did they use toilet paper?
or hand?
shareLeaves, I'm sure.
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Montgomery Ward's catalog.
You see, they were too poor to by anything from it but that's not to say it wasn't looked forward to.
Toilet paper as we know it today has been around since 1857 so I guess they did use it.
shareToilet paper as we know it today has been around since 1857 so I guess they did use it.
shareUnlikely. It's doubtful that it would've been widely available especially on the prairie. They probably used corn cobs or straw which would have been normal for rural folks in those days.
shareNewspapers?
shareMaybe, but they rarely went to town. Maybe catalogs which could last a long time:
"Barry Kudrowitz, associate professor and director of product design at the University of Minnesota, has studied the history and use of toilet paper. Through the 1700s, corncobs were a common toilet paper alternative. Then, newspapers and magazines arrived in the early 18th century. “The ‘legend’ goes that people were primarily using the Sears catalog in outhouses, but when the catalog began to be printed in glossy paper people needed to find a replacement,” says Kudrowitz. Americans also nailed the Farmer’s Almanac onto outhouse walls, leading the company to pre-drill the legendary “hole” into their publication in 1919."
https://www.history.com/news/toilet-paper-hygiene-ancient-rome-china
Romans sat next to each other without a partition and shared a communal sponge. Gross!