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Date Posted: 23:52:32 11/12/04 Fri
Author: Lillian
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Bathrooms back then.....

I wonder how people back then used to use the bathrooms. It must've been nasty. But I also wonder if they had port 'o' potties!! LOL

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[> Re: Bathrooms back then..... -- Ann, 12:52:34 11/13/04 Sat

Certainly out on the prairie it was still outhouses. Don't know if there was anything better than that anywhere back in the 1880's and 1890's. Of course, there was the "commode" for inside during a storm, too dark a night, somone too ill to go outside, a jar or bowl or bedpan that would have been used, its "contents" disposed of outside later. Yuck!

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[> [> Re: Bathrooms back then..... -- Lillian, 01:46:42 11/14/04 Sun

EWWW! I would never had done that! Especially outside! But I guess that was life back then. But do you know (Ann) when they invented the 'toilet.'

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[> [> [> Re: Bathrooms back then..... -- Ann, 11:54:25 11/14/04 Sun

Here's link with some history of the toilet. The first patent was in 1775, though there's evidence of earlier ones. Looks as if around 1900 things really got "going" in the world of toilets.

As for toilet paper, I found: "We might owe the 1857 invention of toilet-paper to American, Joseph Coyetty. We do know that in 1880, the British Perforated Paper Company created the first paper to be used for wiping after using the toilet. This paper did not come in roll form, it came in boxes of small pre-cut squares. Toilet-paper in roll form became common in America by 1907.

Also, this has a lot of "fun facts" and makes for interesting reading! http://www.toiletpaperworld.com/tpw/encyclopedia/navigation/funfacts.htm

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[> [> [> [> Oops -- Ann, 11:55:59 11/14/04 Sun

Here's the link about the toilets: http://www.toiletpaperworld.com/tpw/encyclopedia/navigation/funfacts.htm

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: Oops -- Oops, 17:40:44 06/29/05 Wed

Can you imagine washing out cloth feminine hygine things?

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[> [> [> [> Re: Bathrooms back then..... -- Lillian, 13:01:45 11/14/04 Sun

VERY INTERESTING.

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: Bathrooms back then..... -- I prefer not to, 23:52:51 11/16/04 Tue

check this out! www.divacup.com

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