Posted on 08/20/2005 9:03:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Sounds like a hippy commie group to me...
"They scattered herbs on the floor which released scent when trodden on - this drove out flies and other insects,"
Ms. Goodman....two words....FLEAS PLAGUE
Very interesting.
I'm a Welsh pure blood. Both my mom and dad were pure blood Welsh. My ancestors came over to Carbondale, Pa. to work in the coal mines. Whales has a lot of them.
People who worked in the Welsh coal mines used to spend all day there, and they'd get bored. So, they started singing hymns to pass the time. That's where the Welsh choirs come from.
Be nice to us. The only harm we've ever done is to force you to hear the signing every now and then. LOL. La la la la la!
11- Dying early means you won't have to worry about retirement or social security. Have as many children as possible...that is if your wife doesn't die in childbirth. That way, labor is spread evenly among the surviving children since the infant mortality rate is staggering. Who needs abortion or birth control when you have childhood diseases?
BTTT
Oh crap. My dad was one of fifteen children. (I'm outta here!)
Fleas live in carpets. I know from experience. And they don't live on plain wood floors.
Take a walk through a graveyard from these wonderful years gone by and you'll find a different story. People died younger and plagues and famines are easy to spot chronologically. Just a few miles or so from my house, near the Mississippi river, is a graveyard that goes back to well before the Civil War. One plot is especially sobering: a young mother and twins, all died during childbirth.
Once people survived childhood illnesses (barring any plague epidemics) they often lived to ripe old ages. Even then. The idea that hardly anyone lived past 40 is erroneous.
If half the people lived to 25 and the other half lived to 75, the average age is 50. But people died, ALLOT. You think there wasn't cancer in the 1600s? There was, but people just didn't know about. And men often outlived women, because the number 1 killer of women was childbirth.
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Where is the logic? Mutton is available all year around. They chose to shear and eat it in the Spring. What a bunch of dumb collectivists.
Anyone who's seen the PBS series, Frontier House, knows that life was very hard back then. The people on the series learned very quickly that life consisted of constant work from before-sun-up till sun down. Like washing clothes take 3 days, bathing is rare, clean water is rare, etc. Yeah, this group sounds like an agenda-pushing unit.
Blaaat. Wrong. Life expectancy was 45 years of age. Some people lived longer, a lot didn't. Deaths of women in child birth at early ages was common, death of everyone of simple wounds was common because of infection, death from diseases such as diphtheria, small pox, chicken pox, typhoid, typhus, cholera, mumps, measles and many other diseases were common in children and adults. We are talking about the 17th century, which means 1600-1699. Actually this life expectancy of 45 stayed around up into the 20th century.
The ripe old age you are referring to was about 50-60. Anything over that was extrememly rare. History is written and tells the story, it is there for those that want to read it.
Or, why the ancestors left. Flogging slaves on Nevis was easier.
Ha! got ya beat, my mom was one of sixteen kids!
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