Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1907-10-30
SOME CURIOUS SPOONS.
Uses TO Which They Were Put by PEG.
pie = Few Centuries Ago.

Uses to Which They Were Put by Peo-
pie Few Centuries Ago.
We are familiar nowadays with
spoons of many shapes intended for
every variety OF purpose, but some old
fashioned styles are now merely curl
osities. There is the old fashioned
narrow spoon, for instance, which was
used for extracting marrow from
bones. II was made double. one end
being used for small bones and the
other for those OF larger bore.
Another example is the mulberry
spoon. This has n perforated bowl and
a spiked end pointed handle, says the
London Globe The Implements were
made for Use I'm day when muiber-
rles were much more commonly eaten
than they are Mt the present time.
With the perforated bowl little sugar
was sprinkled on the berry, which was
then conveyed to the mouth on the
spiked end OF the handle.
The Introduction OF tea led to the
making Of variety of new kinds of
spoons. including the necessary tea
spoon itself. some o. which still re-
main In use, while others have disap-
peared. At South Kensington may be
seen. for example, a curious collection
or the little scoops so well known
to our great-grandmothers as caddy
spoons. Tea caddies OF the old fash
Toned kind have long been superseded.
and when the caddy with its two Id
ded and metal lined end compartments
and the sugar bowl in the cavity be-
tween went out of use the caddy spoon
or scoop disappeared also.
Another obsolete curiosity Is the
SNUFF spoon. which In the days when
nearly everybody took snuff and took
II everywhere was used for conveying
the scented powder from the box tc
the hand or IN some cases direct to the
nose. Candle spoons and pap spoons
also are out OF date. A LlangolIen
gentleman few months ago wrote IN
Shropshire paper that he had in his
: possession silver pap spoon which
had been originally given by the Mar
4 quis or Exeter to member Of the
! Hoggins family of Bolas. The posses
sor of this spoon remarked that it had
been given to him by his father Will
the wish that ii should be handed
over to the first married in each sue
ceeding generation, for as such IL hac
come to him through the intermarriage
or the two families in years gone by.
Three hundred years ago there was
one at Ilford, in Essex, which held
more than quart. Others of more
] legitimate make were such as the curl
Gus combination implement with which
folk or that date were familiar. Wher
most people still dipped their fingers
into the general dish to help them
selves to meat more dainty diners car
ried about with them an implement
which was a combination of spoor
and fork and toothpick.
The fork was ut the back Of the
spoon, while the handle of the double
article was finished Off with a little
figure terminal, which served as han
die for the toothpick- The termina
figure was a very favorite form Of
spoon ornamentation.
II is most familiar in the apostle
( spoons. OF which original sets fetcf
! such high prices and of which latter
day limitations are so abundant, bu
the figures were by no means confined
to the apostles. In some cases tn,
spoons were curiously finished witt
double heads. which can hardly hav,
conduced, one would think, to conven
fence OF handling. A curious but de
cidedly unpleasant form of ornamen
gave its name to the deaths head
spoon. which was made for commemo
rative purposes, very unattractiv,
kind OF ''memento mori."