A Late Drink of Water
Clare Briggs
Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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Costco Bottled Water is a miracle.
And getting up to run the water in the bathroom until the cold water shows up was a miracle within living memory for everybody in that cartoon.Report
most “cityfolk” (or middle class and up cityfolk) had indoor running water since the 1840s-50s.
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1325.html
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dep/water/history-of-new-york-citys-drinking-water.page
(probably the biggest enabler of suburbanization in the 20th century was not the automobile*, but the willingness to put ‘city water’ in relatively low density housing tracts.)
*in that streetcars were creating suburbs a generation earlier.Report