Mom and I spent some time perusing some
of my books while she was here over Thanksgiving, including a one appropriately
titled Mother's Guide and Daughter's Friend, which was
written by "an old practitioner" in 1890. This bit about
building a tub was one that mom insists you read. She is a mother,
after all. She knows best.
1890: A Bath-Room
Not
an essential room, as a bath may be taken anywhere, but a convenient
one. It need not be larger than six by eight feet square. Any
one can make a bath-tub. Make a strong box of one and a half inch
plank, about four feet long, two feet wide and two feet deep,
and get a tinsmith to line it with zinc or galvanized iron. Make
a hole at one end and put in a spout to extend outside of the
house, to carry away the waste water. The bath-room may be warmed
by having the pipe from the kitchen stove or a stove in some adjoining
room pass through a drum in the bathroom A small sheet iron stove
which will get hot quickly will perhaps be more satisfactory.
Source:The Mother's Guide and Daughter's Friend ~ pp. 460-61 ~
Mom and I spent some time perusing some
of my books while she was here over Thanksgiving, including a one appropriately
titled Mother's Guide and Daughter's Friend, which was
written by "an old practitioner" in 1890. This bit about
building a tub was one that mom insists you read. She is a mother,
after all. She knows best.
Not
an essential room, as a bath may be taken anywhere, but a convenient
one. It need not be larger than six by eight feet square. Any
one can make a bath-tub. Make a strong box of one and a half inch
plank, about four feet long, two feet wide and two feet deep,
and get a tinsmith to line it with zinc or galvanized iron. Make
a hole at one end and put in a spout to extend outside of the
house, to carry away the waste water. The bath-room may be warmed
by having the pipe from the kitchen stove or a stove in some adjoining
room pass through a drum in the bathroom A small sheet iron stove
which will get hot quickly will perhaps be more satisfactory.