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Subject:	Re: Before the Portable Toilet
From:	Ronald Whitaker <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 1 May 2007 12:54:40 -0400
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Thanks Colleen.  Even at my age I had no idea nor had I seen it referenced 
anywhere!  I am a mite smarter today.  Ron


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colleen Formby" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: Before the Portable Toilet


> --One wonders how the process was achieved for the ladies adorned in hoop
> skirts and layers of garments often required by fashion.  That would seem
> quite a chose in a facility, but in the woods......?
>
>
> Drawers that are worn under hoop skirts are split crotch, and so therefore 
> the layers are not a factor.
>
> Colleen Formby
> Maryland Room Librarian
> Prince Georges County Library System
>
>
> Colleen Formby
> http://www.geocities.com/col90/civilwar.html
> AGSAS
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>
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