Posted on 06/02/2014 3:35:50 AM PDT by kingattax
***I read once that 1/3 of all Revolution-era marriages were to pregnant brides.***
I’ve read that it was because of not enough preachers to marry them, so a couple would go shack up with each other until a circuit preacher came by.
I don’t know if the government had gotten into the issuing of marriage licenses yet.
I believe there used to be lots more sporting birds, as in pheasant, quail, partridge. There used to be more bears in the east and there were many more big cats in the east, just to name a few. Chesapeake bay used to be cleaner, with more oysters, crabs, fish, along with the St. John’s river in Fla. as a couple examples.
My Great-Grandmother would be up before dawn making breakfast, clean up everything, go out and harness up the horses and plow the fields, go back and make lunch for the family and farm hands, clean up, tend to the animals and the garden, then spend the afternoon at the hatchery, only to rush home and make dinner, serve dinner, clean up, sort laundry for the next day, and have time in the evening to sit in the parlor and mend clothing.
You are lucky these days to find a young woman to court that has a Life Skills set that encompasses more than updating her Facebook status or Twerking.
Those all seem to boil down to 1 skill: pretending their lives weren’t difficult and doing a lot of things the hard way because that was the only way. This whole narrative that previous generations were bettered because they had to master skills we’ve rendered unnecessary has gotten tiresome. It is kind of interesting that life back then was what we would now call a “survival situation”, but it’s the kind of interesting that makes me thankful for central air.
And no. Bears and big cats were gone from the east. They are now returning and reminding people why they were pushed out in the first place.
And once again 100 years ago, no to the cleaner, there were more oysters, they are the filters of the sea and maybe crabs as they do eat garbage. No more fish though.
Probably true. Both girl and guy wanted to make sure their spouse was fertile.
Don't bring up that the people who could afford calling cards would have had maids to do the mending either. And they would have bought their lace.
Fine sewing yes would have been practiced by the ladies of the house but darning and mending? Never! Only the lower classes did that. Even a lower middle class lady would have had at minimum a daily girl to come in and "do" for her.
Because of my training as an Infantryman, survival training, and my training as a Boy Scout leader, I do have a couple of these under my belt. But I am 50 and the point of this article is well said.
Possible :-) I generally assumed it had something to do with the practice of bundling
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Because of the scarcity of stationery, sometimes a person would receive a letter and then reply by writing in between the lines of the first letter, and along the edges of the paper. This made it hard to read, but saved paper.
God help the cashier if you handed him or her 4 pennies with $5.00 bill.
Their society had a well-established taboo structure, which included morals but was so much more than just morals. The father of lies, a murderer from the start, has been quite successful using democrats to erase our taboo structure so that any debauchery is now common and lying is a character plus.
Agree. Each generation has its own set of skills. Those great grandparents wouldn't know how to drive a car, use a cell phone or turn on a light switch. I know how to do all the old skills except make lace although it should be similar to crocheting. I'll take 2014 living.
Big cities could just as quickly become inhabitable. Turn the power off in the middle of summer for 4-6 weeks in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago........And see what would happen.
I’ve had to write, “I will not talk in class” countless times. It was no big deal especially after we learned ditto marks. One teacher put the talkers in the back of the room, lol! To this day, I don’t know if she was that stupid or smart enough to know nothing would stop us from talking.
I’m only fifty and I’ve done all of them except light a fire without matches.
I’ve even knit a lace wedding veil.
I’ve also shorn sheep and can spin my own yarn.
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