The Washington herald., 1908-01-19
SPOONS REFLECT AGE
Some fashioned Styles
Are Now CuPiOSities.
VARIETIES ARE NUMEROUS
Ma rrOw spoons, with Double Ends.
Mulberry with Perforated Bowl and
Which Ancestors Used to Sip Their
Tea Among the Many.

We are familiar nowadays with spoons
Of many shapes intended fer 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. il was made Gou-
bic. one end being used for small bones
and the other for those Of larger bore
Another example is the mulberry spoon.
This has a perforated bowl and a spiked
and pointed handle. The implements
We're made for use Ia a day when null
berries were much more commonly eat
en- than they are at the present time.
With the perforated bowl little sugar
was sprnkied on the berry, which was
then conveyed to the mouth OF the
spiked end Of the handle.
The introduction OF tea led to the max
ing OF a variety Of new kinds OF spoons.
including the necessary teaspoon itself
some OF which stilI 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 10 our great-graad-
mothers as "caddy spoons"
CaddIeS Out OF Use.
The caddies Of the old-fashioned kind
have long been superseded, and when the
cady with it's two lldded and metal lined
end compartments and sugar bowl ia 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 snuf and took it every
where. was used for conveying the scent
ed powder from the box to the hand. OF
IN some cases direct 20 the nose, candle
spoons and pap spoons are also out OF
date. 4 gentleman a few months ago
wrote that he had in his. possession a sill
yer pap spoon which had been originally
given by the Marquis Of Exeter % a
member Of the HOggins family. Of B0ias
The possessor OF this spoon remarked
that IL had been given 10 him by his
father with the wish that 1T should be
handed over ~ the first married in each
succeeding generation. for as such 30 bad
come 70 him through the iutermarriage
Of the two families .u years gone by.
Three hundred years ago there Was a
common spoon az Ilford in Essex, which
held more than a quart Others Of more
legitimate make were such as the curl
Gus combination implement with which
folks Of that date were familiar When
most people still dipped their fingers into
the general dish % help themselves 10
meat more dainty diners carried about
with them an implement which was q
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 a little fig
ure terminal, which served as handle for
the toothpick The terminal figure was
very favorite form OF spoon ornamental
ton
II is most familiar in the apostle
spoons Of which original sets fetch
such high prices and Of which latteTday
limitations are so abundant. but the fig
ures were by no means confined To the
apostles
In some cases the spoons were Curl
ously finished with double heads which
can hardly have couduced. one would
think, To convenience Of handling A
curious but decidedly unpleasant form of
ornament gave its name to the deaths
head spoon. which was made for com
memOratiVe purposes very uBatuac-
tive kind Of mement0 mOTi