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Date Posted: 15:44:50 10/17/02 Thu
Author: Ann
Subject: Bathtubs
When Laura was a girl bathtubs had to be filled with water by using buckets (I assume). But how did they *empty* the tub? Did they have to scoop out the water bucket by bucket? Or did they somehow push the tub outside and dump the water out? Seems as if it would be too heavy for that? Maybe the tubs were on some kind of rollers?
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Re: Bathtubs -- Shell, 16:08:35 10/17/02 Thu
That's a good quetion. I don't remember reading that anywhere.That could be another reason that they used the tubs over. It was too much to fill and empty it for each person.
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Re: Bathtubs -- Cindy C, 19:43:52 10/17/02 Thu
Can you imagine having to get into somebody elses bath water? I wonder how many times it was re-used before fresh water was poured? I sure would have hated to be last in line, espessially if they took infrequent baths. That doesn't sound too refreshing!
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Good Question -- delilah, 14:40:31 10/18/02 Fri
I am not sure on that one. It is gross to think of them re-using the water. I know Farmer Boy discussed bath time. I would have to go back and see if they mentioned dumping the water after each person.
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Re: Bathtubs -- Ann, 15:08:44 10/18/02 Fri
I don't know about FB, but my impression is that usually they did *not* change the water between baths. Imagine how yucky (and cold) it must have been for the last person in a big family! On Frontier House Gordon Clune bought a tub at the store they'd set up some distance from the houses, and I think he rented it out as a money making scheme. He did let Nate use it for free as sort of a wedding gift on the day of the wedding. He was shown using it outside, but that was in July when obviously it would have been warm. But then you had to lug the water into the kitchen to heat it and then lug it outside, so maybe even in the summer people didn't change the water between baths.
I wonder how often they washed their hair?
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Re: Bathtubs -- Cindy C, 15:40:28 10/18/02 Fri
I remember reading a something a while back, about statistics of the year 1900, and it was said that they washed their hair on an average of once a month back then. I hope that isn't how often they took their baths! Seems I also read something somewhere about Saturday's being bath day. A week is still a long time to go with out bathing, in my opinion, and hopefully in the summer they went for a swim at least to get the sweat off of them. I would imagine the homes would have gotten pretty smelly with all the non-bathed bodies in it!
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Re: Bathtubs -- Ann, 17:30:20 10/18/02 Fri
I think they did take baths once a week, but I think they "sponge" bathed every day, so there was not as much, uh, buildup. As for their hair, maybe because they washed it only once a month is the reason brushing hair used to be such a big deal. A hundred strokes a night. It was probably one way of keeping it clean. I comb through my hair, but I never brush it. But of course it's easy for me to wash it twice a week.
I read once that Queen Elizabeth I said that she took a bath once a month "needed or not." :D
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Re: Bathtubs -- Cindy C, 23:57:03 10/18/02 Fri
I am laughing about the Queen Elizabeth 1 statement! :O) I also had a thought, that I think it is true that if one doesn't wash their hair regularly, their hair grows faster. Something about the natural hair oils? Didn't most of the women back then have long hair?
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Re: Bathtubs -- Ann, 12:03:28 10/19/02 Sat
I think it would have taken a real "rebel" to cut her hair. Ma even tsk-tsked when Laura cut bangs into her hair. Don't know if not washing it makes it grow faster, maybe it just feels that way, lol.
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Re: Bathtubs -- Jennifer, 10:19:57 10/22/02 Tue
Wouldn't bathtubs have a plug at the base in order to empty them??? Of course - if they are in the house that would be a pain. Maybe they would have the water drain to a bucket which was then dumped - reverse the process of filing the tub!
One of the Oregon Trails diaries I am reading (this one is actual a fictional book by Sandra Dallas) the character states that she washed her hair prior to leaving home and then braided it so she wouldn't have to worry about it for the entire 3 week trip!
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Re: Bathtubs -- Ann, 11:15:37 10/22/02 Tue
For myself as a young woman my hair would have been less a concern than my *scalp.* As a teenager it was oily and so I washed my hair (and thus my scalp) three or four times a week!
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Re: Bathtubs -- Lillian, 02:40:51 08/23/04 Mon
I wash my hair everyday of the week! LOL. It's funny because I thought that *washing* it would make it grow faster, because I thought my hair was short, but then my mom told me it wasn't, so I took her word for it! LOL.
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