"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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"ned" wrote in message
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I think the comfort of Ladies Bedstraw came from the aroma which
masked the domestic odours of them long gone days.
:-)

I've been away for a week but I'm interested in what 'domestic odours' you
think would need masking and in which days?

Unwashed bodies, which bathed once a week, on a saturday night in a tin bath
in front of the fire, first in the bath were the children then father then
mother!

It was reported that many years ago before peple have a once a week bath,
that an upper class 'gentleman' when asked one day if he was clean, replied,
'Clean, clean, of course I'm clean I have a bath once a year, whether I need
it or not!'

Alan


Mary

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ned