In hard times, what does one use for TP? Mormon Pioneers knew.

Our history class today is a little forbidden, especially during LDS General Conference, but the history has to be told to serve a need for the future. I once lived in China, where they built a type of "Outhouse" to use. Locals visited that "throne" built on a hill, and told others they were gong to go talk to "Tsi-Ku Niang" as she was a Chinese goddess who could tell your future. In early Mormonville, we just said "we are going to water the horses". I lived in Viet Nam, where you sat over a pool of rice water, and then that eventually became a rice paddy. In England, I learned about "John Crapper", who took credit for inventing the flushable "John", while others maintain he only invented the "ball cock" for it. I sat on one, then pulled the chain and rain water flushed it down, from a holding tank above the "Shack House". High class folks called it a "PC" or Public Convenience. In Australia they call it the "Dunny" according to my brother Gary. Because of the "herd mentality" used in todays world, we suggest some alternatives to "TP" as we used in our Outhouses as a kid. Our farming neighbor had a "two holer", with a variety of magazines available to use. If you take a drink of water then spray the pages, it softens the touch.....or so Buster McPherson told me. The "Lone Stranger" sitting in the Jones Privy decided he still wants Charmin and not the Sagebrush nearby, even though it would make him smell good! When the hole gets filled, you then just dig another hold and move it. This kids great-great-great grandparents used washable rags while traveling with the Martin Handcart Company.