Was+Life+Better+In+The+19th+Century?JESSEB

=**Chores**=

Little girls would begin taking care of their even-younger brothers and sisters and would help in the kitchen — sometimes by pounding rock salt or loaf sugar into the granulated form we're used to today. They would then learn to clean house, make beds, and sew.As they grew older, they were given more and more responsibilities. By her early teens, a girl might be taking care of a toddler, sewing her own clothes, cooking, helping her mother with the garden, and learning how to make butter and cheese.Boys had more outside tasks to do. They started off by carrying wood for the fireplace or protecting the crops by throwing stones at birds. They ran errands, helped dig potatoes out of the ground, and hauled stones (probably including some of those they threw at birds) out of the fields. As they got older, they were given harder work, like helping with ploughing, hoeing, and harvesting. A boy whose father had a trade might help around the shop in small ways long before he was old enough to begin an apprenticeship. I think that life now is much easier than life back then, because now, we can buy most of the items that the people in the 19th century had to make. For example, salt, clothes, butter, cheese, and potatoes.