Mesquite High School - Mesquite O Yearbook (Mesquite, TX)

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Education above the elementary was not often open to girls in the Below: When the men marched off to the Revolutionary War, the women went to work. The colonial ladies became barbers, scientists, publishers. merchants, butch- ers, and blacksmiths. . l i n N' tj' 'QM 1 4.5311 ni' f J J 'f i A . . Nt.. ' lI4Lgv3Q5i1 ' .j, t.f'51,QLW Nflf1'ffl,?l?'.'slsf ESP-lei 'llllllk' il-' viif' 'f ' T' ffl -4 i Y in V .ll .ff ' t A ' i ' -. F 1: l- ' ' ' ...Lvl ' li x ,li -5. 1 .,'t wk? ' V - ,r vrnvvvk I Q 1 If 9 gf? ' Elm - I Q' Below: Election day in 1776 was a friendly occasion. Although it was against the law for candidates to offer voters any money, meat, present, gift, reward, or entertain- ment. the usual ways of getting votes were with large amounts of barbecued beef and pork. served with punch and gin- ger cakes. Left: Colonists in New York got most of their water from public pumps. But New York pump water was so bad. that horses of out- of-town strangers refused to drink it.

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Right: There were no handy, throw-away Bic pens in l776. Quill pens, cut by hand with a penknife from goose quills, were used. Colonists reported that in the cold northern winters the ink some- times froze on their pens as they wrote within a few feet of the fire. Below: Superstition took the place of scientific knowledge in the colonies. Many people believed that if a long hair from a horse's tail were left in water, it would turn into a snake. It was long held that some birds grew on trees and wintered at the bottom of ponds. 42' l -43-, LQt s.....,..-5 Right: Usually only colonists of the upper ' classes could play musical instruments.

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Right: The bag wig and the bob wig, with rows of curls about the sides of the head, were popular colonial styles for men. The more comfortable, wigless look was intro- duced by Benjamin Franklin. Y Guy 325 ff X 197'-? K fix W 5' 5, H au is E X9 Q und I 5 20 ,'Q'Zf' , .xg :rfb f .. i Qs E 'xg' ff i 'N PM - a i 1'6 4? ' ' ME? ii iq, I f , A, :Y g.: ,ii 'mi ,li V 1:12-i. , 1 ff, Yi T'Sf'Q'1x ' . A 41 Era-2-- f 1' 5533- jx'-5. ,-' -v ff, 'Q pp li' If Ill 1 - . feiii, i . ii ?Ei 1 I fr 322i '- :' + ' Q- if E Ee-53 it . 4 fl.:- L 3 ' - , nf 52' 533 33 fl -- Righz: Today's styles in clothes and hair are much simpler than in 1776. Colonial women had to wear huge wigs, wired dresses, and beauty spots to be fashiona- ble. -v+ 58-., lea 'LJ '. 1 9:7 V , Q 1 i 5