I learned another interesting thing in this book I just quoted. This author looks to be full of historic trivia. You know those chair sets women used to crochet right up through the 50's? They are called Antimacassars, I knew that, never knew why. You know a piece for the back of the chair and one for each arm? Men used to grease their hair with Macassar oil - thus anti-macassars - to keep the oil off the furniture. They greased their hair and wore those high starched collars that looked like they would cut your head off. They must have been as uncomfortable as women with hoops and bustles and stays - and the corsets pulled so tight you couldn't breathe - they couldn't breathe and they couldn't sit down. I think progress is a vast improvement. Norma