The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-11
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Olden Times.


In those days people drank green tea
ate heavy suppers, and went to bed with
warming pans and nightcaps, and slept
upon feather beds with curtains around
them and dreaded free air in their rooms
as much as sensible people nowadays
dread to be without it. And if they heard
noise In the night they got up and crop
ed about IN the dark, and procured light
with much difficulty, with flint and steel
and finder, and unpleasant sulphur match
es. And went to the medicine chest and
took calomel, and blue pills and salts and
sena, and jalap, and rhubarb.
In those days the fine gentlemen tippled
old Jamaica and bitters in the morning,
and lawyers took their clients to the side
board for dram, while the fine ladies
lounged on sofas, reading Byron, Moore,
and Scott. is. tlsa
In those days, long leather fire buckets
were hung in the entries, filled with water,
and when fire broke out every citizen
was fireman.
In those days gentlemen chewed tobac-
co, Indifferent where they expectorated,
and ladies cleaned their dental pearlswith
snuff, wore thin shoes, and laced into fem
mime wasps and consumption Babies
were put to sleep with spanking and par
egoric and urchins were iogged at school
and subjected to all sorts OF unheard of
chastisements. Picture books and toys
were dear and poor Big boys played
"hockey" in the street with crooked sticks
and hard wooden balls, policemen being
unknown, and went home totheir mothers
to have broken shins Amounted with ope-
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! Street fights then occurred between
schools, and schoolmasters were prosecuted
| by the biggest boys. Young ladies dane
] ed nothing but formal and decorous cotil-
Ions, or fast and furious Virginia reels, in
wide entry halls, by the light of candles
that called for shutters every ten minutes,
to music by black fiddlers or cracked and
| jingpanes; while mothers sat darning stock
ings, and fathers played backgammon, or
gambled, swigged brandy and water,
came home late, roaring bachanalian songs
and inquiring Of their sleepy wives which
brown parcel the milk was wrapped up
! in.
Boarding school misses in calico gowns,
practiced the Battle of Prague" "Caliph
of Bagdad," or "Clementinis Sonatas,n on
! Instruments not much bigger than mod
|
with iingling wires that were constantly
swapping; and occasionally chirping Tom
Moore's melodies or such airs as "Gsily
the Troubadour," or THE Banks Of the
Blue-oo-oo he-he-he-helle"
Guests sat on hard wooden chairs, some
times with their feet up overcoming wood
fires, splitter aroundand maxim 'emselves
sociable" withjuleps, egg-nogg, applesand
cider
| Every man shaved, wore bell-crowned
hst, O swallowed tailed coat, with horse
collar, carried turnip-shaped time-keep-
er in his waistband, with heavy seal
hanging out; had his breeches pocket full
of silver half dollars; wore round toed
boots and linnen shirts, cased his throat
with standing shirt collars, ate all man
ner Of nauseous quack medicines, dined at
| o'clock, (some families eating the pud-
ding before the meaD; took maps in the
afternoon-on Sundays preferring the pews
OF the church for that purpose; smoked
'long mines, ate fried oysters and lobster
salad, and drank fiery Madeira or punch
at II o'clock at night. Got his feet wet
on slushy days, took awful colds andrheu-
matisms, sent for DR.. Sangrado and was
bled, blistered and leeched; had night
mare, headache, dyspepsia, fever, delirium,
death and darkened room-ErcbGnge.
| AURIcULAR CONFESSION IN THE EPIsco-
PAL CHURCH-The CatItoJ5c World, which,
by the way, is very ably conducted and
constantly improving periodical, says in
its number for June
"There is no doubt that there is quite
party in the Episcopal Church which up
holds the practice of auriculdr confession,
and seeks to extend it. There are minis
tiers of that communion who are anxious
to set up the confessional, and disposed to
teach its necessity. In the city of New
| I ork it is well known that the clergy of
st. Adams are soIicitous to hear confes-
sions, and love to be styled tdtbor8, on ac-
count Of their spiritual relation to their
penitents. The Rev. DR.. Dix the respect
ed rector of Trinity Church, the oldest
and most influential corporation of his de-
nomination. is said to have quite number
of penitents and to be the most popular
confessor, especially among the higher
class. We presume he makes no secret of
his practice, while his position as the
spiritual director of the Sisters of St.
Mary is notorious"
And it adds, further on
"How many of the Bishops favor au-
ricular confession does not appear So
far as we have heard, no one has openly
recommended it; but the Right Reverend
Dr. Potter of New York, has allowed a
manual to be dedicated to him. in which
the practice is strongly urged, and de
votions for its use are extracted from
Catholic Prayer books. While he has re-
buked the Rev. M Tying for preaching
in Methodist Church he goes openly toI
st. Albans, and to say the least, gives
sanction to the Ritualist performances.
We have right, then,to conclude that he
favors the confessional, and is willing to
set it up in the churches that he superin
tends