No , I haven't watched this.  When's it on?  K.





--- "Elizabeth H. Thiers" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Finally got to this.  Has anyone watched the
> PBS shows Frontier House or
> 1900 House.  It's where they take people and
> place them in the world of the
> turn of the last century.  Frontier House is
> set in the American Frontier
> time and 1900 House is set in 1900 England.  If
> you ever hear of people
> talking about the good old days, have them
> watch those shows.
>
> beth T. the OT
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
> Of Kathy Salkin
> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 3:15 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: To Put Things in Perspective...A
> Hundred Years Ago...
>
>
> A Hundred Years Ago..
>
> ..The average life expectancy in the United
> States was forty-seven.
>
> ..Only 14 percent of the homes in the United
> States had a bathtub.
>
> ..Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
> A three-minute call from
> Denver
> to New York City cost eleven dollars.
>
> ..There were only 8,000 cars in the US and only
> 144 miles of paved roads.
> The
> maximum speed limit in most cities was ten mph.
>
> ..Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee
> were each more heavily populated
> than California. With a mere 1.4 million
> residents, California was only the
> twenty-first most populous state in the Union.
>
> ..The tallest structure in the world was the
> Eiffel Tower.
>
> ..The average wage in the US was twenty-two
> cents an hour. The average US
> worker made between $200 and $400 per year.
>
> ..A competent accountant could expect to earn
> $2000 per year, a dentist
> $2500
> per year, a veterinarian between $1500 and
> $4000 per year, and a mechanical
> engineer about $5000 per year.
>
> ..More than 95 percent of all births in the
> United States took place at
> home.
>
> ..Ninety percent of all US physicians had no
> college education. Instead,
> they
> attended medical schools, many of which were
> condemned in the press and by
> the
> government as "substandard."
>
> ..Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were
> fourteen cents a dozen. Coffee
> cost
> fifteen cents a pound.
>
> ..Most women only washed their hair once a
> month and used borax or egg yolks
> for shampoo.
>
> ..Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people
> from entering the country for
> any reason, either as travelers or immigrants.
>
> ..The five leading causes of death in the US
> were: 1. Pneumonia and
> influenza,
> 2. Tuberculosis, 3. Diarrhea, 4. Heart disease,
> 5. Stroke.
>
> ..The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona,
> Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and
> Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
>
> ..Drive-by shootings -- in which teenage boys
> galloped down the street on
> horses and started randomly shooting at houses,
> carriages, or anything else
> that caught their fancy -- were an
> ongoing problem in Denver and other cities in
> the West.
>
> ..The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was
> thirty. The remote desert
> community
> was inhabited by only a handful of ranchers and
> their families.
>
> ..Plutonium, insulin, and antibiotics hadn't
> been discovered yet. Scotch
> tape,
> crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea
> hadn't been invented.
>
> ..There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
>
> ..One in ten US adults couldn't read or write.
> Only 6 percent of all
> Americans
> had graduated from high school.
>
> ..Some medical authorities warned that
> professional seamstresses were apt to
> become sexually aroused by the steady rhythm,
> hour after hour, of the sewing
> machine's foot pedals. They recommended
> slipping bromide-which was thought
> to
> diminish sexual desire-into the women's
> drinking water.
>
> ..Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all
> available over the counter at
> corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist,
> "Heroin clears the
> complexion,
> gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the
> stomach and the bowels, and is, in
> fact, a
> perfect guardian of health."
>
> ..Coca-Cola contained cocaine instead of
> caffeine.
>
> ..Punch-card data processing had recently been
> developed, and early
> predecessors of the modern computer were used
> for the first time by the
> government to help compile the 1900 census.
>
> ..Eighteen percent of households in the United
> States had at least one
> full-time servant or domestic.
>
> ..There were about 230 reported murders in the
> US
> annually.
>
>
> NOTE:  Upon reflection, I'm glad I'm living now
> and not a hundred years ago.


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