Excerpt from Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Museum: January 1912 Heavy keys of different patterns, and excessive bulk and weight, queer iron stoves for burning wood, wonderful old quilts of patch-work, counterpanes of tuft or lampwick designs; books of patterns for the various homespun cover lets and other textile articles of home use; and heckles of every description for combing flax. The dining room is well supplied with utensils - knives, forks and spoons, of steel and wood or bone; dishes and glass; and a full series of pewter and moulds, show how the pioneers supplied their lack of silverware. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.