Sunday, August 31, 2003

GENEALOGE
blogging the blog

WOtta lotta typos

GROUNDFROST aka hoarfrost

HOSPITAL corners used by soldiers and nurses to make a bed which looks very rectangular for inspection by Matron, or the Corporal in charge of that barrack room.

stage 1

stage 2 of process


from Household Workers Training Project. in the New Deal Making a Bed

New Deal Network: The Great Depression, the 1930s, and the Roosevelt Administration: "an educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s. "



COLD BEDROOMS in the coal fired warmed english house,
bedroom fires were only lit in case of illness, so one always slept in a cold bedroom often with the window open down to freezing point

Therefore pyjamas of flannel, hot water bottles, heated bricks, bed warmers of copper, dressing gowns , fur lined sheepskin sleepers. . .

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