LIFE AS IT USED TO BE LIVED IN GALWAY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 680, 24 June 1914, Page 3

LIFE AS IT USED TO BE LIVED IN GALWAY.

In three delightful chapters of th-j "Old Irish Life*" of Mrs. -Caldwell, respectively entitled "1 ho Cld House," '''By Land and Wat:r," r.nl. '"Everyday Life, - " there'ds a .sto.'eof domestic detail of thin-s as were in' Galway a coupla, of g.n rations ago of the . most varied kind. A few items at random \ < "Our ; household allowance was a sheep every week and - a bullock cn e a; month, a'l that could- not be eaten fresh; beihfj salted db.vn in. huge stone pickling-,troughs." "Ready money wai, incl:c;l, so scarce in Galway that v.hcoi play yai high- the stakes were frequently made in live stock, as being more plentiful than coin; A sheep a point and a bullock on the rubber wers recognised stakes at whist:" . '■"-As to light, we made our o" n candles—mould candles for rar'o u and draw;ing-room, and ' for Kitchen and nursery use." "In these days the postage oi a letter from. Dublin to Galway cotton" pcn.e; while from London it was ons-and-six." " • "My father, from/one of his visits to Dublin, had brought, back a small/ musical.box, then a very recent •in vention. • Tn a few - monuii;s all the .servants- rushed up from below stairs with blanched unl '. terrorstricken faces. 'The Lord Almighty look on us an' kape, us froai harm this night. We're ruinated and destroyed—it> the fairy music !' "