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Show 11 OLD~PAPERMAKIN pounds, who worls from six to six, and he ough nottobea very tender lad. A mill with the prope utensils will stand one, minded to be a master, i 100 pounds, with a reserve of at least 200 pound cash for a stock of rags, etc. From this account it will be seen that the life o an apprentice in an eighteenth century paper mil wasanything butindolent. He was required to b at the mill by six in the morning ready for worls and notleave for his home until six at night. Th noon-day lunch was usually consumed while th apprentices were working, but the more lenien masters allowed fifteen minutes for the repast Many of the old German mills were provide with kitchens and sleeping apartments whic were used by the papermalkers. In Holland it wa the custom for the workers to live with the maste of the mill and they all had their meals at th same table., It was always considered proper fo the mill-hands to stop eating when the master lai down his spoon. There is a tradition that man of the old Dutch masters were very stingy and i order to keep the famished workers from overeating, the food was served steaming hot, so befor it had time to cool sufficiently to be eaten, the har master would lay down his spoon and the papermalkers had to leave the table before they wer fully satisfied. In the papermaking districts o Holland to this day whenever children are eatin Diital image© 2004 Mariot Libary, Universty o Utah. Al right reserved |