I had just read this message when I noticed the subject line of the next
message is, "Applesauce Yoghurt Delight." Rather a contrast in subjects.
Ruth
At 7:46 AM -0400 5/6/04, [log in to unmask] wrote:
Cuyler,
Am I correct to assume that this commode in Granny's Parlor was a piece of
furniture, as opposed to a plumbing fixture? And do you have any sense of
whether it was USED in the parlor, or had just been relocated there by the
time you came (and went) along? I can't imagine people engaging in such
activities in the parlor.
As for the Romans and sea sponges kept in salt water, I just hope they
hadn't invented hemorrhoids by then. And that the Greeks had a different
system.
Ralph
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