Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-29
RECALLING SOME OF THE THINGS
 THAT ARE GONE


 Dear Sisters: When I read the letter from Just Me concerning the hair al- bum, and the autograph albums of our girlhood days several half forgotten things rose up in my mind one of them being hair jewelry. A cousin who used to visit a little girl had a brooch and earrings of woven hair mounted in gold, and as I remember them they were very pretty, too though light and fragile. Also l member another brooch oval in shape holding strand of plaited hair set under glass, and I have ring which belonged to my mother of finely plaited hair set in gold. It is practically a gold ring with a groove made to set the braid in and a little name plate in the center.
 Another melancholy ornament was wreath of head overs. I have seen one of them somewhere in my travels and I saw a hair album for the first time In the past year. One of my friends has one descending from some of her ancestors, and it is indeed a curiosity had never heard of such a thing before, and hair flowers put me in mind of the old fashioned feather flowers. There used to be a spray or two in my old home when I was child I thought they were something wonderful. I think they
 
 Anyway the feathers were white and that reminds me of the turkey tall fan which always hung in one of the bed rooms upstairs and the long bunch of i peacock tail feathers in the hall closet which gently waved over the bed back and forth. It was used to keep the flies l off sick person in summer time. Now i suppose I hadn't even thought of any of these articles before for years. which 1 is 8 proof of the old saying that we never forget anything it is only covered up with something else, and when some | thing happens to brush the rubbish away l from 1t then we remember. One style l of fancy work and ornamentals suc- ceeds another and so the world goes on. i Did anyone ever see the old alum bas- kets, made of crystallized alum on mica, and used to hold cards and pic lures? My mother had one that she had made in her young days, and when I was a girl we used to work cardboard notices with colored worsteds and they were duly framed and hung up all over the house, and we thought they were
 beautiful And we crocheted tidies and lambreQuins out of macrane cord, or fish
 twine, as some called it. They were
 stiff and unyielding things that lasted
 forever and were hard as board tc
 wash, but we put ribbons in them and
 admired them exceedingly. We
 stamped and worked pillow shams with
 fitting inscriptions and beside autograph albums we made album quilts, getting all our friends to block from some o1 their private ginghams and having white square in the centre with name anc date on. Some of the old autograph al
 buns of our grandmother's day. , abounded in melancholy verses, but c : later times they were frivolous thougl abounding in Remember me when thi ) you see, Forget me not etc, and yo, carried the autograph album whereve | you went, same as we do the camer;
 now.
 , Also the days of the good old rho 3 tograph album have gone by. That us ,, tc be the first thing handed and passed ) every time, especially if the hostess wa 5 called away to do something else. The, 2 have gone along with the haireloth so fas and chairs and the brilliant Brus sels carpets that used to grace the par !. lors and that we thought were just tn