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BEWARE OF BAD BOOKS
The Visitor, or Monthly instructor
Dec 1836
Books could be named, were it not that there is a possibility that even the information conveyed in naming them might be perverted, which seemingly, could not be excelled by all the talents in hell, if the object were to pollute and ruin. These are to be found everywhere. I do entreat my young readers never to look at one, never to open one. They will leave a stain upon the soul which can never be removed.
I believe a single page from Byron, which has done more hurt to the mind and the heart of the young than all his writings have ever done good. But he will quickly pass from notice, and is doomed to be exiled from the libraries of all virtuous men.
Fag Ash Note:- He got that wrong then.
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Thanks for that Carol,
Did find that too....read it last year, facinating is right especially if you also find one of your anscestors there.
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RURAL RIDE
Cobbett’s Weekly Register,
Aug 9 1823
The wheat where it has begun to die, is dying of a good colour, not black, nor in anyway that indicates blight. It is, however, all backward. Some few fields of white wheat are changing colour; but, for the greater part, it is quite green; and, though a sudden change of weather might make a great alteration in a short time, it does not appear, that the harvest must be later than usual…..
If we were now to have good, bright, hot weather, for as long a time as we have had wet, the whole of the corn, in these southern counties, would be housed, and a great part of it threshed out, by the 10th of September. So, that all depends on the weather, which appears to be clearing up in spite of St Swithin.
This Saint’s birthday is the 15th July; and, it is said, that, if rain fell on his birthday, it will fall on forty days successively. But I believe that you reckon retrospectively as well as prospectively; and if this be the case, we may, this time, escape the extreme unction; for, it began to rain on the 26th June; so that it rained 19 days before the 15th of July; and as it has rained 16 days since, it has rained in the whole, 35 days, and, of course will satisfy this wet soul of a saint. Let him take his five days; and, there will be plenty of time for us to have wheat at four shillings* per bushel.
*20p
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NEW FASHION FOR CHILDREN
Ackerman’s repository,
December 1824
CHILD’S DRESS--- A short German frock-coat of superfine bottle-green cloth, with rows of gilt buttons in front, and braided round the bottom of the skirt with a little tasteful ornament on each side. Nankeen vest, and Trowsers trimmed at the ancles: worked Spanish collar, or fluted Cambric frill.
Fag Ash Note : trowsers and ancle really were spelled like that.
Nankeen = a durable yellowish-brown cotton fabric
Cambric = a thin white linen or cotton fabric
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hi lil lol
glad you said they were written like that cause you know some people do not like it when fings ain't spelt correcly lol...
keep em coming
jetxx
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Word automatically changed it to ankle so I had to re-write it :-)
Not sure exactly where I read this, but had heard that it was a fashion at one time to write letters to friends, with every day words, differently spelled, just so's not to make the letter too boring......not as we do, as in noo for new, which is in effect slang, but maybe labor instead of labour ........I do say maybe here...as I would have to find where I read this to verify, unless someone else can do this for me.
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GLANCE INTO THE FUTURE
Ainsworth Magazine 1842
The year of our Grace 1942:--- I am standing on Shakespeare’s Cliff, or what remains of it, wondering at the ruins of the railroad, and waiting for the daily post from Australia. I see a speck in the clouds. And hail the harbinger of news. The postman alights for half-a-second (his regulation breathing time), folds his wings, sucks in a concentrated lozenge the virtues of a quart of London Porter, blows his nose with an asbestos pocket handkerchief, and is off again like a rocket, before I have seen whether my letters have the postmark of Adelaide or of Sidney.
Fag Ash Note:- caoutchouc = Untreated natural rubber….rubber that has not been hardened (vulcanized) by treatment with sulphur
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More...more......more...........
they're great!!
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PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL
Truth, Jan 1 1885
I learn that the committee of the Football Association have passed a resolution legalising professionalism “under stringent conditions.“ This will be submitted to the general meeting Jan 19, when the resolution, which consists of nine separate clauses, will probably become law. As I have long advocated this step, I am glad to see the authorities at last adopting it.
THE ELIZA ARMSTRONG CASE
Morning Post,
November 11 1885
W. T. Stead, Samson Jaques, Rebecca Jarrett, and Louise Monrey, were tried yesterday at the Central Criminal Court for an indecent assault* on Eliza Armstrong. The Jury found Madame Monrey guilty, and the other defendants guilty of aiding and abetting.
Mr Stead, on this and the previous convictions for abduction, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, R. Jarrett to six months, S. Jaques to one month, and Madame Monrey to six months, the last sentence only being with hard labour.
*This refers to the “test case” staged by Stead to expose the evils of White Slave Traffic- ED
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Fag Ash Note…..STEAD was a Journalist
Further reading W. T. Stead & the Virgin Trade: A "Special and Secret Commission of Inquiry" http://www.attackingthedevil.co.uk/worksabout/virgin.php
"Child of Thirteen Bought for £5" tells the story of the innocent and oblivious Lily, who is procured, subjected to chloroform, and left in a locked room of a fashionable London brothel:"And then there rose a wild and piteous cry...like the bleat of a frightened lamb... 'There's a man in the room! Take me home; oh, take me home!'". The man was Stead, and the child was Eliza Armstrong, whom he had procured from her own mother, just to show how easily it could be done.
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