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Title: Days and ways in old Boston
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Rossiter, William Sidney, 1861-1929
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Publisher: Boston : R. H. Stearns and company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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mFrance. I remember well a set of sable which asa young woman I possessed, and which I knowcame from that country. In extremely coldweather the men wore skin caps, of beaver andother furs, and coats of buffalo skins. In my youth, and indeed until after the CivilWar, nearly all our feminine needs were suppliedby importations from abroad. Hosiery and dressgoods other than calicoes and ginghams,—suchgoods, I mean, as poplins and silks—came fromEngland, Ireland and France. Russian linenswere especially fine, and as some of my familywere engaged in foreign trade we were favored insecuring goods of this kind. I recall that mymother had been presented at her marriage witha very beautiful set of household linen, madein Russia, in which was woven the AmericanEagle. While the war was in progress much discussionoccurred over the extensive use by Northernwomen of English and foreign goods, to whichmuch opposition was shown, and it was said thatwe Americans should patronize home industries. 42
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Recollections of Old Boston One day I met on the Common James L. Little,who was the manager of the Lawrence Mills. If you want us to buy American dress goods,I said, you must make stuffs suitable for our use.You cannot expect New England women to wearcalicoes and prints in winter. That is true, he replied, but we are too busywith the manufacture of prints to make any otherkind of goods. At that period our manufacturers were farbehind the needs of the nation, and I presumein some classes of goods the same condition existstoday. At this distance even to the few who remainto personally recall it, the decade from 1840 to1850 looks dim and remote. Senator Henry CabotLodge, in his recently published Memories,summed up most effectively the change which wasimpending at that period: The year 1850 stood on the edge of a newtime, but the old time was still visible from it,still indeed prevailed about it. The men andwomen of the elder time with the old feelingsand habits were still numerous and f

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