. American cookery. Home Ideas and-sEcONOMIEvSS Contributions to this department will be gladly received. Accepted items will bepaid for at reasonable rates. Scrimshaw Work. MOST persons, other than NewEnglanders or residents of oldwhaling towns, would be somewhatpuzzled if asked to define scrimshawwork. To the average individual itsuggests some fancy stitch, while it isin realit}^ as described in the dictionary,the carving on whalebone done by oldsea captains, while off on their threeyear trips. During these long, lonely,tiresome cruises, they made these tokensto take back to wives and
. American cookery. Home Ideas and-sEcONOMIEvSS Contributions to this department will be gladly received. Accepted items will bepaid for at reasonable rates. Scrimshaw Work. MOST persons, other than NewEnglanders or residents of oldwhaling towns, would be somewhatpuzzled if asked to define scrimshawwork. To the average individual itsuggests some fancy stitch, while it isin realit}^ as described in the dictionary,the carving on whalebone done by oldsea captains, while off on their threeyear trips. During these long, lonely,tiresome cruises, they made these tokensto take back to wives and sweethearts,and they were certainly indicative oflabor and love. Mrs. Thomas Lawton of Newport,R. I., has an interesting collection ofthis scrimshaw work, containing sev-eral dozen jaggon wheels. To many, a jaggon wheel is as muchof a mystery as this whalebone decora-tion itself. The queer, little wheels,used for making designs and flutings orcrimpings around the edges of pies andtarts, were most necessary to the kit-chen equipment of New England ho
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