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To: brytlea
"how did we survive back before people regularly bathed"

People carried a pomander or scent ball to hold under their nose.

It wasn't so very long ago (1800's) that regular bathing especially in winter was considered unhealthy.

76 posted on 02/19/2010 4:26:08 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

I’m sure you were more used to it. I used to have friends who thought the middle ages was such a romantic time and would have gone back to that time if they had been able to. I always thought...yeah, well people were rather stinky by our standards today. I even watched the Lord of the Rings movies thinking...those people look very smelly. I think I’m too hygenic!


80 posted on 02/19/2010 8:09:50 AM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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