The Huttig news., 1912-08-10
In One Hundred Years.

cooked in fireplaces. There were
no ranges, no gas stoves, no oil
stoves. no coal stove, no cool
stoves of any kind. And they hae
no matches, no electric lights, Oh
gas light and no kerosene.
There were no sewing machines.
All clothes were made by hand.
There were DO ready-made things
of any kind; not even shoes or hats
Nearly every family spun its own
wool and flax and made its own
thread and yarn and cloth. The
clothes for the boys and girls and
the men and women were made at
home. Also were the carpets. the
candles, the soap. the mattresses.
the chairs and the tables. There
were no furniture factories. no
ready-made desks or bookcases or
bedsteads or anything else. Such
things as were not made at home
were made to order by the shoe
maker or the halter or the tailor or
the cabinet maker. Clothing
stores. shoe store, hat stores, fur
niture stores we're unheard of.
Nobody wore rubbers. That
was because there were no rub
bers. There were no rubber goods
of any kind-overshoes. water
proof raincoats, rubber balls pencil
erasers, hotwater bags, or anything
of that sort. There was no garden
hose; no fire hose. There were DO
water mains; there were no fire en-
gines.
Fireplaces were the only means
of keeping a house warm. There
we're no furnaces. Here and there
a wealthy family owned a wood
buSning stove, but that was a rare
luxury Steam heating and hot
water heating was undreamed of.
There were then no bath rooms:
there was no plumbing. and the
towns had no sewers. They also
had no street cars. All city travel
was done en- foot or by means of
horses and carriages. And if any
one ventured out at night he car
ried his own light with him
lantern with candle in it; for
there were no street lamps. Elec-
tricity and gas and coal oil had not
yet come into use.
Of course there were no airships
or automobiles or motorcycles in
1911. Neither were there any
bicycles, nor any trolley cars, and
there were not even any railroads.
The locomotive had not yet been
invented, and the steamboat was
being tried for the first time as an
experiment. All travel was done
on horseback or by stage coach,
and those who crossed the ocean
did it as Columbus did-in a sailing
vessel. There were no postage
stamps. The person who received
letter paid for it in cash accord
ing to the distance it had come.
And there were no envelopes and
no letter boxes. Letters were
simply folded and the corners held
together with sealing wax, and the
address was written on the outside
of the letter.
AS there were no railroads, news
travelled only as fast as a horse
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were no wires TO carry messages.
for there was no telegraph and
there was no telephone. Conse-
quently there was not many news
papers, and such as there W ere did
not have much news to print.
Most of them were issued only
once a. week, and such news Of the
world as they contained was from
several days to six months old.
All printing was done by hand on
wooden presses. The paper was
made from rags All the writing
was done with quill pens the bony
end of feather puoked from
goose. There was no steel pens,
no gold pens. no untain pens, no
manufactured lead pencils, no blot