On Dec 9, 2005, at 10:40 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
That's why the French invented the perfume industry, everyone and everything smelled bad in that era...
" In Marseilles they make half the fancy toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel, just as they have acquired an uncertain notion of clean shirts, and the peculiarities of the gorilla, and other curious matters." -- Mark Twain
Bob

