Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!cca!csin!cjh From: cjh@csin.UUCP (Chip Hitchcock) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re Tips and Pointers from H.L Mencken Message-ID: <308@csin.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Jun-83 12:17:05 EDT Article-I.D.: csin.308 Posted: Fri Jun 10 12:17:05 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jun-83 09:01:49 EDT Lines: 7 In response to your message of Tue Jun 7 13:06:06 1983: One of the interesting things about that quote is that it again displays Mencken's rather rudimentary knowledge of social history---in societies as far apart as medieval England and Japan for the last millennium, brewing was a women's monopoly (but it was a respectable profession for widows and spinsters rather than a mantrap).