Aunts worse than the devil...

fuente Left and center: Costumes of the Victorian era. Der: The writer Augustus Hare.

When important chairs are arranged for guests, the chairs are usually covered with a cloth that covers the legs. The custom comes from a time when everything was sin: they said that the chairs with their legs separated and exposed uncovered unspeakable thoughts. Then they proceeded to cover them, and until today the custom is maintained.

And as morality rejected women having genitals, in public parks there were only health services for men. And how did they do it? They carried a book in their hands, assumed a nostalgic and meditative attitude while standing beside a distant tree, and taking advantage of the extraordinarily broad dresses, relieved their pains.

This and much more happened in England, in the Victorian era, marked by a moral as hypocritical as severe. And at that time was born a man named Augustus Hare who was adopted by his aunt, dedicated to the rigorous education of the little one. His family had fed, for centuries, the British church of bishops and other dignities.

The aunt wrote in her diary: "Augustus has been 18 months and I have done obedient: he gives me his toys, without crying." Later, in the same diary, she wrote: "Today, when I was four years old, I taught him the words of St. Paul: life is too short to waste it on childish distractions. I destroyed all his toys."

He had forbidden her friendship with the children of the domestic servants. And one day, another boy, in an almost accidental encounter, gave him a mint candy. When the aunt discovered it, she wrote the following: "I washed her mouth for hours, and I scraped it with a spoon. Then I submitted it for two days to a purge of rhubarb and soda. Tomorrow I will call your uncle to apply corporal punishment."

The wife of that uncle, also with many religious in his lineage, one day discovered that the boy loved his cat. "Lend me for a moment," she said, and then hanged him in his presence. "A good Christian must get used to the pain. That is one of our virtues." This is what the aunt herself said in her personal diary.

Over the years, and although today is not well known, Augustus Hare became a famous writer, with travel books and stories. And he recounted some memoirs in which he confirmed, without further comment, the diary records of his aunts.

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