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Sounds like a myth to me. People in houses without running water do, in fact, own bathtubs and do, in fact, take baths. I know, because I've been one of them.
by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Sounds like a myth to me.
People in houses without running water do, in fact, own bathtubs and do, in fact, take baths. I know, because I've been one of them.
- DoreenMichele 9y agoThis is not about Appalachia per se. My recollection is this also occurred in Appalachia. That detail may be inaccurate and is not really terribly important to my point: http://www.christopherfowler.co.uk/blog/2016/10/15/ps-more-on-the-working-class-people/ http://www.christopherfowler.co.uk/blog/2016/10/15/ps-more-o... There has been talk about coals being kept in the bath. I know how that story began. In the East End of London, 25 years ago, some well-intentioned people built houses for the working classes and put in baths. The baths were put in the scullery, and had neither a water supply nor a waste pipe. The rents were very high, and the tenants found it necessary to let some of the rooms, and as in those circumstances the fixed bath was found to be more trouble than a portable bath, and as there was no adequate coal cellar, the bath was used as a coal store. Why give baths to miners? Why give baths to agricultural labourers? They will put coals in the baths.” Why does any woman put coals in the bath? Because she has not been provided with a coal cellar. So long as you are not willing to give her a coal cellar, it is a proper form of protest to go on putting coals in the bath.”