TRIVIA or FACT or ....

ORIGIN OF PROVERBS OR

FAMILIAR EXPRESSIONS

I got this information on the Internet, so you have to read it with scepticism, I suppose. I have not researched this info, sometimes they are myths or what we sometimes call ‘urban legends’ today. The following two actually date far back to the beginning of the North American colonies, so they might really have a truth to their origin. They might be factual. Here they are: 

  

No.1 Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of being first and got all the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.

*** Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."

No.2 Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. 

*** Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

So what do you think?

Does it make sense to you?

Do you question these origins of ...?

It was just for fun and 

an amusing explanation!

Suzanne