The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-05
MEMPHIS DAILY lAPPEAI---sUNDAY. SEPTEMBER g. 1886.
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now in use, and is built further down
the stream.
A WOODEN factory, where the wool
from their sheep Is made into home
spun, yarn, blankets aud hsnnels, and
linen also woven for personal and
household uses, Is still in vogue. A
striking peculiarly to an American is
the entire absence of any cotton
fabrics; everything that can be Is made
OF pure white linen. A planning mill,
foundry and furnace, ali were built
and are now in use. One OF the finest
herds OF Durham cows, sleek, fat and
shining, being from $50 to 200, can be
seen every morning and evening,
driven by the Kuh-hist and hi, dog
back and forth from the pastures to
their large barne. These cows have
always seemed TO me to be remarkably
intelligent; each COW knows her own
stall, and quietly goes along until she
comes 10 ii, turns in and avs there
until the milking is over.
Here you see the veritable milkmsid.
All the young girls in the villsge 90 to
milk; their dresses are tucked into the
belt, the white sleeves of the linen
chemise, which comes high ND to the
throat, are rolled up over the arm, a
bucket Of rich foamiDg milk is bal.
anced on the head, and with one arm
akimbo and hard on hip, the other
steadyiDg the bucket, they 20 to the
milkhouse 10 empty the milk into a
huge tank, when as much as is needed
Is distributed TO the villagers and the
remainder made into butter and pecu.
liar kind OF cheese. This milking of
the COWS is considered by visitors who
20 to stay during the summer months
the most en- ertsining sight there.
Constance Fenimore Woolson, the
novelist, used to frequent this little
village every GUNNER She had a
bathhouss built on the mill race, and
the q ar people tell me that she would
sit on the seps the whole day long,
with the water running over her,
while she read ard wrote. She wrots
several ehort stories about the Zoarites,
and one OF them fell into their hands
it contained some Misrepresentation
which sngersd them, and she was
never tolerated there afterwards
Women and girls work in the fields
during harvest time. A nursery was
in vogue until recently, where all
young children and babies were sent
and taken care of by the colored
women, who were incapacitated for
other work.
Bot now hard labor is not necessary
for the women, and they devote more
time to their families and homes.
One bakery and laundry answers for
all; they bake only the unleaven
bread.
The small honey cakes that are
rarelv given to strangers / have
through special kindness been often
allowed to eat, and I can vouch for
their deliciousnesa.
A brewery, and large garden of two
acres, where only flowers and orna-
mental shrubbeiy are grown, With q
conservatory attached, filed with rare
and beautiful plants, completes the
list OF interesting objects.
The gardener, Simon Bieler, and his
wife, Mary, are two imp ortent people.
Mary 10 the midwife, the old doctor
being dead. She, scientifi ally in
stsucted, u,hers into existence the
baby members OF the eociety. This
gardeuer IL at the same time school
teseher aud Justice OF the Peace, and
an extremely. pleasant and well edu-
Gated man.
Bot time begins to modernizs these
people; the change is very marked
since few years; railroads are pass
Ing through their village and lands
bringing more OF the stir aud hustle OF
the outside world than has ever been
there, and the original enthusiasts are
dying of and aging, and the younger
members bring innovations never
dreamed Of by their elders.
The most marked change il in their
mode Of dress. The youngest MON.
bers no longer dress either Themselves
or their little children in the QUAINT
street garb Of yore"; but Instead, the
furbelow and the founce holds sway.
If "old Nine" the cook, who has
been dead and gone "this msny a
year." could turn back and look into
the Wirthshaus kitchen Of today, and
see the old tile stoves gone, and in their
place, large modern rapges, / think
her sweet, old face would wear
puzzled look.
Their religion, as near as can net
II, is this: Their FIRST leader, Biemier,
founded his belief in the simplicity,
purity and celibacy Of Jesus Christ
This ne gave to his followers as their
law.
There was no marriage for the first
Eve years Of his reign, but finding
that the laws of nature are compui.
sorry lawe, that little crying waits were
found in all sorts OF places, and that
the society would in all probability
come to an untimely end, &c passed
decree that each man should take
unto himself wife, which is followed
to this day, making them a moral,
honest, simple people and rich and
thviving community.
Time will, no doubt, wipe out the
sect, a. many Of the present genera
ton leave 10 90 to the neishborin
cities, eeeking for themselves other
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