Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-raja!merrill From: merrill@raja.DEC Newsgroups: net.women Subject: beatings in the Old Days Message-ID: <1025@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 09:11:14 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.1025 Posted: Thu Oct 24 09:11:14 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 03:38:33 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 9 Actually wife-beating was once upon a time such a Labor that a genuine United States Patent was issued for a "wife-beating machine"! (I once had the number, really, but it's probably lost in the archives now.) Rick Merrill ( I assume it was only used for masochists! )