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Show WHEN OUR COUNTRY WAS NEW. Tiik parquet of a theater was called t the pit and was filled with the raMde. Vaccination had not become popu- , lar, and smallpox was' an every -day disease. Tub whipping- post and pillory were still .standing- in llo.stonand New York. Tiik tough characters, where such existed, had no brass knuckles nor re-vol re-vol vers. Tiik Mississippi valley was not so well known as the heart of Africa now is. Tn RF.n:. fourths of the books in every library came from beyond the Atlantic. At-lantic. Twenty days were required for a letter to g-o from New York to Charleston Charles-ton by land. Tiif. number of toasts drunk at a banquet equaled the number of states in the union. Tiik United States contained fewer people than now live in New York and its suburbs. Qcinink was unknown; when a man had ajrue iits he took Peruvian bark and vhi.-.k3'. In most families no cooking-was done on Sunday; a cold Sunday dinner was the rule. |
