Caroline the war of words continuing, but i think getting the use out to vote, it has been so persistently about the economy. When will we see it and sent of is to exert their democratic right right . Poor, 0 ,ne looking no change, no growth for european retail sales in the month of april. The market is expecting at least. 0 0. 4 increase eurozone still not looking all that pretty when it comes to the data. Polarity of the consumer in europe versus a better consumer and the United States, Charles Evans coming up. Our first word news. Nejra the u. S. Labor departments monthly job deport do well later this month later today. Payrolls rising by 160,000 in may. That would equal aprils total but would mark a slowdown from average monthly growth of almost 230,000 jobs. British Prime Minister David Cameron denying accusations he is ratcheting up fears about the impact of a potential brexit. Last night he defended while outlining the potential economic headlines from a departure. We have to ne
Thats why the name is now the blue room. Its a very high style french chair. This is the one that we discovered had the most original material still a part of its guilding and its surface features and so it has been restored to look like it probably would have looked in the Monroe Administration with some very beautifully burnished smooth surfaces to simulate metal. In fact, that is fwilded wood. And then the red upholstery fabrics were put on to recreate its original appearance so that this became, then, the specimen chair we could use at the Visitors Center while we still have other chairs in the suite up holstered in blue that are in the blue room. Since the arrival of this chair in 1961 the white house has upped its total to ten original pieces from the suite that was made by pierre belogge. It represents some of the grandeur of white house interiors, how the public rooms were meant to be impressive to foreign diplomats and american citizens who came to the white house for politica
Selling that at market. Those would be the sources of income for this family. So they are working hard, they are doing well. And they have they are basically the top of the working class. Could you refer to them as the midland sort. And again they are farmers. This is based on the woodhouse family. They have edward and cecilia and on one stone is says e. W. And that stands for edward wood house and this is his home and he and his wife cecilia has six children. You can see it is timber framing and there was not as much wood in england at the time. Things like ship building and tanning have deforested so youre going to need to be resourceful. But the fact that this person can afford wood and have wood and Wooden Furniture in his home shows he is doing well. And we have in the square panels we have quadle and daub. That is like a basket weave, and one plain, with one plain and you would have daub on one side and daub on the other. It consists of what you have on the farm, like straw, anim
Ireland, you have a lot of rain. So even though it is raining, you are not inside weaving because you have too much farm work to do so you only weave at night after supper. Economically at the type, you would say he is a strong farmer. But he was a midland sort which means he was middle class. Not the wealthiest realm but far from being the poorest. In the early years of the linen trade, everyone is making money so life is good. But with the depression, things started going bad really quick. The linen board, when they the linen industry goes to Northern Ireland with the french huguenots so they start teaching everyone how things are done. And then they set up the lynnon board to kind of govern the production of linen. And for the girls, they would go there and learn how to spin. And they would start when they are really small, because they have the tinily little fingers so they could spin a finer thread. And part of the graduation present is they would get their own Spinning Wheel. Now
In the case of woodhouses. So second and third sons are left with, you could say nothing, tangible. An the second and third sons would be leaving and going to america to seek their fortune, you could say. Or they could choose the military, the university. And maybe be an apprentice to another tradesman much like Joseph Woodhouse was. The other thing that i would like to mention that is a Common Thread is people are wanting to have a place of their own. Whether it be english or irish or german. And so if the oldest son gets everything, then the second and third sons are going to need to leave to go to america if they want to have land. And if you came to america, before 1700, paying your passage, of course, on a ship bound to virginia, you had the right to receive 50 acres of land for free. So that was an enticement for many of the second and third sons. My name is jerry kester and im a costumed interpreter on the scotch irish farm. The time period here is between 1720 and 1740 and the