Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Victorian-era paper blog
A handwritten journal attributed to a woman who lived in Boston in 1878 is for sale on eBay. It's filled with talk of star quilts, boiling sheets, chamber pots, bed tick, collar boxes, ginger cakes, feather pillows, corsets, stabbings and head wounds. Our ancestors called these things "DIE-ah-rees." Link (Thanks, Robert)
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