The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-08
THOSE .cooo OLD TIMES"
oua-r,ner Who says They DieA
c.-u.re with the New Times-

OId-Tiner Who says 'aey
Compare with the New Tine"
.Don't talk to me of the good oio
,;res,- said the old-timer- Il know
ali about IL. and tell you these ne"
times are better I'M every way than 'ne
times that are past Let me tell YOU;
I'm those days people drank green yea
and ate heavy suppers and went 10 Deo
U;,h warming pans and nightcaps ana
slept upon feather beds. with curtains
around them. and dreaded fresh AR IN
their rooms as much as sensible ioiks
nowadays dread 10 be without ~ Anu
n they heard a noise in the night they
got up and CROPPED about IN the carr anu
procured light with much diiiicui's,
with flint and steel and finder ooA anu
uppleasant sulphur matches. Anu
wen, TO the medicine chest and took
calomel and blue pills and salts ana
SIENNA and jalap and rhubaro
"In those days the fine gentlemen
,;nnIed old Jamaica and bitters in the
morning and lawyers took their clients
% the sideboard for dram. while the
fine ladies lounged on sofas, reading
byron. Moore and Scott. In those days
long leather fire buckets were hung In
the entries. filed with water, and when
a fire broke out every citizen was hre-
man.
I'm those DAYS gentlemen chewed to-
/ bacco indifferent where they eNpec-
to-ated. and ladies cleaned their dentaI
4 pearls with snuff. wore thin shoes ana
/ laced themselves into feminine wasps
] and consumption. Babies were put 10
sleep with spanking and Paregoric and
urchins were logged at school and sub
iected TO ali sorts of unheard-of chastise-
rnents. Picture books and toys were
dear and poor. Big boys played
.bockev' in the streets with crooked
sticks and hard wooden balls. police
men being unknown. and went home 10
their mothers to have broken shins
anointed with oPodeldoc.
street fights occurred between
schools and schooTmasters were perse-
cuted bv the biggest boys. Young Ia
dies danced nothing but formal and
and deeorous cotillons or fast and furi-
Gus Virginia reels. in wide entry halls,
nv the light of the candles that called
for suffers every ten minutes. to music
by black fiddlers or cracked and Jing-
ling panes, while mothers sat darning
stockings and fathers played backgam-
mon. or ranbled. swigged brandy and
water. came home late, roaring baccha'
nalian songs and inquiring OF their
sleepy wives in which brown parcel the
lin, ,..as y,.-o ,,na6 nm
Boarding school misses. in calico
gowns. practiced the Battle of Prague.
.Caliph of Bagdad' or 'Clemepti's soma
tas' on Instruments not much bigger
than a modern young lady's travelling
trunk. strung with ingliHg wires tha'
were always swapping. and occasionally
chirped Tom Mcore's Melodies or suci
airs as .Gayly the Troubadour,' Pray
Papa. Stay a Little Longer OF 'Th'
, Banks Of the Blue-oo-oo Mosche-he-he
belle
, Guests sat on hard wooden chairs
sometimes with their feet up. over roar
ing wood fires. 'spittin' around an'
maxim 'emselves sociable with juleps
: eggnogg. apples and cider.
| Every man shaved. wore bel!
: crown hat. n swallow-tail coat with
horse-collar; carried a turnip-shap
3 timekeeper in his waist-band, with
heavy seal hanging out; had IN
breeches pockets full of silver half-do
r lars; wore round-toed boots and line
: shirts: cased his throat with high
T standing shirt collars; ate all manne
e of nauseous quack medicines; dined q
n one o'clock (some families eating tn
pudding before the meat); took maps !
n the afternoon-on Sundays preferrin
q the pews of the church for that pun
|. pose; smoked long nines;' ate frie
s oysters and lobster salad and dram
c fiery Madeira or punch at IL o'cloc
$ at night. Got his feet wet on slush
DAYS. took awful cokls and rheum;
tisms. sent for DR.. Sangrado. and W;
:, bled, blistered and leeched; had nigh
mare. headache, dyspepsia, fever. d
g lirium, death and darkened room.
l. "Give me the good old times again
IT not"-N. Y. Herald.