. The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751 : with biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events. mprovement in their domestic comforts and relations, especiallyin the inland towns. As necessity is the mother of invention,their hands seized upon new resources and supplied their realwants. They drove the plough, they trafficked, builded, delved,they spun and wove. They had wooden trenchers first, then pew-ter, and finally earthen and queensware. Shoe bu
. The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751 : with biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events. mprovement in their domestic comforts and relations, especiallyin the inland towns. As necessity is the mother of invention,their hands seized upon new resources and supplied their realwants. They drove the plough, they trafficked, builded, delved,they spun and wove. They had wooden trenchers first, then pew-ter, and finally earthen and queensware. Shoe buckles of steel orbrass, rarely of silver, continued until 1800. The old men only ^Glossbrenners History of York County. RAIMENT AND PASTIMES OF OLD. 329 had a great coat, which lasted an average lifetime. Young mennever thought of wearing an overcoat. The men had one pair ofwell-trimmed leather boots, reaching to the knees. The wintersuit was homespun flannel breeches and jacket, long striped waistcoat buttoned down before, a flannel or woolsey shirt, and blueyarn long stockings. The eldest boy had, for summer, a home-made suit, which, when overgrown, was handed down to the women and girls wore on Sunday, in winter, homespun. INTERIOR OF AN OI<D-TlME HOUSE. flannel. The more common dress of the women was a loose gownand petticoat. In this graceful and healthful costume, our grand-mothers baked, and washed, and ironed, carded and spun, warpedand filled, wove and quilted, and rocked the cradle. They touchedthe spinning wheels with deft fingers, and from the shining spindleflew warp and woof as fine as gossamer and firm as threads of pride of these housekeepers culminated in their bed and bed-ding. Fine wool blankets, coverlets of elaborate designs, quilts inmosaic patterns, linen sheets as white as snow, all home made,were prepared for the trousseau of ever} fair-to-do young geese feather beds were an object of great emulation, and 330 RAIMENT AND
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