TAILIEUCHUNG - Customs and Fashions in Old New England

From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England he had a Spartan struggle for life. In summer-time he fared comparatively well, but in winter the ill-heated houses of the colonists gave to him a most chilling and benumbing welcome. Within the great open fireplace, when fairly scorched in the face by the glowing flames of the roaring wood fire, he might be bathed and dressed, and he might be cuddled and nursed in warmth and comfort; but all his baby hours could not be spent in the ingleside, and were he carried four feet away from the chimney on. | Customs and Fashions in Old New England by 1 MANY BOOKS .h. L CUSTOMS AND FASHIONS IN OLD NEW ENGLAND Alice Morse Earle COMPLETE UNABRÍDGED Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Customs and Fashions in Old New England Author Alice Morse Earle Release Date January 4 2008 EBook 24159 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CUSTOMS IN OLD NEW ENGLAND Produced by K. Nordquist Annie McGuire and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive Canadian Libraries CUSTOMS AND FASHIONS IN OLD NEW ENGLAND BY ALICE MORSE EARLE Customs and Fashions in Old New England by 2 Let us thank God for having given us such ancestors and let each successive generation thank him not less fervently for being one step further from them in the march of ages. NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER S SONS 1894 COPYRIGHT 1893 BY CHARLES SCRIBNER S SONS TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK BY THE SAME AUTHOR. CHINA COLLECTING IN AMERICA. With 75 Illustrations. Square 8vo . THE SABBATH IN PURITAN NEW ENGLAND. 12mo . To the Memory of my Father CONTENTS PAGE I. CHILD LIFE 1 II. COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE CUSTOMS 36 III. DOMESTIC SERVICE 82 IV. HOME INTERIORS 107 V. TABLE PLENISHINGS 132 VI. SUPPLIES OF THE LARDER 146 VII. OLD COLONIAL DRINKS AND DRINKERS 163 VIII. TRAVEL TAVERN AND TURNPIKE 184 IX. HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS 214 X. SPORTS AND DIVERSIONS 234 XI. BOOKS AND BOOK-MAKERS 257 XII. ARTIFICES OF HANDSOMENESS 289 XIII. RAIMENT AND VESTURE 314 XIV. DOCTORS AND PATIENTS 331 XV. FUNERAL AND BURIAL CUSTOMS 364 I Customs and Fashions in Old New England by CHILD LIFE 3 From

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