Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-11-21
NoRw1cn. COM. Nov. 14. Isl.


NORWICH, Conn, Nov. IA. 'S2.
Shall give you a brief chapter on our
social life among our Yankee friends ?
Yes; we have friends here, and very dear
ones, and we expect the circle Of them to
enlarge every day. Beginning with our
dear entertainers, the Nash family, and
winding up with Charley Somers, the
church organ grinder; between these ex.
tremes lie a small host Of dear, dear hearts,
in which it will be our pride and jov to
rest, remembered "for the works sake" in
all the coming years IT'LL Jesus comes"
and after that, Joined for Eternity in be-
holding together, "face 10 face, NC" the
King in His beauty. "Blood il thicker
than water" the world over, snd Jeaus'
brethren know and love each other in spite
of all that Satan has done TO thrust them
apart. But TO our social life. Brother
Nash, "true as steel" to us, for the truths
sake, from first To last, keeps few board
ers. BY successive reverses he lost no.
BILE fortune of 500, 600, and is now work
ing hard fora bare living. The plunge for
himself and family has been a fearful one,
but none Of them are grumblers, and you
would imagine they had always been poor,
from the cheerful way in which they face
their altered lot. We shall never forget
their kindness to US. We feel as much at
home in their house, asif born and brought
up in it. The LORD bless them. A few
little peculiarities remind US constantly
that we are not in Kentucky. For exam
Pile Every Saturday evening, the baked
beans make their appearance, with pious
regularity; and a lannon's dish it IL, 10
which we as naturally incline, "as a sick
kitten TO hot brick They are eaten
with vinegar and pepper, and all day Sun
day the "feast OF beans" continues. This
custom originated with the Puritans and
their strict observance OF the Sabbath,
beans furnishing the simplest dish for the
cold Sunday breakfast. dinner and supper
Their degenerate descendants eat them
"hot and nop with all sorts OF comforia
BILE dishes to flank the central "bean porrige
in the pot" Of all our children's poetry.
| vote for the modern innovation, not be-
lieving the LORD "hard Master" who
likes his children TO be miserable and
knowing by long experience, that can
preach better sermon on generous diet
than on any "cold victuals" ever invented.
Well; the bsaS custom still fingers in eve
ry Yankee household. like other customs,
long after the spirit and circumstances
that gave them birth have passed away.
In fact "baked beans" is Yankee institu-
lion, and the "Boston baked beans" an ar
ticle of export TO "every nation under the
sun"-put up in tin and dainty as the
daintiest
About every Wednesday, our folks have
a prodigious stew OF wonderful mixture OF
unctious ingredients that bangs any stew /
ever tasted. Besides the beef or chicken
az the case NAV be, there are dumplings Of
a very rare order, not heavy and leAthery,
but light az a snowflake; with potatoes,
turnips, carrots, onions and know not |
what else-altogether such a savory com
pound, that not even dyspeptic could re-
sist it, We have daily, apple pies for des-
sert, OF the kind my nanny baked" the |
skill TO make which | once thought was
among the "lost arts" but find il lourishing
in Connecticut. The expected pumpkin
pies have not appeared, though a we'll.
known staple" In brief, we live Gin clio
yer" and are all fattening fast am over
lG0-a heavier weight than have known
for long time. The whole "troupe" is in
Iirst rate flesh, "though not in the flesh, but
In the Sprint" At table the head Of the
household helps all parties to every thing
% begin with; laborious operation for
oater tdmlias but universally undertaken.
L is good, hearty, generous custom and
ike il. OF course, 50 near the great sea.
n which are fishes Of every FIN, we have
he choicest brain food the world can fur
fish. Fresh cod. haddock, striped bass,
and blue fish, hest of all, with
ysters and clans, abound in the market
.obsters and crabs are on. Of season. be-
ng Summer dainties. did not know ill
oming here that clans burrow in the mud
nd sand and are dug out at low tide from
heir beds, one 10 three feet below the sur
ace, unlike the oyster that lies on top Of ,
h bed, be il sand or rock. This explains
he simile ''as happy as clam at high .
de-" for then only are they ont of
he reach Of their persuers. covered by the
'iendly How Of waters. Every day gives
new walk and a new mountain top Of OBJ
'ryation, exceeding amy thing In lovely
ariety yet met with. Yesterday dear Bro
ash got "livery rig" end drove me out
} PocotanOc, the village, four miles away, A
here he was born, married and reared
is family. The drive down the left bank
the Thames, through the Laurel Hill y
lburb, until We reached point opposite
ie mouth Of Trading Cove, mentioned in
previous letter, was a charming one And n,
hen We reached q spot known as Willow "
oint, the view up and down the river was
INST too utterly too" for any thing The
pint gets lbs name from an ancient willow n
once prodigious size, and unknown age,