Posted on 12/24/2017 9:18:45 PM PST by Rebelbase
Flames would spontaneously combust from their eyes and their...whatever.
Red headed women most affected.
Longfellow’s wife died in a fire similar to the ones described here.
http://www.hwlongfellow.org/life_elder.shtml
Hot. I the 1800’s. More proof needed.
....Giving a Whole New Meaning to the expression,
... ...... “She must have been a Flaming Liberal”.
Women still burst into flames. Ask anyone who has to work around them.
Wow! I thought grandma only worried about being ran over by a reindeer. I had no idea she worried about catching fire. /s
Merry Christmas...
Trumps fault
p.s. Are you my huckleberry?
So long modest flowing petticoats are hotter than miniskirts and daisy dukes.
Everyone knows women were susceptible to fire due to fashion up until the what, the 20th century? So is the author saying this is due to bigotry and misogyny? iMO, it’s due more to ignorance and vanity.
Get rid of those dresses!
True story from my yute:
It was the 1950s; girl neighbor was trick-or-treating with her older brother; they were on the front porch of a house down the street, and the edge of her long, flowing costume touched the edge of a pumpkin; as you probably can imagine by now, the carved pumpkin had a candle lit in it.
Sadly, she burned to death on the porch. Traumatic event for the family and those who knew her as well. IIRC it was the first funeral I went to, as a kid. Sorry to be such a downer on such a Wonderful Day. God rest her immortal soul.
What if they had to go #2?
Maybe they used a colostomy bag like ol’ “boiled cabbage” Hillary.
She entered the room aglow............
Muslins are always combusting then and now
Rayon , Rayoff...
The Flammable Fabrics Act of 1953 brought about a change in how clothing was manufactured and sold commercially. As a result of this legislation, clothing could no longer be made out of dangerously flammable textiles. In order for a textile to be made into clothing it needed to pass Consumer Product Safety Commission tests before it could be sold. Special regulations have been created to ensure that children’s sleepwear is made of flame retardant fabrics.
https://oureverydaylife.com/the-history-of-flame-retardant-clothing-12399351.html
Thank you for posting. I never knew that. I found another page that said she caught fire from an ember from the fireplace and that his attempts to put the fire out scarred his hands and face. He wrote one poem about his grief 18 years later titled “Cross of Snow.” There’s a picture (link below with the poem) that shows a cross of snow on a mountainside that he once saw and in his poem, said that he bore across his heart from the day of her death. Touching and sad.
http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/paintings&poems/longfellow.html
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