Hat and Rehat
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It cuts through you like a knife too, because of the high humidity.
I have a feeling though that the early champions of Chicago's promising bounty failed to mention the weather.
I learned that little tidbit on a US History program on PBS manyears ago. It was instruction that some viewers tested on, for credit. I just watched it because the instructor was great, and provided all kinds of peripheral knowledge. Another insight he shared that stuck with me had to do with hat pins.
When railroads were young, and were burning fuel in actual fireboxes, traveling through tunnels was not a pleasant experience. The entire train would fill with thick smoke, and the passengers would hold kercheifs to their mouth as they coughed and gasped for air. It was nearly pitch dark between the tunnel and the smoke, and on occaison a lonely male passenger, it seems, saw this as an excellent opportunity to, well, explore the anatomy of another passenger, one of the fairer sex. Later it became known as, "copping a feel".
It seems a hat pin was an extremely effecive deterent when used with vigor.
I have a feeling though that the early champions of Chicago's promising bounty failed to mention the weather.
I learned that little tidbit on a US History program on PBS manyears ago. It was instruction that some viewers tested on, for credit. I just watched it because the instructor was great, and provided all kinds of peripheral knowledge. Another insight he shared that stuck with me had to do with hat pins.
When railroads were young, and were burning fuel in actual fireboxes, traveling through tunnels was not a pleasant experience. The entire train would fill with thick smoke, and the passengers would hold kercheifs to their mouth as they coughed and gasped for air. It was nearly pitch dark between the tunnel and the smoke, and on occaison a lonely male passenger, it seems, saw this as an excellent opportunity to, well, explore the anatomy of another passenger, one of the fairer sex. Later it became known as, "copping a feel".
It seems a hat pin was an extremely effecive deterent when used with vigor.