ANST - Event Steward vs Autocrat

[Mark.S Harris]

> Almost as "cute" as Nermal, but no "seegar."  Toilet paper wasn't used in
> period in Europe.  The Chinese used it, but there was no technology transfer
> through the Arabs, who considered it unsanitary.
> 
> Bear
> 
> > Don't know how period it might be, but I thought about *Keeper of the
> > White scroll*  :)
> >
> > Gilli

Well, while toilet *paper* wasn't used, scraps of cloth, clumps of sheep
wool and other things were.

For more info, see this fairly new file in the PERSONAL CARE section of
my Florilegium:
p-privies-msg     (27K)  5/ 4/99    Period privies and toilet paper. bum-wipes.

There is a funny story in there about an individual's prize possesion - a
bumwipe salvaged from an emergency archeological dig.

My Florilegium (full of even more unusual, sometimes amusing) information
can be found at:
http://lg_photo.home.texas.net/florilegium/index.html

Lord Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
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