The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-04-04

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washerwOman rolls up her sleeves
and dev0tes herself very earnestly
to her bag of soiled clothes. Aud
now the scene is lively enough,
assure you, v bile the busy workers
are sorting the clothes rapidly and
getting them ready for the hard
tussle with the wash board which
they will soon have to undergo.
Every part of laundry work gets
its share OF attention in this nseful
play-tor the girls believe to
heat the water and to boil, rinse
and blue the clothes-but the pret.
tiest sight it affords, l think, is the
two rows of sturdy little bare arms,
rubbing the clothes up and down,
for dear life, over the little wash.
boards, and keeping time to the
music of this lively song, while the
merry voices sing it, to the tune of
Barberry Bush:"
"This is the way we wash Onr clothes,
Wash our clothes, wash our clothes.
This il the way we wash our clothes,
So early Monday morning"
I You would laugh, too, to see the
y,eef little garments, which are of
s uoIS SIZE, dangling from the
o,oiinte.,ine i taine in true wash-dsy style,
anu ias.e'ed to it by the funniest
OF Daoy cloN,es-pins, each not over
dnwn do ,ntm trom ath tho i half long. Taken
fingers, the clothes ava snnnosed ro
be ready for sprihklins,and
"This is the way we sprinkle os4 .,.,,o.
Sprinkle our clothes, sprinkle our Ssshao !,
sing the little washerwomen, p.
tending to sprinkle; then follows
"This is the way we iron our clothes,"
and the fourth lesson ends with the
proper motions for ironing.
Scrubbing follows washing of
course, and the little workers, with
their three-lnch-lOng scrubbing.
brushes polish the table in trout of
them while they sing with spirit;
Scrubbing
At break of day
Te make our homes look neatlyj
For good hard scrub is the very best way
To make all smell 80 sweetly.
CHORUS:
Then scrub away in your very best way
With face so bright and cheerful;
For a cheory face meets much more grace
Than one that's always fearful"
AS Rev. DR.. Bellows says, in
writing of Miss HuntingtOn's plan:
"What idea of "A more valuable and
urgent character has lately come
into any woman's head, or any
mans, than tho idea that girls,
poor or rich, could be taught, in
great classes, and by the hundred,
all the methods ofsetting the fami-
ly table, of serving the food, OF
cleaning knives and forks, of wash
ing dishes and clothes, of sweeping
rooms and busting closets and cell
ings-how to handle kuife and fork,
broom and duster; how and in what |
order to take hold of all forms OF |
household work? =? There is a best |
way of doing these things, and only |
trained and experienced house.
keepers, by the expensively train.
ed servants, have hitherto been |
able to practice it. Most domestics |
have proved incapable of learning
it, because they began too late.'
But Miss Huntington takes these |
little girls in time. Thefe is scarce.
ly q thing in the work Of an ordi-
nary ouse-servant that they do
not learn something about. Per
haps there was never any one thing
that will do so much TO help the
very poor of New York as this one
happy thought will do. 1t helps
the girls themselves to better lives,
does good to all with whom they
live aud associate, influences the
parents and homes, aud will, in the |
end, affect the big city itself,