The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-26
ANCIENT HISTORY
 IN OLD SPOONS Some Old-FaShiOned Styles Are
 Now CuriositieS VARIETIES ARE NUMEROUS Marrow Spoons With Double Ends. Mulberry With Perforated Bowl
 and Spiked HandIe---The
 Old Caddy Spoon.
VARIETIES ARE NUMEROUS
,om the WashinRton Herald.

From the Washington Herald.
 We are familiar nowadays with spoons of many shapes intended for every va riety of purpose, but some old-fashioned styles are now merely curiosities. There Is the old-fashioned marrow spoon, for instance, which was used for extracting marrow from bones. It was made dou- ble, one end being used for small bones and the other for those of larger bones F Another example is the mulberry spoon. This has a perforated bowl and a spiked and pointed handle. The implements were made for use in a day when null berries were much more commonly eat en than they are at the present tine 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 mak- ing of a variety of new kinds of spoons, including the necessary teaspoon itself, some of which still remain in use while others have disappeared. At South Ken sington, in England, may be seen, for example, a curious collection of the little scoops so well known to our great-grand- mothers as "caddy spoons"
 caddles Out os Use. The caddies of the old-fashoned kind have long been superseded, and when the caddy with it's two ldded and metal lined end compartments and sugar bowl in the cavity between went out of use the caddy spoon or scoop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 It every where. was used for conveying the scent ed powder from the box to the hand, or in some cases direct to the nose candle spoons and pap spoons are also out of date. A gentleman a few months ago wrote that he had in his possession a sl- yer pap spoon which had been originally given by the Marquis of Exeter to member of the Hoggins family of Bolas The possessor of this spoon remarked that it had been given to him by his father, with the wish that it should be handed over to the first married in each succeeding genueration, for as such it had come to him through the intermar- riage of the two families in years gone by.
 Three hundred years ago there was a common spoon at Ilford, in Essex, which held more than a quart. Others of more legitimate make were such as the curi- ous combination implement with which folks of that date were familiar. When most people still dipped their fingers into the general dish to help themselves to meat, more dainty diners carried about With them an implement which was combination of spoon and fork and tooth pick.
 Fork at the Back. The fork was at the back of the spoon. While the handle of the double article was finished off with little figure termi- nal, which served as handle for the tooth pick. The terminal figure was a very favorite form of spoon ornamentation. It is most familiar in the apostle spoons Of which original sets fetch such high which at are so abundant but the figures were bv no means confined to the apostles. In some cases the spoons were curiouslv finished with double heads, which can hardly have conduced, one would think. to convenience of handling A curious but decidedly unpleasant form of orna- ment gave its name to the death S head" spoon, which was made for commemora- tive purposes-a very unattractive kind of memento mori