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  • From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] 100 years ago
  • Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:39:30 -0800 (PST)

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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