Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1930, Page 116

HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY HIS VEAR MARKS THE THREE -HUNDREDTH ANNIVER- SARY OF THE LANDING OF THE PURITANS WHO CAME T0 AMERICA TO FIND RELIG- 10US LIBGERTY AND FOUNDED THE COLONY OF MASSACHU*~ SETTS BAY. o THE STORY OF THEIR STRUG- (i GLE TO ESTABLISH HOMES IN A STRANGE, WILD LAND 1S ALSO THAT OF ALL THE OTHER COLONIES ON THE ATLANTIC SEABOARD: —*° !HE EARLY SETRLERS HOME- WAS CRUDE AND UNCOMFORTABLE: OFTEN THE BARE GROUND SERVED AS A FLOOR,,WHILE SHEETS OF OILED PAPER TOOK THE PLACE OF WINDOW GLASS._ ° DEPENDABLE SOURCE OF FOOP> SUPPLY WAS A VITAL NECESSITY. MoST OF THME COLONISTS IMAD BEEN FARMERS IN ENGLAND AND>, NATURALLY, THEY TURNEP TO AGRICULTURE IN THEIR NEW HOME. FEW AND FAR BETWEEN, AND THE COLONISTS WERE THROWN ON THEIR OWN RESOURCES; BUT ITWAS THIS VERY ISOLATION THAT LE]D THEM TO BECOME SELF-SUSTAINING AND BRED INTHEM A SPIRIT OF INDEPENDENCE . TOGETHER FOR MUTUAL PROTEC - TION. IN MANY CASES THE VILLAGE WAS SURROUNDED By A PALISADE FOR ADDED SECURNTY. rzom FRIENDLY INDIANS THEY LEARNED HOW TO PLANT CORN,BEANS AND PUMPKKINS AND> TO MAKE THEIR FIELDS MORE FERTILE BY BURYING FISH IN THE FURROWS .T REQUIRED ENDLESS HARD LABOR TO MAKE A HOME IN THE WILDERNESS . FIRST, TREES HAD 70 BE FELLED> TO CLEAR THE LAND AND SUPPLY TIMBER FOR A HOUSE. VERY MAN HAD TO BE A JACK-OF-ALLTRADES IN THOSE DAYS. HE HAD> NOT ONLY TO BUILD HIS OWN HOUSE, BUT MAKE THE FLURNITURE FOR IT AS WELL. !HE SURROUNDING FOREST ABOUNDED WITH DEER AND WILD TURKEYS, AND THE SETTLERS WERE ABLE TO KEEP THE LARDER FILLED WITH GAME-. Copyright, 1930, by J.Carroll Manstield HE FIRST CABINS WERE BuiLT EITHER OF LOGS OR TIMBERS ROUGHLY SQUARED WITH THE ADZ. BUILDING A HOUSE WAS A COMMU- NITY UNDERTAKING IN WHICH ALL THE NEIGHBORS LENT A HAND, —° A PURITAN INTERIOR —~ e | ome COLONISTS BROUGHT A LITTLE FURNITURE WITH THEM FROM THE OLD COUNTRY. THESE- PIECES SERVED AS MODELS FOR THE HOME-MADE FURNITURE —o RN A7 W J !HE PURITANS BROUGHT CATTLE WITH THEM FROM ENGLAND, ONE MAN IN EACH COMMUNITY WAS GIVEN THE TASK OF HERPING AND GUARDING THE ANIMALS OF THE VILLAGERS. -7 8¢ cou-nm:f]