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Date Posted: 15:08:44 10/18/02 Fri
Author: Ann
Subject: Re: Bathtubs
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's message, "Bathtubs" on 15:44:50 10/17/02 Thu
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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