Posted on 08/20/2005 9:03:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I posted #75; you didn't. I'm assuming that you made a typo and "for" was meant to be "from". And yes, it was a "nice" reply, as have been all of my other ones. But you keep on pushing and I finally push back. Don't like it? TOUGH !;^)
But yes to the first part of your reply.
As usual you started the "pushing" when you so snidely accused LJ of not reading the article. I alerted you to your error but as is so typical of you, you couldn't admit you were wrong. Good thing I know you so well and wasn't holding my breath. : )
I did tell LJ ( and since when did YOU become that person's protector and avenger ?) to read the article. He said that the floor was bare, when it clearly stated that it was not. A "BARE" floor would be devoid of any covering,nude, naked, bereft of anything whatsoever upon it.
Finish reading. The animals that were slaughtered after the shearing were eight years old and their fleece was no longer of any quality. Why have and otherwise worthless animal eating food that could be used by productive animals? Kill the critter, age the muscle meat, tan the hide and make sausage out of most of the leftovers.
Yeah, I notice that every one of these points is completely generic--if you'd asked me for a list of liberals' advice for life, I could have given a similar list without doing the 17th-century Walden thing for a year. If that's all they "learned", how disappointing!
Just efficiency: they spend those six or eight months eating. Why go to the expense?
Anyone on the board want to confirm the average life expectancy of these Stuart era citizens?
Anyone on the board want to confirm the average life expectancy of these Stuart era citizens?
Bump up for better comments than mine.
Most of these rules held true on the farm till around the 1920's or so.
Just curious....what do you know about lavendar & eucalyptus as flea repelents?
Compared to today where the woman lives and the child is killed (abortion).
Carolyn
People lived longer in the Northern than in the Southern colonies. One reason was diet: tons of lentils and beans and abstemious Puritan veg up north, plus hard water (minerals); down south, hams and cookery with lots of sauces to clog the arteries, starchy foods and low-mineral soft water, plus warmer ambient temperatures more nearly ideal for incubating things that would kill you or make you sick.
An offshore drilling contractor acutely interested in reducing communicable disease in their living quarters found that setting the A/C to 66 degrees F greatly reduced common medical complaints like colds, flu, assorted kinds of The Crud. At that temperature, their onboard safety/health officer explained to me, common pathogens are a lot less active than at the mid-70's daily low temps that are the rule in the South in summer. (Last night, the 10:30 PM temperature in Houston was 84F, the low predicted to fall in the upper 70's.) Sounds like a key to me.
Life expectancy was such in the colonial South that English colonists who got married (the men usually waiting until their 30's -- as opposed to teens or early 20's in Puritan, kick-'em-out-young New England) could only expect an average of seven (7) years of married life together "until death do them part". This had consequences -- the South has always featured larger, "blended" families, step-relations, and uncles and aunts "living in" to help out after a spouse had died. Southern blended families with Negro mammies produced a very different worldview than nuclear Yankee families, which are the default model in the U.S.
1 in 4 women died from birthing. A problem birthing usually meant cutting out the child sacrificing the poor teen wives.
The icky dying processes and the dead was much more a personal experience for them than we 21st Century sorts. The deaths of so many children and child brides must have been overwhelming for survivors.
A show I saw (on PBS, of course) explained that in an outbreak of plague, the Yersinia pestis pathogen actually makes the fleas themselves sick, and alters their biting behavior radically, as well as their readiness to migrate from host to host.
Therefore the most salient fact of a plague outbreak is that the fleas fall ill and become voracious, hyperactive biters, spreading the pathogen rapidly.
The Welsh are WONDERFUL!!!! They're directly responsible for Catherine Zeta-Jones!
Mark
HA -- I'm not falling for that "be nice to Welshmen" buncombe!
I used to work for a Welshman, a bootstrapper from Wales itself. Guy left a trail of bodies and corporate wreckage behind him......but he's pulling down $4 million/year now, and all the people who know where the bodies are buried are long gone. I described this guy to my English cousin once, and he replied -- "yes, he's certainly a Welshman, all right!" Case closed. A pox on you all! Hiss, boo! on Welshmen! And that's not "prejudice", that's experience talking -- call it "postjudice" if you like, but it's the Real World. Never work for a Welshman!
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