Young folks' history of the United States . WASHINGTON AND ADAMS. 225 tributed among the ladies. These fans were of ivoryand paper; and each bore a medallion portrait of Gen-eral Washington. While this was the way of living among the more The peopiafashionable classes of society, the people at large were ** ^^^^®gradually recovering from the losses of war, and wereengaging in various branches of industry. War is aptto unsettle the habits of a people; but most of the dis-charged soldiers of the Revolution went willingly backto their farms and workshops, and were proud of hav-ing established a r
Young folks' history of the United States . WASHINGTON AND ADAMS. 225 tributed among the ladies. These fans were of ivoryand paper; and each bore a medallion portrait of Gen-eral Washington. While this was the way of living among the more The peopiafashionable classes of society, the people at large were ** ^^^^®gradually recovering from the losses of war, and wereengaging in various branches of industry. War is aptto unsettle the habits of a people; but most of the dis-charged soldiers of the Revolution went willingly backto their farms and workshops, and were proud of hav-ing established a republic where there was liberty andalso law. Many were for a time very poor; but therewere few beggars to be seen, — so few as to surpriseforeign travellers. The chief occupations of the peo-ple were agriculture and commerce, together with hunt-ing and fishing. There were as yet neither cotton-millsnor woollen-mills; and very few of the varied modernmechanical inventions had yet been introduced. Inthe country, people still had great ope
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