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<p>[QUOTE="Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 255763, member: 23"]The word commode does mean toilet and the reason these are called commodes is that this is where you would store the chamber pot during the day. I have an oak one that has been in the family since before I was around because my mother used it. It probably would be locked to keep kids from getting into the dirty chamber pot - I mean, it got emptied in the morning, but not washed out much. (said the person who didn't have indoor plumbing until she was ten.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 255763, member: 23"]The word commode does mean toilet and the reason these are called commodes is that this is where you would store the chamber pot during the day. I have an oak one that has been in the family since before I was around because my mother used it. It probably would be locked to keep kids from getting into the dirty chamber pot - I mean, it got emptied in the morning, but not washed out much. (said the person who didn't have indoor plumbing until she was ten.)[/QUOTE]
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