Saturday night bath used to be the standard.......
My aunt was a school teacher in a high school in rural East Texas back in the 1960’s. Spring time was in bloom and the kids were getting ripe. So she suggested to the kids to get a bath over the weekend. One big goof kid said, “Oh no, not the river again”.
“Saturday night bath used to be the standard.......”
Yeah, lots of other things were also standard back then too like outhouses, Cholera, etc.
Saturday night bath used to be the standard.......
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Some also used church nights as bath nights.
It was when I was a kid, at least in my family, but my folks were from the rural south, and grew up without running water. I think most of the other people in my neighborhood probably bathed more often, by habit. And I would guess that training in the armed services taught most men to bathe or shower more frequently, when they had the opportunity, of course. And our bathroom didn’t even HAVE a shower -— just a tub, as was common in many older homes.
Yep if you have to carry water for a quarter of a mile or
haul it five miles behind a team of horses and in the winter
haul and chop wood to heat it with you just sponge bath
through the week and take a bath on saturday.
In the summer hopefully you live walking distance to a pond or
stream.
But the goodie two shoes of today who critisize the most would
rot before they would walk five or ten miles to a cold pond or
stream.