英语词汇toilet paper的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

toilet paper. Toilet paper, or lavatory paper, which Nancy Mitford says is the “U” term for it, isn’t recorded until the 1880s. The first commercial toilet paper had been marketed, however, in 1857, when Joseph C. Gayetty of New York City began selling an unbleached, pearl-colored pure manila hemp product at 300 sheets for 50 cents. “Gayetty’s Medicated Paper—a perfectly pure article for the toilet and for the pre- vention of piles” had Gayetty’s name watermarked on each sheet. Before this the Ward and Sears’s mail-order catalogs were indispensable in the outhouses of America, and regret- fully, many other books have served this purpose. Wrote Lord Chesterfield to his son in the 18th century: “I know a gentle- man who was such a good manager of his time that he would not even lose the small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. He bought, for example, a common edition of Horace, off which he tore grad- ually a couple of pages, carried them with him to that neces- sary place, read them first, and then sent them down as a sac- rifice to Cloacina: this was so much time fairly gained, and I recommend you to follow his example . . .” A New York Times critic related an anecdote about a famous musician’s reply to a critic who had panned his performance the night before: the riposte began, “As I sit here in the bathroom, your review in hand . . .”

词汇	toilet paper
词源	toilet paper. Toilet paper, or lavatory paper, which Nancy Mitford says is the “U” term for it, isn’t recorded until the 1880s. The first commercial toilet paper had been marketed, however, in 1857, when Joseph C. Gayetty of New York City began selling an unbleached, pearl-colored pure manila hemp product at 300 sheets for 50 cents. “Gayetty’s Medicated Paper—a perfectly pure article for the toilet and for the pre- vention of piles” had Gayetty’s name watermarked on each sheet. Before this the Ward and Sears’s mail-order catalogs were indispensable in the outhouses of America, and regret- fully, many other books have served this purpose. Wrote Lord Chesterfield to his son in the 18th century: “I know a gentle- man who was such a good manager of his time that he would not even lose the small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. He bought, for example, a common edition of Horace, off which he tore grad- ually a couple of pages, carried them with him to that neces- sary place, read them first, and then sent them down as a sac- rifice to Cloacina: this was so much time fairly gained, and I recommend you to follow his example . . .” A New York Times critic related an anecdote about a famous musician’s reply to a critic who had panned his performance the night before: the riposte began, “As I sit here in the bathroom, your review in hand . . .”
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