[nopardons]

Evidently,it was NOT painful at all. Somehow,this method killed the roots and the hair never grew back,or if a few did,they tweezed them out.

I know about this from my grandmother,whose mother did it to her and her younger sister. My grandmother didn't know exactly how this was done and by the time my mother was born,wood stoves were NOT part of N.Y.C. apartments any more.

[exnavychick]

That's fascinating. But it still sounds scary as chit! LOL