Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-13
semi-AnnuaI Wasbjng nav

For drying clothes and Springs work" the
two functions usually applied to March, in Ger
many, the present month has furnished first-rate
weather. rejoicing the hearts of all housewives
and farmers. What the opening of the reich
stag is to the emperor, is the semi-annual wash
ing day to the mistress Of Germany family
March is a breezy month the world over, and SO
is one of the periods selected Tor the solemniza-
ton of the saponaceous rites of the wash-tub
and pounding-barrel An express wagon backs
up to the door, takes in birch-basket of "dirty
eloes" large enough to hold a dozen Falstaffs
and drives off to some secret haunt of the
nymphs of the soap-bubble, whence after many
days it returns, an ark of fine linen. Call in
our American friends and we will now show
them how it is that we live six months without
washlng-dsy. The house-frau proudly dis
plays her wardrobe, which, if il it not as elegant
az as blanche Buffers is certainly as extensive.
W In au imperial gesture she points out the five
auu-tweniy dozen Of napkins, the fourteen
uoHeii Oh handkerchiefs, the thirty chemises.
the ditto night ditto IAN American iody
is reported TO have said that tbayy
were exactly half as long as the dom,
ocratic fashion), the rs shirts for the herr ftod
he must have some new ones, the 100 pairs of
women's hose, etc. etc. You see family econc
my mere Is based on different plan from what
1t is in America Here a bride, even of the
middling order, considers herself not "ready 10
be married" unless she has, according to n
pIover0, "a bushel of stockings" and linen
enough to run the family half year without
washing. AS for dresses and outside TRAININGS
she is not so extravagant, and as to crockery
and furniture, she and her imam" begin with
stock and quality that would be considered
decidedly shabby in rural New Englapd.-not
only begin So but continue so, perhaps, ali their
lives, never attaining the luxury Of a stuffed
eShalr, or OF carpet big enough for kitten to
ne on, much less to cover the whole ROOM But
eteh with so full a store of linen the towels and
atncles OF every day use are kept in service
sense ie longer than is pleasant TO the delicate
for wasb, ene American housewife, and as
luaglne the imperial scorn with ,,hioT'
| S q lllsu "asher'woman would bnrI hacL tiIa
OSneuit' put, as was said hefora - -
i hau nuS weather. hrst this year nsrt;c,,inrI
Happy tihug IN germany, for vben ,LIe y
ofy NOT we'll Alas" signs the VITO We oiotneS
| 10 not true. Ill we had had foul woe. 10y i nun
unpleasant It would have been for tba d now
princess with her great washing for Ave oh SI9Wn
ana several servants, and how unpleasant gu gu
the crown prince, 100, when he came home FROM
| the wars 70 have been met with the refro;a
said to be familiar to him, "Alas, mejn mann =
NIGHT treu." Which, am now bound n sat ~
was not the case at all, for, when the hero ala
come, bis I'VE children and their mother Stood
even in the doorway of the palace, and then and
there was no end Of 6lial hugging and kissing
all Berlin looking on and yelling cheers and
"Wacht am Rhein" like mad. Afterward. tbeiI
highnesses stood inside at window. each with
a child in arms, the rest of the family sproutino
up from the window sill. This picture, you NAV
say, Is idylhc; but II is also official told In All
the papers Of the city In precisely the same
words, and, dare say, was even cabled to the
experimentation. Springfield Republican.