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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

I doubt that my grandmother ever took a bath in her 92
years.  By the time they got a bathtub in her 70s she
was so used to "sponge" baths that she just never
bothered.
Van Dell

--- Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> >  A whole lot of people literally had a Saturday
> night bath
> > in a washtub -- a tin tub with water hauled in and
> water hauled out
> > and everybody washed in the same water with
> boiling water added from
> > time to time to keep it usable.
> 
> We "bathed" once a week needing it or not. The big
> copper canning  
> kettle was filled with water and heated to steaming.
> Hot water was  
> ladled into a pan for individual use. We took turns
> standing on a  
> towel in the kitchen, wetting a washcloth, soaping
> up good, rinsing  
> out the washcloth and wiping the soap off.
> 
> Going into town to high school provided luxury.
> After "gym" we got to  
> take a hot shower. I became addicted.
> 
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