Show QUEER OLD CUSTOMS ancient habits and tradition that 1 london here are one or t two wo notes of domestic interest the washing of the house was always done leneat at home the wash er woman began her work at midnight why this was so ordered I 1 know not there must have been some reason during theman the many r wars v or G of the century wheat went up to an incredible price one year it was ono one hundred and four shillings S a quarter so EO that bread was three ti times mes as dear as it is at present housewives in those times cut their bread with their own hands and kept icett it till it was stale if you wanted a place under government you could buy one the sum of five hundred pounds would pet get you a comfor comfortable comforte tb berth in a the victual ling office for instance where the perquisites pickings and bribes for contracts made the service worth having members of pai parliament 11 who had the privilege of franking letters som sometimes sold the right tor for three hundred pounds a year ale houses were marked by on the doorpost door post to this day tile the 1 is is a common tavern sign Bali bakers cers had D ti lattice at their doors all tradesmen not servants only but master trades rile men n asked for christmas chrisom s be boxes aes the fleet weddings wedding gs went on merrily there was great feasting on the occasion of a wedding duly in the parish ell church arch on ti the ic day of tile the wedding the bridegroom brid groom himself waited on bride and guests walter desant besant in harper magazine mat azine th the a rates of board vary with the different species of birds according I 1 to the mount amount of attention they roq require air c and the character of food suited to their tastes canaries are boarded tor for awen ty five cents a week A common soft cracker r with mixed seed and occasional hard boiled eggs grated with plenty of bone is all they demand the noisy parrot is considered a profi profitable tab le boarder at fifty cents a week it is entirely satisfied with crackers pe peanuts sunflower seeds and rice more aristocratic birds however such as bulf bulfinch inches cs nightingales and ing birds must have anes eg eggs gs abich are prepare prepared a in europe and shipped here together with meal worms and ex pensive seeds of particular kinds one dollar and a half a weel week is charged charge d for the board of these species the landlord says that the companionship joll ship which his feathered boal boarders ders enjoy in their summer boarding house adds materially to their well being and in tile the case of song birds to the quality of their singing nging Ki among the interesting bird guests this season are a collection of hartz and english canaries several yc aws cuban har parrots rots american hes and nightingales the landlord endures tile the noise with irith equanimity in ity and feels ethanic thankful fl that hae gu e ats cannot antl and stol storm 14 the ih i h out of their cages business counter with their complaints and nd rem remarks arlist as sea fica shore visitors some do |