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jawjagal
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Life in the 1500's
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6/20/2006 10:36:56 PM
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I think this is interesting....and, the author to this e-mail is correct....whoever said History was boring????????
> > >LIFE IN THE 1500'S > >The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water
>temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. > >Here are some facts about the1500s: > >These are interesting... > >Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in >May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting
>to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor >Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married. > >Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the >house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other >sonsand men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the >babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone >in it. Hence the saying, Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. > >Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. >It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and >other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it >became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the >roof Hence the saying . It's raining cats and dogs. >There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house .. This >posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings >could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a >sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy >beds came into existence. >The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt >Hence the saying, Dirt Poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would >get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) >onfloor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added >more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start >slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence >the saying a thresh hold. & nbsp; Getting quite an education, aren't >you?) > >In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that >always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things
>to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They >would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold
>overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in >it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: >Peas porridge hot, >Peas porridge cold, >Peas porridge in the pot nine days old.. > >Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. >When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It
>was a sign of wealth that a man could, bring home the bacon. They would
>cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat. >Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content
>caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning >death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 >years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous. > >Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of >the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the >upper crust. >Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would >sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking >along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. >They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the >family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they >would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake. > >England is old and small and the local folks started running out of >places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the >bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these >coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the >inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they >would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the >coffin an d up t hrough the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would >have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to >listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was >considered a ...dead ringer.. >And that's the truth...Now, whoever said History was boring ! ! ! Peggy Fullenkamp Oomens, RD, CNSD Clinical Nutritionist, PICU Phoenix Children's Hospital 1919 E. Thomas Road Phoenix, AZ 85016 phone: 602-546-1796 pager: 602-202-2003
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