Shereen said...
>Anyone got any thoughts about the scarlet fever epidemic in Masha?
I can't comment on that one, I'm afraid, as I've never read the book. From
the brief description you provide, it sounds like a combination of "help!
What happens next?" and something that hadn't occurred to me:
Marguerite said...
> I seem to remember that Germany actually made it official that Frau could
be
> used by any adult woman,I don't know if since then [in the 1970s] it has
> replaced Fraulein . Any one from Germany on the list.AFAIK there is no
> equivalent to Ms in Germany or France.
When I
Debra wondered...
> Also I was wondering about TB - before antibiotics did people recover
> spontaneously, or did the people thought to be threatened who didn't
> actually die not really have consumption in the first place.
Yes, I believe some people did recover, due simply to their own body's be
Seena said...
>
> At both high school and primary school we called our teachers Sir and Mam.
> This seems to happen in the state schools, at least in the ones that were
> historically not for white people, and in the private schools they were
Mr,
> Miss or Mrs whatever.
In my State secondary schoo
Pat said...
> Me: Yes, definitely the Snow Goose, also another couple of Paul
> Gallico's - Jennie and Thomasina.
Oh yes, I always bawl my eyes out at *that* point in "Jennie". Also at
various points in the "Emily" books, Matthew's death in AoGG, Jack being
presumed dead in "Highland Twins"...an
Shereen wondered...
> << they dressed; it was realised that their clothing restricted their bodies
> and were bad for their health. One of the best-known clothes reform
> campaigners was Mrs Amelia Bloomer, who gave her name to the
> then-revolutionary garment.>>>
>
>I know I should know this, and
Natasha said...
> I read a fanfic on the Chaletian bulletin board about a Chalet Girl In
> Trouble last Sunday, and I cried at the end of that. It was very good, in
> case the author is on the list!
>
> http://fiction.chaletian.co.uk/all.php
Having read the same story, on foot of Natasha's recco
