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jawjagal
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Life in the 1500's
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6/20/2006 10:36:56 PM
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I think this is interesting....and, the author to this e-mail is correct....whoever said History was boring????????
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>LIFE IN THE 1500'S
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>The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water
>temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to
be.
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>Here are some facts about the1500s:
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>These are interesting...
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>Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in
>May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting
>to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor
>Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
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>Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the
>house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other
>sonsand men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the
>babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone
>in it. Hence the saying, Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
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>Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood
underneath.
>It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and
>other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it
>became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the
>roof Hence the saying . It's raining cats and dogs.
>There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house .. This
>posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings
>could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a
>sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy
>beds came into existence.
>The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt
>Hence the saying, Dirt Poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would
>get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw)
>onfloor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added
>more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start
>slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence
>the saying a thresh hold. & nbsp; Getting quite an education, aren't
>you?)
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>In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that
>always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things
>to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They
>would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold
>overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in
>it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme:
>Peas porridge hot,
>Peas porridge cold,
>Peas porridge in the pot nine days old..
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>Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.
>When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It
>was a sign of wealth that a man could, bring home the bacon. They would
>cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew
the fat.
>Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content
>caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning
>death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400
>years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
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>Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of
>the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the
>upper crust.
>Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would
>sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking
>along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.
>They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the
>family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they
>would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.
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>England is old and small and the local folks started running out of
>places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the
>bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these
>coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the
>inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they
>would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the
>coffin an d up t hrough the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would
>have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to
>listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was
>considered a ...dead ringer..
>And that's the truth...Now, whoever said History was boring ! ! !
Peggy Fullenkamp Oomens, RD, CNSD
Clinical Nutritionist, PICU
Phoenix Children's Hospital
1919 E. Thomas Road
Phoenix, AZ 85016
phone: 602-546-1796
pager: 602-202-2003
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