1890 Survival Quiz - The Parlor

Would you have survived at the time of Allan Luce and Emily Fish?
(one point each and we won't tell anyone!)

NO CHEATING! NO ELECTRONICS IN 1890

1) always grown some of your own fruit and vegetables
2) played a musical instrument(s)
3) driven a horse drawn carriage or wagon
4) saddled a horse
5) used a communal outhouse (digging your own hole does not count)
6) toilet paper came in sheets and was rough in texture
7) used a cast iron wood or coal burning stove for cooking and baking
8) used and maintained kerosene lanterns for light (and lighthouse light)
9) gotten fresh meat at local butcher shop you could walk to
10) taken a steam powered train into a major city (SF for PPLH)
11) hand crafts for pleasure: painting, sewing, carving, etc.
12) sutured a wound with available needle and thread
13) used stereoscope to view 3D scenes
14) could read and play sheet music for a piano
15) joined a local social club for entertainment and company
16) made bread using commercial brewer's yeast
17) drank water from a local spring
18) bought whole chickens or fish and cleaned them yourself
19) used a roll film box camera and sent it in to have pictures processed
20) bought ready made cloth to make clothes from
21) used a mechanical foot powered sewing machine
22) washed your clothes in a tub with homemade soap
23) been with someone when they died
24) saw your first ‘movie’ on an Edison Kinetoscope
25) made lumber for use from a fallen tree, using only hand tools
26) made candles from beef fat
27) ever sent or received a telegram
28) hung clothes on an outside line to dry
29) heard of 'horseless carriages' but never seen one
30) used well maintained roads to town, but not paved yet.
31) can read and write in full handwritten cursive script
32) kept accounts in a ledger book by hand
33) had measles, chickenpox and/or mumps
34) taken material to local printer to have printed, with images
35) depended on a hand wound pocket watch to tell time
36) used a mass produced refillable fountain pen

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0-12 Stick to this century PLEASE 13-24 Just might have survived in the 20th century 25-36 Might survive in the 19th century, w/ help . . .

We complain that others don't know how to do anything from our time period. This could be said of all of us if we went back to 19th century California.

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