Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-11-22

shillings a week \. the tow for living
without Il wife. Widow rs hardly
waited till their wives were so>a and
cold before they married again. The
father and mother of Governor Win
slow had been widower and widow
seven and twelve weeks respectively
they were married. The gov
ernor of New Hampshire married a
woman whose first husband was put
in the grave just ten days before the
wedding. \ single woman was IAN
antient maid" at 25 years. and Il spin
ster of 80 years was a "thornba"}."
Judge Sewall wrote i'm his NH..ry
quite Il long story of his various at
te1npts to remarry when his first wife
died. leaving him a widower G6 years
old. He had a dreadful time of it. for
he was close listed in the = ter of set
Elements. but finally he u'ove a bar
gain.
In the early days of New England
almost everybody of dignity per-
formed the marriage except the par
son and the whole company of guests
used to invade the bridal chamber and
make long prayers there. Young fell
lows who we're not invited to the we'd
ding had the pleasing custom of steal
ing the bride after the marriage
ceremony, carrying her Off and releas-
ing her only when the bridegroom
bought "a supper for them.
They had good things to eat, though,
if two people did have to eat Off the
same plate. For instance. one New
England way to cook cells was to stuff
them with nutlnegs and cloves, stick
them with cloves. cook in wine, place
on a chatting dish and garnish with
lemons. Indian pudding, hominy,
suppawn, pone. samp and succotash
they learned how to cool from the In
dams. Pumpkins they didn't think
much of for the reason that they had
such an overdose of them. And here
is a recipe. for "pumpion pye" which
housewives may copy and use-if they
can make head OF tail of it:
Take about half a pound Of Pumpion
and slice it, a handful of Tyne, a little
Rosemary, Parsley and Sweet Mar
joram, slipped off the Stakes, and chop
them small and beat them. then mix
them and beat them altogether and put
in as much Sugar as you think fit, then
fry them like a froiz. After it is fryed.
let 1T stand until 1t be cold, then fill your
Pye. Take sliced Apples. thinne rounde-
ways. and lay a row of the Froiz and
layer of Apples, with Currans betwixt
the layer and while your Pye is fitted
and put in a good deal of sweet butter
before o close it, when the Pye ts
baked take sixteen yelks of Eggs, some
White Wine, OF Vergis, and make a
Caudle of this but not too Thicke, cut
up the Lid and put it in, stir them we'll
together whilst the Eggs and Pumpions
be not perceived and 50 serve it up"
PROBABLY it was good, but there was
mighty little "pumpion' to the "pye"
and a good Zeal of everything else in the
shop. Sixteen eggs in a pie when they
are selling for a quarter will scare out
a good many thrifty housewives of to-
day.
They Were pretty heavy drinkers at
first, but very early it began to be hard
lines for habitual drunkards. They had
to sit i'm the stocks. lost their votes and
had a great 3D. made Of ''redd' cloth
| hung around their necks or sewed on
their clothes.
1he recipes for fancy drinks We're in-
tolerably long and full of all the spices
in their shops and all the herbs of their
gardens. Their simpler mes Were rath-
er messy things, one would think. Here
is Landlord Mays recipe for flip.
mix -four pounds Of sugar, fou eggs
and a pint of cream, and let it stand for
wv days. Fill a quart mug two-thirds
full Of beer. put therein fou great
s%l,oonsful of the compound. Then thrust
into the mixture a hot loggerhead and
d a Gill of rum"
A popular drink in Salem was "whis-
tlebelly vengeance'-charming name!
Ii was made of sou household beer
simmered i'm a kettle, sweetened with
molasscs, filled with brown bread
crumbs and drunk hot.
Fol medicines the Ole Puritans had
the aWfulest messes. Sow bugs and
roses. and pounded coral. and toads
caught in March and burned to a char
and ambergris We're some OF the drugs
OF course they We're bled and physlcked
to the last degree. They used to make
up parties or classes and go to a retreat
where they would all be inoculated fol
sinallpox-not vaccinated, but inocu.
lated with the real disease. There they
broke OUT together. had the fever to.
gether, sweat together, scaled off to-
gether. and many a love affair sprans
up amid such highly unrsomantic cir.
cumstances.
The greatest OF all trials, one would
think. was h way the neighbors all go'
into the sick room and prayed all day
long. 1t was no good the poor badgered
creature telling them to hold theil
tongues and to let him alone. The,
kept at him till he told them to pray
and they fairly hectored him into
heaven.
But they had glorious times at funer
ais. They must have all got tight a!
drums from the amount OF liquor the,
drank. Funeral les were about thu
only punning poetry the Puritans wrote