Customs and Fashions In Old New England

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and " Stomack-Acli," I feel sure every respectable Puritan patient child died rather than swallow the disgusting and nauseous comjpounds that were offered to him for his relief.Puritan babies also wore medical ornaments, " ano- dyne necklaces."I find them advertised in the Bos- ton Evening Post as late as 1771 -" Anodine Neck- laces for the Easy breeding of Childrens Teeth," 1 worn as nowadays children wear strings of amber V beads to avert croup.Another medicine " to make childrens teeth come without paine " was this : " Take the head of a Hare boyled a walm or two or roahed; and with the braine thereof mingle Honey and butter and there- with anoynt the Childes gums as often as you please."Still further advice was to scratch the child's gums with an osprey bone, or to hang fawn's teeth or wolf's fangs around his neck-an ugly neck- lace.OLD NEW ENGLAND Evening Post, of 1758.The February Neivs Letter, of 1769, has a notice of the sale of " Best Holland Scates of Different Sizes."In the list of goods on board a prize taken by a privateersman in 1712 were " Boxes of Toys."Hig- ginson, writing to his brother in 1695, told him that " toys would sell if in small quantity."In exceeding small quantity one would fancy.In 1743 the Boston Neios Letter advertised " English and Dutch Toys for Children."Not until October, 1771, on the lists of the Boston shop-keepers, who seemed to advertise and to sell every known article of dry goods, hard- ware, house furnishing, ornament, dress and food^ came that single but pleasure -filled item "Boys Marbles.""Battledores and Shuttles" appeared in OLD NEW ENGLAND of the company as we form'd for country-dancing.Miss Soley and Miss Anna Green Winslow; Miss Calif and Miss Scott ; Miss Williams and Miss McLarth ; Miss Codman and Miss Winslow ; Miss Ives and Miss Coffin ; Miss Scollay and Miss Bella Coffin ; Miss W^aldo and Miss Quinsey ; Miss Glover and Miss Draper ; Miss Hubbard and Miss Cregur (usually pronounced Kicker) and two Miss Sheafs were invited but were sick or sorry and beg'd to be excused." There was a little Miss Kussel and little ones of the family present who could not dance.As spectators there were Mr. & Mrs. Deming, Mr. & Mrs.

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