Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1836-04-05
VI isccli ny.
HOW THEY DiD THINGS FORTY YEARS
SINCE.


amusing and ns,toei,ns. contains an article under
the above title purporng % be letter from LAvee
ToDD. to the editors. very interesting subject,
~ill be seen, To the present rising generation
FROM which We make The folloAing esttact.--Ep.
iIKEALp.
log on "lIarrson's New York Musuemr for 7a5
81, etc. It brings up actors aud scenes long
shifted from time to eternity It afo recalls
the scenes Of youth and II appears t. me
that Providence has constituted our naiute, that
The mind rcts,ns more Of the pleasures than of the
pains. IN hias i,oruc5.
The poems, sonne,s Acrostcks and anecdotes
with the association of ideas thcrcwith connected I:
the deaths, marriages.. sad weekly OCCURRENCES
which these old volumes coolaiu. make me live a.
gain 'The days o'lsngst 6e.' When Du,ch man
pers, Dutch fashions. Dutch ships prevailed We had
more arrivals from Amsterdam thcu tia. London
and Liverpool put together. Then the floors were
scrubbed Saturday, aud sprnklel over with
white sand from Coney leland or Rockaway Beach:
arug earpe, and green Windsor chair was luAa.
~. Then the ladies used rocking chairs bo,tomcd
with the rOshes which grew ia the il1ckensack
swamp, snd now they must have Turkey carpets
from the cellar TO the garrett rocking chairs stuff
led behind aud before, above sud below, gldcd on
the top, aud the rockers brought from ST. Domib-
20. not to rock the child, bat TO rock Themselves
asleep then we bought rocking -chair for fifty
cents, now they will ask you fifty dollars. Then
descent couple. having previously formed a treaty
offensive and defensive, would walk out alone by
themselves at eigh, P. NJ, call on Doctor Rogers,
IN PIne-street DIR. Linn, IN ra,-sireet; or Bsn-
Up Provost. IN Des street, There were 40 livery
coaches 10 hire IN New York AT that time There
Ma no rar.tfDty had.
groom s-mpn along the doctors tian and his la
dy's maid were always OF home about the marry
g-time, dressed for Attendance, as Witnesses of
the ceremony, and the doctor or bishop thought
themselves comfortably paid when they received
two dollars and tho pair as 6ru.ly chained
the bands of wedluck az they are now, when. as
ain told, they Will actually pay five hundred dollars
for getting buckled together. have heard It as
serted as fact. that the camelia flowers, roses,
gcranlulns and mountain dslscs now thought ne
cessary 10 stick on the asses' head, when they
are gong TO be married. vail sometimes cost more
than fny dollars and that is more than II used to
cost to begin housekeeping wiki, when We got
olarrled forty years ago; thea man would wait
in his store, or work iu his shop all day and get
quietly married at night, aud go Out ~ the morn
ing 70 follow his usual occupation, with all the
Der realities OF life on his back. Now they get
married at six A. NJ. drive to the steamboat 10 10
Albany, Schenectady, Ba!lson aud the springs, ra-
cling and running If ashamed to be seen. | can
not see what persons are ashamed of, for the Bble
itself says at is an honorable concern to be mar
RED !" besides, this new-iashIoned, runaway match
racing, is great waste of siHer; a. ! hase heard
of some who spent ten or twelve hundred dollars
in one week on this wild seampcr. Now, ii this
money had been pot in the sawng-bank till their
eldest son 10 be sixteen years of age, the IN
teres, would have paid for giving him u college cd
ucaton.
Forty years ago when the ludes went to tea
party, each one took her knitting or sewing then
thci, taper fingers kept pace with the music Of
their tongues; now they ride IN carriage-but
having relthor wcrsted OF needles they lost /;
they look round aud they walk round examine the
album. the prints and the newspaper, read the mar
uages and throw It down; take up Irving or Scott
read five lines and shut the book, commence a dis
seriation Madam pimpernlll's uppeis or
Wreckmels'er's toys, or may be on SignuTa-'s
singing, or Madam C.'s dancing then miss.
musical than the rest, whl squeak forth al
Italian air. or opera sonnei,o IN voice that would
make the composer stare and stop his cars and
this lie what hey call refinement on the days OF
their grandmothers.
For the benefit Of bachelors. tsho are continual
ly hunting for happiness but HE tic dog in the
woods, are always barking up the wrong treej !
viii conclude By stating, knew come u, their grand
fathers who commenced housekeeping, when IAeif
whole STOCK OF goods and chaues dad not amount
TO two hundred dollars, and they lived az Lapp,
then, as some Of the folks do now, Who viii slcnd
a. many Thousands TO furnish their house. In those
times the bachelor went empty handed, Ike the
birds 10 the spring be chose mate, together they
went, they gathered the sticks ani built nest,
thus holding the mirror up " nature = but nov
they 60 forward with rclrosrsde motion they
muss needs build ne-,, before they look for 4
bird or 10 other words they cauno, marry uuul
they are able TO furnish thgec-story buck house
ri they have gsiacfcd ten thousand dollars 10
trade on; tai they cau thtoS ssay hye OF Elk hun
dred IN night, GA What they cal giriag a purity
which means n plain Scotch tao Or three rooms
slowed fall OF simple inca and suly soncu, eating
leseream with teaspoon. four or f,o tlackam1ors
earring plate o. Ella, iron. covered with bits OF
crystal. sPonge-ehae. "a "a name notices. blsuc
mango and black muuge spnukled no~ ADD then
with m0d,eun q tie --latest smal-tsk that ! ey-
tf heard 10 NY lie. I DO think iks - The simplcs,