Curiosities of the years 1600 to 1700. Very interesting.
It is impressive when we visited the Palace of
Versailles, in Paris and we observed that the magnificent palace doesn't have bathrooms.
In the Medium Age, the toothpastes, a lot of meno toothbrushes or perfumes didn't exist, deodorants much less and toilet paper, nor to think...
The human excrescences were spilled by the windows of the
palace...
In the palace the kitchens got to do feeding for parties
of 1.500 people, without the low hygiene that today considered
indispensable. The people being fanned, that we see in films, has badly as explanation the smell that they exhaled underneath the skirts, that were propositalmente done to contain the scent of the intimate parts, that didn't have as being properly cleaned and associated to the habit of not taking bath due to the cold. The smell was camouflaged by the fan. The noblemen were the only ones that they could have subjects that fanned them, to spread the bad smell that the body and your mouths exhaled with the bad breath, besides being a form of frightening the insectsWho was already in Versalies admired the enormous gardens a lot and
beautiful that at that time they were not only meditated, but " used " with toilets in the famous ballads promoted by the monarchy. (bathroom didn't exist).
In the Medium Age, most of the marriages happened in the month of June
(for them, the beginning of the summer). the reason is simple: the first bath of the
year was taken in May; like this, in June, the people's smell was still tolerable.
However, as some scents they already began to be exhaled, the
brides carried bouquets of flowers close to the body, to disguise the bad smell.
Then we have May as the brides' " month and the origin of the bouquet of explained bride.
The a shower were taken in an only tub, enormous, full of water
hot.
The boss of the family had the privilege of the first bath in the water.
Then, without changing the water, the other men of the house came, for
order of age, the women, also for age and, finally, the children. The babies were the last ones to take bath. When it arrived their time, the water of the tub it was already so dirty that was possible " to lose " a baby there inside. It is for that that the expression exists in English " don't throw the baby out with the bath water " ;ou it is, literally " don't throw the baby with the water of the bath".
The roofs of the houses didn't have lining and the wood that sustained they were them the best place for the animals - dogs, cats and other, of small load, as mice and beetles - if they heat up. When it rained, they began the leaks and the animals jumped for the ground. Like this, our expression " is raining cats and dogs " has your equivalent one in English in " it's raining cats and dogs ".
Those that had money possessed tin plates. Certain food types rusted the material, what did with that a lot of people died poisoned (we remember that the hygienic habits of the time were not there great thing...). The tomatoes, being acid, they were considered, for a long time, as poisonous.
The tin glasses were used to drink beer or whisky. That combination, sometimes, left the individual " in the ground " (in a type of narcolepsy induced by the alcoholic drink and for the oxide
of tin). Somebody that went by the street could think that him
it was dead, therefore it picked up the body and he/she prepared the funeral. The body was placed then on the table of the kitchen by some days and the family was in turn, in vigil, eating, drinking and waiting to see if the dead woke up or not. Then, the vigil of the coffin appeared.
England is a small country and not always there was space for
all to bury deads. So, the coffins were open, the bones removed and the grave was used for another dead body. Sometimes, when opening the coffins, they noticed that there was
scratches in the covers, inside, what indicated that that died, actually, it had been buried alive. Like this, the idea appeared of, when closing the coffins, to tie a ribbon in the deceased's pulse, it removes that that went by a hole in the coffin and it was tied in a bell. After the funeral, somebody was of duty beside the grave during one days. If the individual woke up, the movement of your arm would make the bell to play. And he would be " saved by the bell ", or " I save for the gong ", expression that for us used until the current days.
What will be that will say of us in the year of 2.400???
It is impressive when we visited the Palace of
Versailles, in Paris and we observed that the magnificent palace doesn't have bathrooms.
In the Medium Age, the toothpastes, a lot of meno toothbrushes or perfumes didn't exist, deodorants much less and toilet paper, nor to think...
The human excrescences were spilled by the windows of the
palace...
In the palace the kitchens got to do feeding for parties
of 1.500 people, without the low hygiene that today considered
indispensable. The people being fanned, that we see in films, has badly as explanation the smell that they exhaled underneath the skirts, that were propositalmente done to contain the scent of the intimate parts, that didn't have as being properly cleaned and associated to the habit of not taking bath due to the cold. The smell was camouflaged by the fan. The noblemen were the only ones that they could have subjects that fanned them, to spread the bad smell that the body and your mouths exhaled with the bad breath, besides being a form of frightening the insectsWho was already in Versalies admired the enormous gardens a lot and
beautiful that at that time they were not only meditated, but " used " with toilets in the famous ballads promoted by the monarchy. (bathroom didn't exist).
In the Medium Age, most of the marriages happened in the month of June
(for them, the beginning of the summer). the reason is simple: the first bath of the
year was taken in May; like this, in June, the people's smell was still tolerable.
However, as some scents they already began to be exhaled, the
brides carried bouquets of flowers close to the body, to disguise the bad smell.
Then we have May as the brides' " month and the origin of the bouquet of explained bride.
The a shower were taken in an only tub, enormous, full of water
hot.
The boss of the family had the privilege of the first bath in the water.
Then, without changing the water, the other men of the house came, for
order of age, the women, also for age and, finally, the children. The babies were the last ones to take bath. When it arrived their time, the water of the tub it was already so dirty that was possible " to lose " a baby there inside. It is for that that the expression exists in English " don't throw the baby out with the bath water " ;ou it is, literally " don't throw the baby with the water of the bath".
The roofs of the houses didn't have lining and the wood that sustained they were them the best place for the animals - dogs, cats and other, of small load, as mice and beetles - if they heat up. When it rained, they began the leaks and the animals jumped for the ground. Like this, our expression " is raining cats and dogs " has your equivalent one in English in " it's raining cats and dogs ".
Those that had money possessed tin plates. Certain food types rusted the material, what did with that a lot of people died poisoned (we remember that the hygienic habits of the time were not there great thing...). The tomatoes, being acid, they were considered, for a long time, as poisonous.
The tin glasses were used to drink beer or whisky. That combination, sometimes, left the individual " in the ground " (in a type of narcolepsy induced by the alcoholic drink and for the oxide
of tin). Somebody that went by the street could think that him
it was dead, therefore it picked up the body and he/she prepared the funeral. The body was placed then on the table of the kitchen by some days and the family was in turn, in vigil, eating, drinking and waiting to see if the dead woke up or not. Then, the vigil of the coffin appeared.
England is a small country and not always there was space for
all to bury deads. So, the coffins were open, the bones removed and the grave was used for another dead body. Sometimes, when opening the coffins, they noticed that there was
scratches in the covers, inside, what indicated that that died, actually, it had been buried alive. Like this, the idea appeared of, when closing the coffins, to tie a ribbon in the deceased's pulse, it removes that that went by a hole in the coffin and it was tied in a bell. After the funeral, somebody was of duty beside the grave during one days. If the individual woke up, the movement of your arm would make the bell to play. And he would be " saved by the bell ", or " I save for the gong ", expression that for us used until the current days.
What will be that will say of us in the year of 2.400???