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IInteresting Paper by MissIris Haverstack.CUSTOMS OF THE PIONEERS.Costumes of the Belles of For-The people were a very energetioclass and started to work at sunrise. They also retired early unless the children, as they do now. wanted to 1 stay up longer. For lighting, they used candles, and mothers in those days were just as careful of the cost of candles as mothers in these days are of gas. One young girl used to lie down in bed and placing the fiat bottom of her candlestick on her chest, read until 12 or 1 o’clock. In the morning the mother would say, “Why, Mary Ann, I can’t see how you used up your candle so soon.Wild grapes, large plums and nuts of all kinds grew in abundance. So likewise did wild cranberries. Butmer Days—Quaker Weddingin the Old ChurcH in KendalCanton Has Never Recovered From Her Attack ofJealousy.The material for the following paper was obtained from a conversation with Mrs. Mary Ann Brown, and was written by Miss Iris Haverstack for the high school celebration of OhioDay:In 1826 Mr. Amasa Bailey moved with his family from Middlebury, O., to Kendal. An Owenite society had I ® 1 . . ? \ ay!apples and peaches were very scarce. There was only one orchard near Massillon where peaches could be found. Wild flowers grew everywhere. In the kitchen of every house was a large fireplace and the flames leaping p to the wide chimney surrounded '■•he old Dutch oven. This was a wide, flat-bottomed iion kettle, about eight inches high, covered with a lid. In | this the good housewife baked her bread, meat, pies and cakes. How delightful it must have been to come out of the cold into the warmth of the fire, roaring and crackling, and to smell something good in the oven ready for supper.Thanksgiving and New Year wereFor their feastBeleoted Kendal for its home and Mr. Bailey was one of a board of trustees empowered to buy land for the society. Mr. Bailey had a daughter ten years old, and this daughter, now eighty-seven years of age, furnished the following description of life in the early days of Kendal and Massillon.The Owenites purchased land from the Thomas Rotch estate through Ar* vine Wales, the administrator. They also bought other pieces of property, among which was the woolen mill at that time leased by Mr. Charles Skinner, and the large brick house, still standing in Kendal, where the Owenites did their domestic work.aviHq! nlonf.people had just what we have today, with the addition of a roast pig. This delicaoy they also bad on the Fourth of July. On Christmas the children always hung up their stockings, but very seldom received more than a pound of raisins or some candy. Candy was very scaroe and it was a great treat to receive any. Bears, snakes and deer were found, but no unfriendly Indians. The women spun their own yarn but had it woven and dyed at the factory. Dressmakers had a great deal more to do in those days than now, for there were no sewing machines and the dresses were very elaborate.Two dancing costumes were made, one of white book muslin, the other
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Massillon Evening Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Sat, Feb 28, 1903
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