Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-09-20

and can look away at the blue delecta.
BILE hills and Of silver rivers beyond the
margin of the tub. / don't believe in
doing work in shabby holes and corner,
or in planting the tub in a dingy shed.
90 out of doors, and get the aid and
stimulus Of the sunshine, not directly Oh
but around you.
Each country has its habits of doing
the washing. Canadian women have a
heavy wooden paddle, and beat the
clothes instead Of rubbing tn EN-. This
they call battening the clothes, and il is
an effectual way of getting them. clean.
The New York farmers wife pounds her
washing out in the time honored pound.
ing barrel; at least she does when she
hasen't machine. New England house
wives use washboards but rub with their
hands great deal, which is hardly fair
to their knuckles. Ma yland housekeep-
! ers, or their colored servants for them
call the sun to assist III curious wav.
They wet the clothes, rub soap plenti-
fully on the soiled places, and spread
them dripping in the field, where the
hottest sun reaches them. This an
swers instead of rubbing and boiling
for in hour or two the things are taken
up, washed out of cold water and rims
ed without any canning even the boi
ing which is the most disagreeable part
Of rubbing.
Iown to speak from experience about
washing ma ters, for last summer didn't
find myself in one OF the lovliest towns
of New England, favorite resort of
city visitors, and not washerwoman
to be had Tor love or money! Not a
1ankee girl would do more than her
own Washing, though she would work in
shoe factory twelve hours day for
es than she could make by laundry
VIZ. Some of the boarders sen the r
rutied skirts and sh rts home " New
Bedtold d, hundred miles by rail, every
week TO have~them washed. But the
wife Of the doctor of divinity-he was
in the Boston Legislature, toO-and Mr..
Lang's pupil who played Beethoven for
us and the second cousin of Beacon st.
blue blood-we did our own va hing
on the hill side, and great fun it was
There were two old women who some.
times did washing as favor and ch1rg-
ed more than New York prices for it,
out they wouldn't ''go round" among
five hundred people who wanted them.
And this is the state of things in more
than one village of intellectual New Eng
land.
Since the Mary AIMS and Abby James
and Eliza Marias are all educated and
gone to teaching, we will have to learn
to do our own washing once in way.
Small harm will i be, for our o1 er-
wrought nerves cry out 1or physical ex-
ercise to balan aud relieve the pressure
of mind. With washing machines and
Wrlngers. there is no more work in q
family washing than any woman ought
to be able to do. Whether she ought
to do it is another question. But the
exercise for arms and muscles of the
chest is what women must have--what
they suffer for unawares. So if any
woman finds herself obliged to do her
own washing let her comfort herself
that she is not deteriorating by it. She
has good recommendation for her work.
Mrs. Whitney has given laundry work
her recognition by letting her lady-like
Holabird girls go into the basement to
do it, and Jean Ingelo shows her thor,
ough gentility by allowing one of hei
heroines to follow the example of hei
grandmother, who used to ''do up'' theil
linens and muslins in the shade of trees
Oh the lawn, while ruffled and perfumed
gallants sat on the other. side of the
ironing table and gossipped the after
noon away. Now isuppose they sit in
the awingrooms and talk coleoptera
and vibriones and Professor Tyndall's
last lecture, and she has spinal irritation
and he has nervous disease of the heart
Other times, other manners.