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curling hair - is it rude?

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Hgrove | 22:00 Fri 01st Apr 2005 | Phrases & Sayings
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I am reading "Three men in a boat" by J.K. Jerome, first published 1889. In Ch. 6 a group of people are lost in the Maze at Hampton Court. One of them has a map and tries to lead them to the exit but he keeps getting it wrong. Then "they told him to go curl his hair with it" (the map). Is this a Victorian euphemism for "go wipe your bottom with it"? I think I have read elsewhere that in Victorian times, loo paper was referred to as "curl papers".
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All the people who were alive in 1889 are now dead, as you have probably noticed.

Hi Hgrove

if I meet a particularly old person = older than I, then I will ask them. I think you used rubbish paper to curl your hair. And a man should not do girlie pursuits. And one should not dress one's hair in public - and in fact there were only a few rooms in the house that my mother would do her hair in.

Bog paper-  I'm not sure

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