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SOME EXPENSES IN 1851.
An old memorandum book has just
come to light, in which some interesting
prices are recorded. They make us
groan, says the "Brooklyn Eagle." As
we read them we begin to believe what
the old people tell us ?that former times
were, indeed, better than these.
The woman who kept this account
lxrok paid, to be sure, $3.25 to go from
Weslfieid, Mass., to New York, and $3
more to go from New York to Philadelphia,
but she paid only twenty-eight
cents a dozen for her washing?beautifully
ironed and brought tc her door?
and ten dollars a month tor her board,
and says that it was good, 1 >o.
She had her daguerreotype taken, a
single picture, and paid $1.50 for It. (We
can improve on that price.) She bought
a pair of shoes for $1.25 and had a dress
cut for thirty-seven and one-half cents.
The accounts bristle with half and quarter
cents, 'things cost sometimes a "fip,"
sometimes a "levy." The former was six
and one-quarter cents, the latter twelve
and one-half cents.
She bought a pair of rubbers for eighty-seven
and one-half cents, and wrote
them down as "gums." For her pew rent
at church she paid sixty-six and twothirds
cents a quarter. Her gowns were
made of "debage," "delaine" and "mull,"
and she paid $1.75 for the fitting and
making of one. She wore congress gaiters,
and paid the exorbitant nHea ??#
$2.25 for a pair. She bought a copy of
"Agnes; the Key to Her Coflin," a book
which many of us remember to have
seen lying on parlor tables even in the
70'b. It was considered a wonderful book
in its time, and most conforting to those
in affliction. For teaching school eleven
weeks th's woman received $82. .
She paid thirty cents to go from Westfield
to Springfield, and one dollar from
Spiingfleld to Hartford, with carriage
hire. She usually went from Hartford
to' New York by boat, but the makes one
entry: "Hartford to new York, across
me tana," and then neglects to record
the price. She has a tooth drawn and
pays twenty-five cents. We reflect that
this was before the days of anaesthetics.
She burned in her lamp "fluid," a highly
inflammable oil which preceded the
safe kerosene.
Those seem primitive and homely days
to some who read these lines. It is
true that life was simple then, but in
Now " "
?'o??uu aiiu Eiitmeni ?ew l OTK ailO
the vicinity, there may have been higher
living, in many respectR, than now.?
The Presbyterian.
IE PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOI
| Library !
Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and
recession, oy Beverly B. Munford, published
by Longmans, Green & Co., New
York.
The preface to this volume of more
than three hundred pages announces that
the work is designed as a contribution to
the volume of information from which
the historian of the future will be able
to prepare an impartial and comprehensive
narrative of the American Civil
War, or more accurately, The American
War of Secession. The author maintains
that the assumption that the people
ui Virginia were moved to secession by
a selfish desire to extend or maintain
the institution of slavery, or from hostility
to the union, is at variance with their
whole history and the interests which
might naturally have controlled them in
the hour of separation.
To present the true attitude of the
dominant element of the Virginia people
with respect to these subjects is the work
which the author has taken in hand.
Abundant citations from numerous
sources are made to sustain the author's
contention. Any fair-minded reader will
be not only instructed and entertained,
but conclusively convinced.
The volume is a worthy companion of
"The Confederate Cause and Conduct in
the War between the States," by Dr. Hunter
Maguire and Hon. George L. Christian.
Among the latest books published is
one of especial interest to Christian people,
namely, "Short Stories and Poems,"
by Nellie H. Owen. The authoress has
for some years been a resident of Richmond,
Va., and Kentucky being her native
state, she has dedicated her new
work to the States of Kentucky and Virginia.
This new book contains several
short stories and nearly forty poems, all
of which are complete with diversity, interesting,
entertaining and beneficial. The
book is handsomely bound in green silk,
bearing the title in letters of gold. A
Rifhmnn/1 nooiAn 1
imou/i umncs lut; lunuwing
comments on this new book: "The stories
are short, entertaining, and peculiarly
tender. You will need your handkerchief
as you read. * * Human affection
and religious aspiration are the vital air
of the lovely little poems which occupy
most of the pages. Get it, read
it, and enjoy it."
From My Youth Up.?Personal Reminiscences
by Margaret Sangster. Illustrated.
332 pages; cloth, $1.50, net. F.
H. Revell Co., New York.
' Mrs. Sangster has just passed the" line
of three-score-years and ten and she has
~ 1 -
uau a iuhk me, a i/nriHtian lady, who
has seen much and used her pen in song
and story all the time. She has much
to tell of her memories of the years past
and of many men and women of note and
attraction. She lived in Norfolk, Va., for
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JTH. November 10, 1909.
a number of years following the war. She
has a grateful appreciation of the noble
character and service of Dr. George Armstrong.
Her book is good reading, charm
ing ana entertaining throughout.
Under Three Tsars.?Liberty of Conscience
in Russia, 1855-1909. By Robert
Sloan Latimer with illustrations and
maps. 244 pages. $1.50, net.
Third in the story of the struggle of
evangelical religion is the Russian Empire
in modern times. It is a narrative
of the advance, since the Crimean War,
toward the ideal of personal liberty in
matters of religion. It tells of the religious
conflict of "The Old Believers," the
Molokans, the Stundists, the Radstsch
Awakening, Count Tolstoi, and the pres
ent evangelical agencies.
The Laymen's Missionary Bulletin.?
Throughout the National Missionary
Campaign a weekly bulletin will be issued
by the Laymen's Missionary Movement.
The first issue will appear during the
last week in October. The subscription
price is 50 cent3. This bulletin will contain
the freshest and most authentic
news from all the seventy-five conventions
to be held, as well as interesting
items of development in the campaign as
a whole. Orders for the Bulletin should
be sent directly to the headquarters of
the movement at 1 Madison avenue, New
York. The general secretary of the movement
promises that this bulletin will be
the juiciest, spiciest and neatest missionary
literature ever prepared for masculine
consumption.
The life of faith is a continual revelation
of God. As we trust him day bv
day for guidance and for help, we find
an ever increasing supply of peace, love
and Joy?a foretaste of the blessedness
of his eternal presence.
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