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 …showed first 75 words of 423 total…

…showed last 75 words of 423 total…and would prove to be useful in life in 1900. I wouldn’t have volunteered to live in the 1900 house because I wouldn’t be able to sacrifice all of our present-day conveniences. I would certainly have been unable to keep to the pact that they adhered to and I would have broken many rules of social and political etiquette. I’m simply not cut out for 1900 living. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** "1900 House" Video; (c) 1999-2001 PBS, Inc.