Could you post Rose Knox' dates?  Many thanks.



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On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Jessy Randall wrote:

> Hello, all --
>
> I just learned an interesting little fact, and thought I'd send it to the
> list for lack of any better repository. The source of the fact is Knox's
> great grandson, writer David Graham.
>
> Here it is. Rose Knox, of Knox Gelatin, "a formidible Victorian woman who
> was locally famous for her teetotalling ways," printed DYCBYC on dinner
> invitations. It stood for "Drink Your Cocktail Before You Come."
>
> A little more on Knox and her teetotaling ways --
>
> "Though she died 3 years before I was born, Rose Knox was a vivid presence
> in my life as I grew up.  She also did not allow married couples to sleep
> in the same bed when they visited her, and frowned on beds being used for
> anything but sleeping, in fact.  One did not sit on a bed, for example, or
> read while reclining."
>
> -- Jessy Randall
>
>
>
> Jessy Randall
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