Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-07-11
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This is by no means The only grave on
which toys and such things are TO be seen
displayed On tho contrary nearly every
little mound Of earth that covers a child's
coffin exhibits some relics Of the sort.
Near by is II shinGlo serving the purpose Of
o head stone, against which is tied with
Irvine dolls chair with a china doll sit
ting in it. The doll's dress has had all the
color washed out OF it by the rain, but it
still sits there patiently, as IL has sat for
many a month. waiting for its mistress to
pick it up when tho day shall arrive and
carry it before the Judgment seat.
On grave not far of is a tin box full Of
empty spools-once doubtless used forplay-
things to beguie baby hours-and a mouth
organ. Tied to another head board is a
pair OF little reins, and scattered over the
mound are several dominoes A grave that
is marked simply fNo. may be the
child had got no name-was adorned mere
ly with a rtoppared nursing bottle.
Tie nursing bottles seemed to be of all
things the most frequent decoration of the
graves-certainly the most pitifu. AS a
rule they were partly filed with mud
washed into them by the storms. But they
were not by any means the only kind OF
bottles to be noticed on the mounds. Medi-
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indeed, to supply an apothecary's shop with
glassware. AS we'll as could be discovered,
it was MUCH the fsshion to place on grave
all the medicine bottles emptied by the de-
ceased during the last and fatal illness.
Thus one was enabled to surmise at a
glance whether or not the sickness had been
very long or complicated. Some graves
would have only two or three bottles, while
others would make a showing of as many
as fifteen. Many Of the medicine bottles
on the other hand were partly full,
One head board bore the epitAph:
Our babe slept away
Quietly TO Euish land
In the sweet by and Ivy.
On the grave were a rubber coll, tin fir
engine, very much rustod, and little chint
! cat.
A curious thing found on one of tn,
mounds was cast of IA human foot in or
binary plaster Of the sort that is used fol
houses. Perhaps the father Of the family
was in that business. Othsr casts of angel
and such things in the same rude materia
wore not fnfrcqucnt. The most conspicu
GUS object in the cemetery was a hug
hobby horse placed over a small boy
grave. Many day. doubtless, had n
ridden on it to Banbury Cross A patheti
ornament, washed down by the rain from
mound, was child's school slate Stick
ing up in the mud by it was half use,
SLATE pencil The slate itself was broken.
One thing that strusk the observer il
the cemetery was that all the ornament
and articles Of whatever description tina
decorated the graves We're without excer
ton broken or deprived Of their usefulness
il other ways If such had not been tn
case they would be likely to be carries
away Even a tin basin on one mound, re-
with rust, was punched full o6 holes.
starch box on another grave was full G
fragments of china dolls, and even tn
nursing bottles were cracked. The bi
hobby horse had lost its rockers and ever
one of the statuettes We're more or les
mutilated. Coffee pots with their nozzle
knocked Off in very many cases served tn
use of pots for flowers, though no flower
were in them, of course. - Washingso
Star,