1900 House

The mother had the most difficult job in the 1900 house. This is evidenced by her continuous laboring (viz., sweeping, laundry, cooking, dressing, etc.). Eventually, she hired a maid to do the housework for her, but the laundry and cooking remained her tasks. The top two difficulties of the family during the three-month experiment were most definitely cleanliness and food. Cleanliness was hard to achieve given the options available (no hot water, no shampoo) until they …

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