Weekly bath day was Sat. in our family, had to be clean to go to church. My family had only one set of work clothes for each week and one set of going to church clothes. Mon morning the clothes washed the previous Monday were put on and worn until after the bath. Just realized how really dirty they must have been! Now this in NY state in the 1870's (from GGrandpa's diaries) but I'm sure families were the same in PA. There is one story in the diary about after threshing they went to the lake for a bath "Sure felt good". These stories have taken me back, we lived for 10 years near Kulpsville in Montgomery Co where we had many Mennonite neighbors. We had one neighbor who EVERY morning hung all the bed linens from the 2nd story window to air until after lunch. Barb