旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 � About The Past, By Brian Page 21 � 쳐컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴캑 � TEA ANYONE?: When tea was first introduced in the American colonies many � � housewives were unfamiliar with the correct method of making tea, served � � the leaves with sugar or syrup after throwing away the water in which � � they had been boiled. � � � � LICE CRISPIES: Until the nineteenth century, just about everyone had � � lice, fleas, or sometimes even both. In the seventeenth century, it was � � considered bad manners to take lice, fleas or other things from your body � � and squish them between your fingers in company. � � � � DIRTY DAMSEL: Public bathes were open in Britain in the late seventeenth � � century. But really the wealthy were the ones who used them. Samuel � � Pepys mentions his wife going one time, but this was the only time in � � nine years of writing in his famous diary that he told of his wife � � bathing. � � � � EARTHQUAKING FASHIONS: In 1925 short skirts became fashionable. Some � � people could not cope with the frequent sight of women's legs. The � � Archbishop of naples in Italy said the recent earthquake at Amalfi was � � because of God's anger at a skirt that reached no farther than the knee. � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸