StNicholas . ayton Hall isyet standing, a fair specimen of old-fashioned 158 A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. [December^ architecture. The wainscot and mantels are of solidmahogany. The walls were once hung with tapestry. The planters, like theEnglish rural gentry, laidoff their grounds with ter-races, hedges, and ponds;and adorned them withshrubbery, summer-houses,and statuary. Many livedat ease in the midst ofplenty. They had muchpride, and looked downupon the laboring and trad-ing classes of the their work was done byslaves. The planters sonswere sent to the mothercountry to be d
StNicholas . ayton Hall isyet standing, a fair specimen of old-fashioned 158 A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. [December^ architecture. The wainscot and mantels are of solidmahogany. The walls were once hung with tapestry. The planters, like theEnglish rural gentry, laidoff their grounds with ter-races, hedges, and ponds;and adorned them withshrubbery, summer-houses,and statuary. Many livedat ease in the midst ofplenty. They had muchpride, and looked downupon the laboring and trad-ing classes of the their work was done byslaves. The planters sonswere sent to the mothercountry to be daughters were in-structed by private tutors. Most fine gentlemen were fond of fine horsesand dogs. There is a flavor of romance in thepage of history that tells of Washington and hisfriends dashing through the forests of the OldDominion, to the music of hound and horn. The times of which this article treats are oftenspoken of as the good old days of our ances-tors ; we should be strangely at loss if we had to. SAVING COOD-BVE TO THE LADY IN THE SEDAN, should consider it inconvenient enough to do with-out steam-boat, railroad, telegraph, and daily news-paper, not to mention horse-cars, express companies,letter-carriers, and the tel-ephone. The farmer of 1776 hadno grain-drill, harvester,or threshing-machine; andeven his plow, ax, andhay-fork were so rude andclumsy that a modernlaborer would laugh atthem. How great, to-day, shouldwe regard the general loss,were the shipper deprivedof his grain-elevator ; themerchant of his fire-proofsafe ; the publisher of hisrevolving press ; the surgeon of the use of ether ;the physician of vaccination ; the cripple of arti-ficial limbs; the writer of envelopes and metallicpens; the ladies of pins, and hooks and eyes;the soldier of his breech-loading gun ! All thearticles and arts above enumerated, and manymore now considered essential to comfort andconvenience, are of modern invention. A hundred live in the good old ways of the last centurj. W
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