, 1874-10-11
ANCIENT SHOPPING.

What Great Great Grandmamms
Used to Buy.
Dry-Goods "Openings" a Hun
dred Years Ago.
| How ou- g1ea.-grandmothers and grestgreat
grandmothers
WENT SHOPPING,
| and what they bought, i century ago, has ne
doubt pu.xlad the brains OF many fair anl
fashionable maid or dame OF the present day, il
she has ever taken tho trouble to think about the
matter It all The progenitors Of many among
ua had not yet reached those shores, but there
"et.o OF us who cau trace our American sucestry
-aek fos five, six, and even seven generations,
before ne need 90 beyond the sea to follow
it to its original son-ce. Even the most III
hitions searcher after hera1dlc emb1ems must
stop Il long way this aldo OF the
"grand old gardener" ~;sh so11e barher-es,r-
eeon or soinat:4in; of tho I.l1, a:,j lump all
those who preceded him together as the connect
iug links between that came barbar-surCeon, OF
chiof~bu:'er. and Noah, Adam, or the monkey.
Very proud arc We who1e great-grsat-grand-
mothers. q century or moro ago, bought their
dry-goods in this country. don't know Th7 We
should be, hut We ara. HaVen't VIC glorious rec
olicotions Of an ocean OF tea. that was moro ex-
citing IN it's results than Iaac., stronger brew
ings might have been?
Tie time of rhic: We WISH TO speak was when
these combined kettls-dr1ns snd .nao9uerede-
parties fol- gent1emea onlT were quite the
fashion. There were soma for.a and settle
ments in tho Western country but, az Illinois
wsa not admitted to the Union until i8l8 il mag
safely bs inferred tia. tbs shopping cs-riod oa
at thai tma this piaee Gid not t1uubie the fair
sox much. In fact, buffalo-ro5es, beads sud
coon-eklns. probably formed the staple articles
of womaa's dress lu the Eastern citios. ho~-
over, opportunity was ofYe.el for the se1 to in-
dulgc themselves in what men are pleased to
cal their fAvortte paSt:'ac. 3tiu, 10 looking
over tho records of that day It ia 3 question
whether the msn
DIDN'T HAVE TIRE BEST or IT,
as VIC propose to show by and BY. In ansror
to their present calumnies, ne shall ouIy remark,
that having. through variety. adopted dress
which is suitable for both Is and 60,-so that Is
can fancy he is q man, and 60 can believe him.
self, In the very elegant slang Ct tho day, "a
masher, they hare so little 70 be proud Of in
their costume. and 80 little to OCCUPY tnsrn,
that, at the d.y-goods openings for ladies, che
would fancy they regretted the white chain
silk rs5t-patterns embroidered With gold, and
the coloured dstto, with gold aud silver" the
" fery handsome goid-and-eitvez-spaagfed bands,
buttons. and loops" the Every handsome gold
apd-eilyer bat-bucklos 70 match y the =. eo1d-
buttons on cloth to match
The fac clothes;" tie g haif-wh1te- .nd- bIack
silk breeches- pieces" which Enuis Graham,
ner Of Wall-atree.. ;aciog Mr. R.vingtons ner
Printing Office. Advertised IN October, 1773. Or
perhaps they are lankorin9 after +he hats manu-
facture.! by N.sbit Dean, OF Nav Ior.s, sud war
ranted to "exceed in dneness, cut. colour, and
cock" also, ITO turn rain. and prevent the
sweat Of the head x1om damaging tho croEu-"
Is u.au
s1ey1So FOE E1s 1nsr oonaEorsxEss,
and is It envy .aa: brings him TO modern peri
wl9s"f We cannot tell now long it takes Tim
liza. be is twice ss ddeetty about tho sat Of his
Coat she is about the dt Of her drees, and !
that tbs EJECT 1t ct his trovsers takea i
twice as loug. to deternine, before the !
rier-1nirror. As the sweep OF her train. How- |
. ter, re will leave him to his vRnitiea and see |
what was offered to our graalmother5 ahundred |
sears ego.
When John Graham. John Woodward or
francis Lewis l. Son, announced the arrival Of
lew cargo just imported, if it WAS rainy, Grand
M pu. On probably not modern repel,aut or an |
but her "lsab fear nothing" and, |
has equipped. with Chloe 70 bring home the
,undles, she started oil. She had not very far to
yalk, k,-oniy NJ or over to Wall strest, or to the
ici1.ity Of thu Fiy-Market. Here spra,l ". FOR
.er Inspection, we're the dry goods; first among
hem. the velvets- Tho shopkeeper did not say
auch to hor about fr,i4e c:-asse or lie de Bo-
eme when he brought thegs out, but he exps~
lated on
TIE BEAUTIFUL cLA 1T Color
ns4 aad Of calling her attention 70 the noi1, the
aaron. the ecajou, or .hs cedre, lie pointed Cut
. her how richly tbs sunshine ought out tho |
clden or reddieh ti;;:t in thcso browns and |
shod how z1.aJ oils he should send her. Or,
'ould Madame be magnificent in black, there it
as. good honea.. color. aud = good, honest
1!:re. And SO t-great-grandnnamna Bought
:e v 'iyet 10 wear to Madame C!inton's. LIVING
toas, Or schuy]ers grand reception. Then she
'okcd at the spotted swApskins. and tho black,
ue. green, d1ab, brown, rod and scarlet La:4
nos need pa'hss se1 1ss hs shs;c seo
ot unlike our de-bege travelling suits; the du-
.nts tAmmies, aer1e-den;,cs, aud many other
oods; and wsnt over to where the India goods,
lth their strknge, foreign smell, were diepayetl-
be shop is dark, aud, ~ she asks for pink lnte-
ring Instead Of rose-hetn faillc, the merchant
Us it to tho door. that she may know how 1t
i'll look in ths Light. It could not be called a ,
lshght color, and it might easily be deeper in ,
ta1s team the one her fifth generation will buy,
= it will he s',bject to no such glare. Still the
'cestress was anxious. Was not Charlotte Car |
inc to be presented that night and waa not {
70 Governor and his lady to be present7 6
An enterp1is'ng man was '
FRANCIS LEWIS son. a
3 WaB tho dI;-EGoda mao OF tho future and r
,i1c lin t.sLe! stared wli, oren-cyed .stonlsh-
ent, he toos GFeat-grea:-graodmamma into the I
eli parlor of the anop, lighted tho wax cardles b