The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-12-20

time. Roasted barley, roasted corn,
chicory and dandelion roots were
roasted, ground and used for coffee.
AS for sugar, white or granulated j,
was very expensive and was never
in evidence except perhaps once on
Sunday or on very special occasions.
Brown sugar and even old-fashioned
back moIasses were used for sweet
ening And honey, apple butter,
fruit jams and ham fat were consid
cred goo e Tough for any one except
perhaps very old people. Butter
was scarce and very expensive, sell
ing as high as a dollar pound. In
the rural districts nearly every one
who could kept a COW; those who
did not as a rule went without milk.
The papers of that day empha-
sized the fact that coffee aud tea
were more nutritious without than
with milk. In the North there were
no movies OF cheap amusements OF
any kind. Picture postal cards were
unknown and The children did not
have a nickle or dime to spend for
candy or other indulgencies. Ihey
considered themselves very lucky if
every once in awhile they got cent
and we're the envy of other chill
dren. You might as we'll have asked
a man for a nickle as to ask for a
match They were scarce and ex-
pensive. The cigar stores in New
York City used TO roll up little spir-
ais of paper, put about rs OF them.
in glass on the showcase, together
with little fluid laps, with a light
about the size of a match, and here
is where you lit your cigar. Ihe
match sometimes came IN little
paper boxes, about 30 to the box Tor
five cents; they were cheap, blue
sulphur matches, foul-smelling and
very uncertain of ignition. Then an
other kind came on cards OF about
Is to a card. These were just
piece of shingle dipped in sulphur
and birthstone. To use these matches
you split off what you wanted to use
with knife. 1t was not much OF
an improvement over the old flint
aud wick but it was the best we
could get. For ligh,s We used Hu'd
in little old glass or pewter lamp
with two wicks abaut the size OF a
small lead pencil and made about as
much light as an industrious light
ming bug. Later on we got kerosene
with a broad wick; it was smoky
affair without a chimney and very
odorous. The oil was crude and ex'
pensive. Later some Connecticut
Yankee invented the more brilliant
and very satisfactory lamp with a
glass chimney. and it, is the same
lamp that is in use today. mere
lave been improved burners, but
like Whitney'S cotton gin it has not
been improved nor has the original
lines been changed.
While the high cost of living is
causing a lot of unrest and political
attention and activity, the rising
generation can hardly realize to
what a low ebb the possibility oI NV
ing was in some parts Of the North.
1t was a common thing to see llne
of men, women and children; MOTH
ers with babes in their arms. the
strong leading the blind, the lame
and feeble three blocks long on
a cold morning before. daylight each
with can, bucket and even Old to-
mato cans waiting for the doors OF
the soup houses to open to feedthese
poor people. A large percentage OF
these people had been brought 70
this because the bread winners OF
the house had been drafted into SER
vice and were or had served at the
front, most of them never to return
with these people dependent upon
them.