The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1889-01-25

His aide de camp replied, a,Tis in our favor;
Quebec, with all her pride, nothing can save
her;
Quebec, with all her pride; Quebec, with all
her treasure
''oh,'' then brave Wolfe replied 81 die in
pleasure
She afterward repeated it slowly line
by line for one to copy, requiring more
memory than to repeat it through at
once. She also repeated another poem
of 8 verses, s'The Solitude of Alexander
Selkirk.'' May she continue to live and
enjoy her faculties is the sincere wish of
all her friends. This occasion will long
be remembered by all who were present,
as one of the pleasantest and happiest of
their lives. Sunday night, she repeated
to her relatives many interesting remi-
niscenees of her life in her younger days,
as follows.
went to school in the old district school at
Sandy Hook and attended church in Newtown
Street. ON the same spot where the present
Episcopal church now stands. There was no
way of heating the churches in those days and
with live Goals from the home fireplace. There
were a few people who rode to church in two
wheeled carriages, four wheeled carriages be-
ing unknown then Most people rode on
horseback, two people, either a man and wo-
many times escorted to parties by q gentle
man on horseback with a p1l11on behind him
We used what is now called the old fashioned
dancing STEP the minuet being quite favor
lite. My father led in the choir at church. The
instruments used in the choir were a flute, a
bassoon, a violin and sometimes q clarionet
and bass viol. There were no carpets in those
days. We had sanded floors, using white
sand, strewing it thinly upon the floor and
giving it q wavy or crinkled appearance with
q stick Therooms We're heated and the cook
ing all done by the firepiaces and in the brick
ovens The ovens would be heated up once
or twice week to do the weekly baking of
bread, pies etc. The bedsteads were curtain
bedsteads the posts reaching nearly to the
ceiling. No upholstered chairs were used.
All the chairs had wood, splint, or flag bot
toms. There were no matches and to keep a
night and, If the fire was lost, some one had
to go to the neighbors and borrow Goals,
which was not very pleasant on q cold morn
ing. The only lights we used Wers Lallo 10,
snuffer tray. We raised and dressed our own
fax and spun and woye it In the house. The
wool sometimes went to Sandy Hook to be
carded; the rest of the work to get 1t into
cloth we did at home. Forty knots eighty
YARDS was considered a good days work at
spinning. The girls were usually hired by the
week to spin and were paid As. 3D., besides
board. We had no cotton cloth when was
came from England. remember the first
cotton shirt my husband had. He had to give
75c q yard forit. The shoemaker W ent around
to the houses with his tools and made up
shoes for the whole family. This employment
was known among his customers as sswhip-
ping the cat The tail Dress also went around
the same way. There were quilting bees, APP
pie paFings and corn huskings, ending with
supper and a dance. When the ladies went
out to visit the neighbors of an afternoon, they
always took their knitting or sewing with
them and staid to tea, going home in time to
get supper for the men. Early in their teens,
the girls would commence to spin up yarns
and make up sheets and piilowcases and piece
bedquilts to be ready for housekeeping.