Dear List, I am so grateful to the folks that wrote about ancestors wearing winter clothes year round. My great grandmother did that too with the comment that what would keep out cold would keep out heat. I had concluded that she was senile or at least a little strange. She had another habit that I now wonder about. I've heard that when she visited anywhere she took her own beans tied in a piece of cloth. When the hostess put on a pot to cook, Grandma would put her little "passel" in to cook with the rest. Has anyone else heard of that practice? Sue McN.