The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-28

| Win inerlngO rOOte, uates, lemon, anu
| whOle mace; covered with butter, sugar
and Crane juice, made with pastry, then
iced with rosewater and sugar and yclept
u secret pye.' Nor did the grand
danes fail to pander to the sweet tooth
| OF our sires rs their marmelets. concerves,
candied fruits and syrups attest. 1t was
| about three score years before the Boston
tea party that these WORTHLESS began TO
wrpstle with the problem of how the new
| China bsrb should be prepared. In Salem
it was boilsd until bitter and drunk
| without milk or sugar, and the tea leaves
were buttered and sailed and eaten. In.
| deed in more than one town the liquid
was thrown away and the leaves set forth
| upon the tabls.
| Madam. the landlady. did not besti-
tate to take to herself grand airs. as well,
| in truth. she might, for taverners gem
| orally were assessors. Seiectmen, repre-
| sentatives or esquiies, sciOns, often of
the best New England blood, and be ii
| added, that the houses they kept were
worthy of their high descent.
| When these gentlewOmen or their gal
lants suffered torture of the heart, they
were given this prescription to ease their
passion: Take damask roses half-blown,
| cns off their whites. and stamp them
| very fine, and Straine out the juyce very
strong; moisten it III the stamping with
a.little damask rose water. then put there
unto fine powdered sugar and boyl il
| 6ohty ~ u HIe syrup, tucn Jake tuo
powders of amber, pearl rubies, OF each
half dram, amebrg :eese, one scrupIe.
AMI mingie them with the said syrup
till it be somewhat thick. and take a lit
tie thereof on knife's point morning
ana evening"
Not so pleasant as this Cleopatra dose,
were others concocted of frogs. of earth
worms and adders, which were admins
tered with the assurance, that, tho i,
smell not vel, it was properly powerful
and could be gotten down if carefully
hidden in ''poudered shuger."
d MISTRESS MARY VINING.
Mrs. Henry Banning of Wilmington,
Del. has recently given us some interest
ing tradition concerning her kinswoman,
the famous colonial belle, Mistress Mary
Vining. Even the dry pages Of history
relate how our excitable allies. the
French, were completely carried away
| with xtrasagant admiration of the love-
Iiness and charming accent of this lady.
Marie AntOinette most graciousty eX-
| pressed a wish to see at the Tuillerles la
| blele Americana. whose beauty was cele-
brated not only in the polished court of
France but also at the courts of st.
| James and OF Germany.
Britons and Frcnchmen fell at her feet,
and Americans gloried in their devotion
| to their fair countrywoman. Distin-
|
ton and Mistress Vinine numbered
among her guests the Duke de Liancourt,
the Duke d'Orleans and Louis Philippe.
The celebrated Spanish patriot, General
| Miranda, passing through Wilmington
in the night, left his card in the post for
! her. With LAFAYETTE she correspondent
until her DEATH
One of the caprices of this lady fair was
never to be seen walking, another habit
she Affected was to parity conceal ner
| face with tan or veil.
| The announcement that the hand that
'princes had Tipped" was abont to be be-
slowed upon General Anthony Wayne,
then widower, caused a profound SEN
! sation to those who knew her splendid
triumphs, and who marvcled that she.
| who had refused British peers and French
courtiers. should accept simply daring,
| dashins American soldier. But death
| bereft the lady of her lover and she re-
tired from the world. Financial disaster
| followed, and little cottage near Will
mington. the "Willows. was her sole
| remnant OF a once abundant fortune.
| n She became sensitive as the blaze of
the few friends she would admit in a
darksned room, and wore huge ruche
| which concealed her cheeks. After losing
some of her superb teeth, she always
lifted a handkerchief to her mouth whom
| converting to hide tho defect.
This gentle lady, whose life hogan SO
brightly and ended SO sadly, was buried
on Easter SUNDAY, 1921. Six young
Girls with fine linen scarfs, three yards
| long, TIED over their bonnets, and pinned
| unuer their chlns, bore her to the grave
| and every prominent parsonage in Will
mlngton was in that funeral cortege.
Time, 1870. Scene, Boston public house.
Enter aldermanic magistrate.
Magistrate-"La Landlord, what is the
cost of a bit of dinner2'
Mine Host-"Obidiah. here, bring a
tape line, there boy, that's right, just
at the line OF the MISUNDERSTANDING
no, seventy five inches"
Magistrate. (wrathfully) POUNDS,
man, is this habberdasbery?''
Mine Host (suavelyl = "Dinner you
dollars sir for that size, sir"
ABIGAIL ADAMS.
Abigail Adams is MANS that it be-
hooves American women to keep brig BIT
on the pages OF history. View her char :
acter from whatever standpoint you
choose. admiration will be her need
emulation the hearts desire.
We know this woman, who enjoyed the
rare distinction of being the wife and
the mother of a preside of the United
States, through letters written her Inns.
band during the nin0 weary years his
country claimed his services, and kept
him from her side-the nine most crit
icsl and eventful years in American his
tory-from August, IVA to Dscem Der,
1888.
These letters show forth how unwar-
ranted were the ominous predictions of
kindred and friends, when the we'll born
Abigail Smith chose to marry the young
lawyer, the farmers son, John Adams.
During the first absence of Mr.. Adams,
when he went as delegate from Massa-
chusetts to the Continental congrss at
things political in and about Boston, of
their childrcns' health and education,
AMI of their country home and the pros
poets of the season. 1t was five weeks
before letter reached her from the "far
country" to which he had gone. The
postal system was imperfect and eXpen-
sive, but the anxious wife declared she
would gladly pay the exorbitant charge,
even If by so doing she was compelled to
subsist on one meal day. In Septem-
Der, MI. Adams, seeing from his broad
outlook the drift toward independence.
advised his wife. "frugality, my dear.
frugality, economy, parsimony, must be
our refuge" This because of the i'm
pending crisis and also because of nnfor-
tunate Investments.
1t was several months before Mrs.
Adams realized what the outcome must
be when she wrote: whether the end
be tragical. heaven alone knows. You
cannot be, l kno-, nor do | wish it, an
inactive spectator; but if the sword be
drawn L bid adieu to all domestic felicity
and look forward to that country where