but is that they've been
spoiled by too much civilization. Just soft, that's all. Come
on and bring the candle. I have to go upstairs
and shave, get cleaned up. Well, I do you stay
down here and help mother with dinner.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Let's go, Bud.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Hold a candle up You know, a candle makes pretty
good light when you get used to it.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Best light there is, easy on the eyes, no glare.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Are you gonna shave?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Dad?
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Easy? You hold a candle up here with a mirror.
I'll plug in my electric razor and.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Yeah, hmm, well I don't have to use the electric razer.
Must be one of my safety raisers here in the cabinet.
Sure here we are.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Uh, that might pull your whisky.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Here's a little why Mom used it to scrape the
paint off the windows.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
What, well, it must be another blade.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
She said. It was the only rays of blade in
the house.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Oh, for Pete's sake. Well, I'll have to go without shaving.
That's all. Come on downstairs, Bud.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Hey, I think I'll call Joe. With all the lights
out in the neighborhood, we could try out her weavers
tracking hound.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
No shave, he says, you can't.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Be sure hound is following his nose When the lights
are on, I wonder what time it is. Sometimes they
aren't really smelling, they're just looking.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Margaret, believe it or not, Dear, I have dinner cooking
in the fireplace. It's Jean, Daddy. We got a table
in front of the fire. It's real cozy.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
I'm gonna call Joe, Margaret father.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
It's going to be simply divine. Ralph and Janey and
her dad are coming over here instead of going to
the movies.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
All right, Princess, we're going to play.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
The piano and sing songs by candlelight. Doesn't it sound
simply too too romantic?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
That's great, Margaret. How am I going to meet Lewis
looking like this?
Speaker 5 (23:03):
No shave?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Well there, they didn't shave in the good old days.
The kettle's boiling. I'll get it, mother.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
I have to leave pretty soon. What time is it?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
We don't know electric clocks.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I left my wrist watch out in the garage on
the workbench.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Is it still raining, parring? Where's that old umbrella?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
You made the kite out of it?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Cobody at the door. Mother, I'll get it. Oh, hi, Jane, Hi,
Kathy always coming down in buckets, him, Missus Andrews and him,
Missus Anderson. Hi, Janney, take off your coat.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
We are the kids.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
They'll be over later. Gee, you don't have any lights either,
isn't it fun?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Fun? Huh?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
We're having a ball, we're cooking dinner in the fireplace.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
And Margaret, how am I going to meet Louis? I
can't go like this.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Well, we have the candle? Could you send your beard?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Well, if this is serious, I don't know what to do. Dear,
you were the one who knew all about the primitive life.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Oh, that's probably Lewis wanting to know where I am. Well,
I'm sunk, that's all. Just have to try to explain. Hello, Louis. Yes,
this is Jim Anderson. Yes I can hear you all right, Yes,
I know the powers off out here too. Well, sure,
(24:28):
Monday will be fine. We'll make it Monday morning then
at the office.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Good thanks for calling. Goodbye.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
That was Lewis postponed the meeting until Monday.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
No lights in the hotel?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Oh, oh thank goodness.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Well I'll get ready for dinner, dear, oh, father, we
have the most terrific plans for this evening. We're going
to send it just like the kids did it the
old days.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
I don't know why everybody's so excited about.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
The old days.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
It has a primitive charm, mister Anderson, a quaint.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
And lovely maybe so, but I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Gee, I actually think we should be grateful to that
silly little kid.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
What silly little kid?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
What's this?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Jad?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Didn't you hear? Why the lights around?
Speaker 6 (25:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Well, some silly little kid was flying a kite made
out of umbrella ribs and it fell on a power transformer.
Now who do you suppose that silly little kid was.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
H Shall we have dinner?
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Oh? Goodness?
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What do you know?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
The lights are on again in Springfield. I guess that
winds up the hera of the good old days around.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
The white frame house on the street.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
And how does the head of the family feel about
all the modern contraptions at this point, Well, Jim and
Margaret have just retired at the end of this long
and busy day.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Margaret is saying, I guess Betty and her friends had
a nice evening around the fire.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
The dinner cooked in the fireplace wasn't so bad.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
In fact, I think you had a very good idea,
letting the children see what life was like without our
modern conveniences. It's certainly true we could get along very
nicely without them.
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Honey, Yes, jir turn on the electric blanket.
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