"Storrmmee" > wrote in message
...
> my grandmother would sew a pad that looked similar in shape to the modern
> day ones but they had a tab on each end to pen to the underwear or later a
> belt... they had cotton sewn and quilted, then my grandmother would boil
> them in lye soap. sounds hidious but it seems everyone survived it... odd
> to think of talkng of what my mom used as a young girl and now i don't
> need any of that sort of thing anymore, lol, Lee

God I hated those sanitary belts with those metal tabs, and as someone else
said in another newsgroup, "those pads that were about the size of a twin
mattress." Glad to be rid of all that myself. :-)

Cheri