19th+Century+LifeAS209

= Heat =

There was always something exhilarating about those extremely cold days, when a very forest of logs, heaped up and burning in the great chimney, could not warm the other side of the kitchen; and when Aunt Lois, standing with her back so near the blaze as to be uncomfortable warm, yet found her dish-towel freezing in her hand, while she wiped the teacup drawn from the almost boiling water.People froze the tips of their noses, their ears, their toes; we froze our own.
 * Example 1**

http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=987


 * Example 2**

On What’s This World to Me

1st I view the earth with all its sweets I see each verdant tree I see the sun send forth its heat But what’s this world to me

http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=822


 * Example 3**

The summer business is the most toilsome, on account of the intense heat of a considerable part of that season. To lighten the labours of the field, the farmer and his men should be at their work early and late, and rest themselves in the hottest hours. http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=2045


 * Example 4**

The good husbandman, however, is not idle; his trees are to be pruned, and his stock must be daily and carefully tended http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=2045


 * Conclusion**

= Transportation =


 * Example 1**

//Before the nineteenth century, Americans traveled over long distances on urgent business or important family occasions. Almost no one traveled for pleasure. As the roads began to improve in the early nineteenth century, some affluent individuals started to travel for enjoyment, information, or health.// http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=32


 * Example 2**

//However, the trip from Newburyport, Massachusetts to Saratoga was a long and difficult one, which they traveled in their own vehicle. http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=32//


 * Example 3**

In Deerfield, last week, a young man, from Norwich, in this state, was severely injured by the kick of a horse. He was behind the horse holding the traces* from the ground while a man was leading it to attach it to a team to which it belonged, when the horse kicked him in the face with such force that he was taken up for dead, though hopes of his recovery are now entertained*. His lower jaw-bone was broken, and a number of his teeth were knocked out, beside which he received some other injury.—// Greenfield Herald //http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=93


 * Example 4**//

In this letter Samuel Freeman, who had emigrated from Sturbridge, Massachusetts in 1825, tried to persuade his brother and sister-in-law to visit him in Parma Ohio. He described the forms of transportation they would take on the trip, estimating how long the journey would take and how much it would cost. His own journey to Ohio with his young family, nearly twenty years earlier, had been much longer and more difficult. http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=114


 * Conclusion**

It is better to live today than to live in the early 19th century. Back then people did not travel for pleasure, but now we travel where ever we want to go for fun and our family taking us there just to go on vacation. It was not until the late 19th century that people started traveling for pleasure. But it was not like the traveling that we are doing today. It is really good living in the 21st century but not all the time. Some stuff that we do today happens with relation to the things that happened back then. Such as, a kid got kicked by a horse in the face. Horses were there basic transportation. Getting kicked in the face is an accident caused by what he got around with. Today, an accident caused by a car is more than likely to happen. People get hurt all the time by accidents with their vehicles. In my opinion, more than they did back then with the horses. Where ever we want to go, nowadays, we can get there pretty quickly. A lot quicker than when they tried to travel back then. There is different ways of thinking about what was a better time to live in. Nowadays, people wash their clothes in a dryer and keep the food cold with a refrigerator and all the good stuff. And we get our food from the grocery store by someone just putting it there. But we still have to pay for the food and the electricity use. And the money comes from work, so the people back then didn't have to work to buy their food. They had to work to get make their food. So it is almost the same thing. I still think that living today is better, but some people may think differently.