"Hurry Up and Get Over Your Hot Flashes"

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"Hurry Up and Get Over Your Hot Flashes"

#1 Post by Spock » Thu Aug 30, 2018 12:39 pm

This surprised me a little bit and made me chuckle.

I am reading a book of letters from Frederick Russell Burnham's family on the frontier in Africa (1893-1896) to family back in the US.

"An American Family on the African Frontier."

They are making plans for the family to follow to Rhodesia when they are settled and Mrs. Burnham writing to her mother-in-law told her that "50 isn't so old" and "hurry up and get over your hot flashes."

Not the kind of thing that you picture written in an 1893 letter to a mother-in-law, but these were earthier people than we often think of them as.

Mrs. Burnham's description of dental treatment in 1893 Durban was also surprisingly modern.

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Re: "Hurry Up and Get Over Your Hot Flashes"

#2 Post by Spock » Thu Aug 30, 2018 7:39 pm

They slept 3 in the wagon bed-the parents and their 6YO son.

Amusingly, there were some slightly "naughty" jokes about their wedding anniversary.

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Re: "Hurry Up and Get Over Your Hot Flashes"

#3 Post by Estonut » Thu Aug 30, 2018 11:57 pm

Spock wrote:Mrs. Burnham's description of dental treatment in 1893 Durban was also surprisingly modern.
Uh, no, it means modern dental treatment is surprisingly 1893-ish.
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Re: "Hurry Up and Get Over Your Hot Flashes"

#4 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Aug 31, 2018 5:59 am

Estonut wrote:
Spock wrote:Mrs. Burnham's description of dental treatment in 1893 Durban was also surprisingly modern.
Uh, no, it means modern dental treatment is surprisingly 1893-ish.
Well, they didn't have high-speed drills back then (or when I was a kid).
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Re: "Hurry Up and Get Over Your Hot Flashes"

#5 Post by Vandal » Fri Aug 31, 2018 8:03 am

Bob Juch wrote:
Estonut wrote:
Spock wrote:Mrs. Burnham's description of dental treatment in 1893 Durban was also surprisingly modern.
Uh, no, it means modern dental treatment is surprisingly 1893-ish.
Well, they didn't have high-speed drills back then (or when I was a kid).

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