Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-08-18
Tie ordinary food Of tire early settlers

Tie ordinary food of itlIes early setfiers
here TO" both breakfast and SUPPER was
bean pOrridge with bread and butter On
Sunday morning there was coffee in adj
dition. Brown bread, made of "rye and
Indian" was the staff Of life, white bread
being used only when guests were present
Baked pumpkins and milk composed a
dish said 10 have been luxurious. For
dinner, twice every week, SUNDAYS and
Thursdays, baked beans and baked Indian
pudding the latter being served first.
Saturdays salt fislI, one day in every week
salt pork and corned beef, and one day al.
so roasted meat, was the rule
For drink malt beer was used Cider
soon supplanted that. A 'favorite and
very common beverage for evenings at
the inn and at home was flip, which was
made thus A quart mug was nearly
nlled with malt beer, sweetened; red
hot poker was then thrust into the LIQUID
and kept there until foam was produced.
when a half pint Of rum was poured in
and some nutmeg grated upon it. The
price of mug of flip was pistareen.
Constant drinkers of flip were liable TO
nave sore shins, and it was not uncommon
TO see men going 10 their daily avooationa
with handkerchiefs tied below the knee
Dreeches, 10 prevent abrasion of their
skin. When spirits came to be drunk
mixed with water only, this disease dis.
appeared
The ancient dress of the men was a
woollen coat striped woollen frock, tow
or leather breeches tied or buckled at the
knee, and cowhide shoes with leathern
buskins Sunday hats were three-corner-
ed, Kept in a wooden box, and made to
last lifetime. The dress of the women
of rln
gowns, tyers, thick woollen stockings and
cowhide shoes.
One hundred years ago it took two davs
to go from Concord to Boston; it now takes
three hours. Then the price of supper,
lodging and breakfast on the road was a
pistareen and a half Qhirty cents) now it
IS three dollars. Then all work was
honestly done Gas witness two pork barrels
in the cellar under the house in which I
write, which have been in use since 173D:
now honest work, as the term was then
understood, is unknown. Then girls were
educated TO become thrifty wives and
healthy mothers; now 1t is considered
more important to make good match.
In lI72 the average number of children
in each family in New Hampshire was
seven; 1t is now two !; there was at that
time one physician to every four hundred
NSNioi NlASAO - INV Out " tN6IJ stNtulY-s
hve suits at law for all purposes not Grim
inal then averaged one annually for every
hundred inhabitants; they now average
one for every twenty -four. The expenses
which well-tO-do family incurred every
year for its support were at that time four
hundred dollars; they are now nearly
thrice that sum.
When the war of the Revolution began
there was but one man in this State who
was worth more than thirty thousand
dollars; there are now forty-five worth
more than million. There were then
but thirty five wheel carriages, and they
all were chaises save two; there are now
forty seven thousand. Oxen then did all
the agricultural work, and there were
twelve hundred and forty-one yokes of
them in the State; oxen and horses now
equally divide such work, and they num-
Der hundreds of thousands Concord IN.
H) Cor. " Y. EOentRg Post.