. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . d-marriages of England disfigurethe pages of our history. Sturdy Endicott wouldnot permit the marriage of his ward, RebeccaCooper, an inheritrice, — though Governor Win-throp wished her for his nephew, — because the girlwas but fifteen. I am surprised at this, for mar-riages at fifteen werecommon enough. Myfar-away grandmother,Mary Burnet, marriedWilliam Browne, whenshe was fourteen; an-other grandmother,Mary Philips, marriedher cousin at thirteen,and there is every evi-dence that the matchwas arranged with littleheed of the girls
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . d-marriages of England disfigurethe pages of our history. Sturdy Endicott wouldnot permit the marriage of his ward, RebeccaCooper, an inheritrice, — though Governor Win-throp wished her for his nephew, — because the girlwas but fifteen. I am surprised at this, for mar-riages at fifteen werecommon enough. Myfar-away grandmother,Mary Burnet, marriedWilliam Browne, whenshe was fourteen; an-other grandmother,Mary Philips, marriedher cousin at thirteen,and there is every evi-dence that the matchwas arranged with littleheed of the girls was the happiest ofmarriages. Boys be-came men by law whensixteen. Winthropnamed his son as execu-tor of his will when theboy was fourteen — but there were few boys likethat boy. We find that the Virginia tutor whotaught in the Carter family just previous to the warof the Revolution deemed a young lady of thirteenno longer a child. Miss Betsy Lee is about thirteen, a tall, slim, genteelgirl. She is very far from Miss Hales taciturnity, yet is. Miss Lydia Robinson, aged 12 Years,Daughter of Colonel James Rob-inson. Marked Corne pinxt,Sept. 1805. The Dress of Old-time Children 301 by no means disagreeably Forward. She dances extremelywell, and is just beginning to play the Spinet. She isdressed in a neat Shell Callico Gown, has very light Hairdone up with a Feather, and her whole carriage is Inoffen-sive, Easy and Graceful. The christening of an infant was not only a sacra-ment of the church, and thus of highest importance,but it was also of secular note. It was a time ofgreat rejoicing, of good wishes, of gift-making. Inmediaeval times, the child was arrayed by the priestin a white robe which had been anointed withsacred oil, and called a chrismale, or a chrisom. Ifthe child died within a month, it was buried in thisrobe and called a chrisom-child. The robe was alsocalled a christening palm or pall. When the cus-tom of redressing the child in a robe at the altarhad passe
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