=60s lighting was provided by gas lamps, but electric lights had been instulled in the central area. | |

The old wooden washtub and the washboard, abetted by the cake of home=.: made potash soap, saw many years of hard service, but the new century brought qith it the push-pull washing machine. In most respects it was little better than the old scrubber; actually, ithe effort. required to operate it was considerably greater than that exerted on the washboard, and few housewives adopted it. When the crank-operated washer was developed, the push-pull disappeared irom the market.

Until the late 1800's home lighting was furnished by homemade tallow candles. Each autum, following the hog slaughtering, housewives made up the candle supply for the coming year, using the four-unit candle molds.

I remember seeing a number of those devices lying on a shelf in Grandfathor Devereux's carriage house. a

The kerosene lamp which supplanted the candle was available in a variety of styles; multiple hanging groups for churches, halls, and schools; table and bracket models for home use. Somewhere about the early days of World War One, a tremendous improvement in lighting was brought about in the form of a mantle type Jamp called the "Aladdin." It gave a clear, soft, white light superior to that of any electric bulb that I have yet seen; its only disadvantage seems to have been an occasional difficulty in adjustment. Only a,few months ago, I saw an Aladdin in a city dwelling, in use as a reading lamp and as an emergency light during power failure.

Prior to the turn of the century, all travel on the island was by boat, train, or horse and buggy. About 1905, a half-dozen automobiles were brought into the province where they immediately became the objects of universal hostility. They raised clouds of dust; they traveled at excessive speeds; they smelled bad; they frightened people and horses; they were a

menace to life and limb; relatives and visitors from abroad would - shun