Uneda.
Philadelphia.
Scottish Female Dress.—When did ladies cease to use hair-powder, face-patches, hoops, and high-heeled shoes? An old lady of about seventy recollects perfectly that her mother wore then all (so, she thinks, did her visitors, who came to a dish of tea) except the hoop, which was reserved for grand occasions. On the introduction of the new-fangled low-heeled shoes, she recollects her mother tottering about on them like a novice on skates, and groaning with pains in her legs, a victim to a change of fashion! At this time, she adds, was in every-day use the milk tally and bread-nick-stick. The first, that represented in Hogarth's picture; the second, a stick about a foot long, four-sided, on which each loaf was registered by a notch or nick in the stick; the servant kept a similar nick-stick as a check on the baker; but during the flirtation, common then as now on such occasions, the old lady slyly remarks, the baker often gallantly nicked the check-stick, as well as his own, with a couple of notches for one. Hence, possibly, the decline and fall of the use of this wooden system of book-keeping by double notch. Is any date assigned to the ceasing of the practice of using the wooden tally and nick-stick?
C. D. Lamont.
Greenock.
"The Innocents," a Drama.—Who is the author of a small volume of poetry, published anonymously about the year 1825, and which is very favourably noticed in the New Monthly Magazine for January, 1826, vol. xviii. The title of the volume is, The Innocents, a Sacred Drama; Ocean and the Earthquake at Aleppo, Poems.
S. N.
Waugh of Cumberland.—Can you inform a Waugh, the family arms of Waugh of Cumberland; to whom they were first granted, and why?
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