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CUSTOMS AND FASHIONS IN OLD NEW ENGLAND

ALICE MORSE EARLE

"Let us thank God for having given us such ancestors; and let each successive generation thank him not less fervently, for being one step further from them in the march of ages."

NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1894

COPYRIGHT, 1893 BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

CHINA COLLECTING IN AMERICA. With 75 Illustrations. Square 8vo, $3.00.

THE SABBATH IN PURITAN NEW ENGLAND. 12mo, $1.25.

To the Memory of my Father

CONTENTS

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I. CHILD LIFE, 1

II. COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE CUSTOMS, 36

III. DOMESTIC SERVICE, 82

IV. HOME INTERIORS, 107

V. TABLE PLENISHINGS, 132

VI. SUPPLIES OF THE LARDER, 146

VII. OLD COLONIAL DRINKS AND DRINKERS, 163

VIII. TRAVEL, TAVERN, AND TURNPIKE, 184

IX. HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS, 214

X. SPORTS AND DIVERSIONS, 234

XI. BOOKS AND BOOK-MAKERS, 257

XII. ARTIFICES OF HANDSOMENESS, 289

XIII. RAIMENT AND VESTURE, 314

XIV. DOCTORS AND PATIENTS, 331

XV. FUNERAL AND BURIAL CUSTOMS, 364