The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-20

to bar out toe invasion OF the Celes-
tisls. But how long Frsnce and
China may continue fighting under
masks no one can predict. NADIA
gascar, where the French are seem-
ingiy blocked "a her than the Hovas,
the cry lie to sitzs the whole Island,
and ignore the foreigner. In me
interim it is urged to at once occupy
the port OF Ooock. merely as q coal
log ststion-synonymous with protec-
.orate-and while thus, making
France independent OF Alden. Egg
land could be checked on the eastern
side OF Africa. Jealousy OF Eagland
10 the order of the day-if it was ever
otherwise. M de Lesseps has thus
NJ chance of obtaining hi- Suez
shareholders to cleo. ssveu John
Bulls On his executive council, ard
people ask. will the British shippers
accept the portion OF the contract
voted, with a respectable part Of
Hamlet left out OF the play.
The laundresses duly honored mid
lent day; it is their only holiday in
the year, as good Friday is that Tor
the butchers. People endeav1r 10
have all THAR linen, Ladies especially,
back before the carnival, as it Is popu-
larry believed the washerwomen wear
it-ior that only. However, suffer-
snce is the badge OF all their tribe.
George Sand said. that thanks to the
bad washing in Paris. she and her
friends have to renew their linen FIVE
times In the year. The bad washing
is simply the employment OF chemi-
Gals, tina. Berzslius or Bsrthollet dis
covered. There was a time when
buttons of shirts only disappeared in
the washing; it is now the material it
self that become. burned by degrees
and beautifully lees 1t is not OBJ
lectlonsble to make linen white, but
ladies havs reason to complain to see
their lilac robes retlrned u them as
red as the setting sun. Perhaps We
may have in self defence to return TO
the times of Homer, when the Greeks
washed their linen by trampling on
it in a stream, as the institution il
observed in the north of Scotland.
The Egyptians and Hebrews en-
ployei kind OF nitre, or a species Of
soap plant. The Romans employed
purified human urine, and Pliny
describes the various systems for &C.
cumulating it. The demand tor this
very peculiar soft soap was such, that
the Emperor Vespssian imposed a
tax upon it. In Io land, such is still
employed, plus ashes; the latter when
from fern. are emplo yed in many
countries.
The Romans also employed gypsum
and chalk, and by the law of Metella.
sulphur iumigations. A ksline solu-
tons were pstronized in France from
the fifteenth century, when linen It's
sues became fashionable. 1t was
under the reign of Charles VI, that
an cutlery vas raised against the
Queen Isabella, on account OF her
in having two linen
chemises." There are at present
many substitutes for soap, the chief
being. ammonial salts solutions;
Indian chestnut meal. rye -four, 20
.ato and wheat fecula. boiled po-
.atoes, gelstine and gum. Many en-
p'oy netles With slKalies to produce a
more delicate blue.
In Paris the laundries are as plenti-
ful as the bakeries and dram shops.
The public lsundries, in special e.
as well as in the bsrges
on the Seine afford accommodation
for IL, 600 women. Then the max
ing up represents quite an army,
and where men largely figure as
ironers; similarly as we
have the men-house-maids. Such a
class OF subjects naturally have their
queens the fair sex only being elected
10 royal power as q protest perhaps
against the Salique law. Thei.
Maiesties are generally buxom and
pretty. The poet Dufresny MARI. d
such q queen. accepting the union as
. receipt ia full for his bill. Pope
5exsus the Fifth was OF very humble
origin. aud when elected to the tiara,
he brought his sister. who Was .
laundress, to Rome. and lodged her
IN palace, for by her brothers. ele-
Vation, she became Q princess by
night. Mex. morning the Romans
covered the statue OF Pasquins with 9
chemise. Marfori demanded the
,ause OF such negligence, and the re-
ply was chalked Cd the statue: ''Be-
,ause mylwssherwomsn has become
princess. The role played by a
laundry maid 10 save the chaste wife |
VI Sir Eustsce de Vessy. from being |
'educed by King John. is we'll |
,nown, and one OF the rsles exaoted I
rom the Crusaders was, that they
would observe purity of life towards
be washerwomen who followed the
Irmy. In France. no woman is
allowed inside a barracks, and the
oldiers have to do their own wash.
ng. In the time of Elizabeth, no
aundress was psrmitte / to enter the
'recincts OF the Inns of Court.
Campi, who has been condemned
desth, bu. fsted net to die, for
an old lawyer last August,
7ill go down in the Newgate calendar
8 celebrated" criminal. Save to
lis lawyer his identity cannot be es-