every night. Daughters of
Liberty held spinning and weaving bees, and gathered in bands
pledging themselves to drink no tea till the obnoxious revenue act
was repealed. Young unmarried girls joined in an association with
the proud declaration, "We, the daughters of those Patriots who have
appeared for the public interest, do now with pleasure engage with
them in denying ourselves the drinking of foreign tea." Even the
children felt the thrill of revolt and joined in patriotic
demonstrations--and a year or two later the entire graduating class
at Harvard, to encourage home manufactures, took their degrees in
homespun.

NOTE 50.

The cut-paper pictures referred to are the ones which are reproduced
in this book, and which are still preserved. Anna's father finally
received them. Mrs. Deming and other members of the Winslow family
seem to have excelled in this art, and are remembered as usually
bringing paper and scissors when at a tea-drinking, and assiduously
cutting these pictures with great skill and swiftness and with
apparently but slight attention to the work. This form of decorative
art was very fashionable in colonial days, and was taught under the
ambitious title of Papyrotamia.

NOTE 51.

The "biziness of making flowers" was a thriving one in Boston. We
read frequently in newspapers of the day such notices as that of
Anne Dacray, of Pudding Lane, in the _Boston Evening Post_, of 1769,
who advertises that she "makes and sells Head-flowers: Ladies may be
supplied with single buds for trimming Stomachers or sticking in the
Hair." Advertisements of teachers in the art of flower-making also
are frequent. I note one from the _Boston Gazette_, of October 19,
1767:--

"To the young Ladies of Boston. Elizabeth Courtney as several Ladies
has signified of having a desire to learn that most ingenious art of
Painting on Gauze & Catgut, proposes to open a School, and that her
business may be a public good, designs to teach the making of all
sorts of French Trimmings, Flowers, and Feather Muffs and Tippets.
And as these Arts above mentioned (the Flowers excepted) are
entirely unknown on the Continent, she flatters herself to meet with
all due encouragement; and more so, as every Lady may have a power
of serving herself of what she is now obliged to send to England
for, as the whole process is attended with little or no expence. The
Condi