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>Martin Perdue wrote:
>>The arrangement you describe sounds like it might have been an earth
>>closet. This seems to have been something of a fad beginning in the
>>late 1860s and would fit the bill for a progressive 'book farmer' in the
> >mid-19th-century.
Harriet Beecher Stowe also recommended earth closets in her book on
household management.
I was intertested in the quote regarding women's modesty in being seen
>going out back " -approachable by delicate
>women only by means of a long walk" . . . "always exposed to the
weather, and not seldom to public view" A n 1870s midwestern book
on household management stresses the importance of women to use the
privy even if modest. "Allow nothing short of fire or endangered life
to cause you to resist, for one single moment, nature's alvine call, "
the author exhorts. Have other privy researchers found references to
modesty issues?? Was it an upper class/gender issue? I'm getting a
little off the subject, but the family that lived in this house was
rather eccentric, and I am curious why they choose to build their estate
the way they did.
Sigrid Arnott
Historical Archaeologist
Minnesota Historical Society
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Sigrid Arnott
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Minnesota Historical Society
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