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Show SOMETHING ABOUTJOMEN Colonial maidens were usually n.sy beings. Just what they did is exnmpled by 'Mis3 Abigail Foote of Colchester, Conn., who in 1773 kept a dairy of the duties that hhe "performed daily. Here die some of the entries. "Fixed gown for Prude. Mended Mend-ed mother's riding hood. Spun short thread. FixM two gowns for Welsh's girls. Carded tow. Spun linen. "Worked on cheese basket. Hatchel's flax with Hannah Han-nah : we did fifty pounds. Pleated Pleat-ed and ironed. Read a sermon of Doddridge's. Spooled a piece. Milked the cows. Spun linenc: did fifty knots. Made a broom of Guinea wheat straw. Set a red dve. Had two scholars from Mrs. iTnylor's: I carded two 1 omuls of whole wool. Spun harness harn-ess twine. Scoured the pewter." She also, knitted, washed, cook-d. cook-d. ricked geese, wended the garden, gar-den, dipped candles in the spring ii ud made some soap in the fall, besides finding time to visit and receive her girl friends. Cleopatra must have been small of stature, for, wrapped up n a bundle, she was carried to Caesar upon the shoulders of the Apollodorus. Nevertheless, she was a wonderful queen, possessing possess-ing countless arts, varied grace nnd the gift of numerous languages. lan-guages. Sho gave audience to Romans, Greeks. Ethopians, Tro-fflodytcs, Tro-fflodytcs, Hebrews, Arabians, Syrians, Medes and Parthians without the aid of interpreters, I discoursing fluently in their own dialects. Plutarch says her voice had an inexplicable charm of soft attractions in its sounds like an instrument of manj strings, which no one could resist. Two women were arraigned nt Newbury, Mass., in 1G53 charged charg-ed with wearing silk hoods and scarfs, but were discharged on proof that their husbands were worth 200 each. Dr. Livingstone while exploring explor-ing Africa discovered that when a man suspected that any of his wives had bewitched him he sent for the witch doctor. "All the wives go forth into the field," said the great explorer, "and remain re-main fasting until that person had made an infusion of the 'go-ho' 'go-ho' plant. They all drink it, each one holding up her hand to heaven in nttestation of her innocence. in-nocence. Those who retain the noxious dose are pronounced guilty and put to death by burn-ing." burn-ing." The dowager Tsarina of Bus-sia, Bus-sia, who h quite a favorite of the people, once saw on her husband's hus-band's desk a document relating to a political prisoner. On the margin Alexander III had written.; writ-ten.; "Pardon impossible; to be sent to Siberia." She struck out the semicolon after "impossible" and inserted it before that word, making the decre read. "Pardon; impossible to be sent to Siberia." The tsar let it stand. A woman who was convicted of felony at the Old Bailey, London, in 1775, sent to a mercer for some brocaded silks. Sho selected a rich design and ordered the proper pro-per amount cut off. Fearing that if she were hanged he would never nev-er be pnid for the goods, the shopkeeper informed her thnt he did not have nny scissors, but would deliver the silk later. Quickly handing him a 50 note, 'ho s !1: "Here is a pair of scissors." scis-sors." In north Japan is an enormous heathen temple, the timbers of which were hauled from the mountains and put in place with ropes made from the hair of the women of the province. From these tresses, which were brought forth by an edict, two ropes were made one seventeen inches in circumference nnd 1,400 feet in length,while the other was eleven inches around and 2,(100 feet long. Annie Laurie wns considered tho most beautiful young womnn of her day. She was the daughter daugh-ter of Sir Robert Laurie, Doug-Inss Doug-Inss Finland, who in 1700 wrote his famous song in her honor, wasdeply in love with her, but Annie Laurie did not return his affections. She married his, rival, riv-al, Alexander Fergusson. |
