Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-06-10
LABOR SAVING DEVICE
Scheme to Aid the Women Work
erS on Farms.
HOW A LAUNDRY WOULD HELP
Modern Diaries, For instance, Require
Sanitary Washing of Workers Suits.
How One Laundry Could Be Used by
a Number of Families.

Sanitary Washing of Workers Suits,
How One Laundry Could Be Used by
a Number of Families.
The modern clean, convenient and
hygienic dairy barn means great deal
of additional work for the farmers
wife ana her helpers. for suits must
be washed. and there is a general in-
crease IN laundry and similar work
1t is only just that these added bur-
lens should be offset by more couven-
ienees and labor saving devices. In
general II IS not true that the farm
home has kept pace with the rest of
the farm in the adoption of farm meth
DDS of labor saving devices and other
convenienceS
\ widely known dairy commissioner
who had given the matter considerable
thought suggested that a laundry such
as he had in mind could be used by
number Of families in neighborhood
on the payment Of "a small fee Suco
IDEAS of cooperation applied to rural
life are interesting as well rs valuable
and an indication of Il means by which
the farm housewives labors may be
lessened in a number OF ways. y Co
operative bakery or laundry seems as
practical as the cooperative creamery
which is now so common in the middle
west
/ The suggestion is as follows:
| \ laundry provided with stationary
washtubs, with washer ana wringer
/ for power use. is an innovation. But
why should not the women Of the
farm be provided with modern appi-
ances? The farmer no longer reaps
with a sickle or even with cradle
He rides his plow and often his culti-
vator. He rides his grain drill. corn
| planter and corn cultivator. He rides
his grain harvester and his corn har-
vester. He loads his hay by machin-
/ cry and pitches it into the barn by
horsepower. The time is come when
it is positively inhuman to ask women
/ to toll without water or machine pow
er in the house. The same water,
steam and sewage system that must
be present for the dairy will take care
Of the laundry. The same power used
for grinding feed and separating milk
or pumping water and saving wood
viii turn the washer and wringer
Stationary tubs of three compart-
ments, power washer, wringer, piping
and connections and drying room will
cost in the neighborhood of S14O, and
the interest on this amount is $3.50;
the deterioration. assuming that they
will have to be replaced in fifteen
:
Of $19.15. to be correct, or. say, $40
even money.
That is 80 cents a week. to which
add 10 cents u week for gasoline used
by the engine. If the farmer were
compelled TO kill and dress two hogs
every week throughout the year he
would not hesitate to spend 80 cents
a week for machines which would save
so much labor and enable him to do
lroner costing about $50 could be add
ed if he took Il notion To be liberal
in the matter
4 drying room G by - feet between
the dairy room and She laundry room,
provided with steam pipes for heat
Ing, Will not cost a great deal and In
Sures quick, clean and easy drying of
clothes in any kind Of weather and
will save "her" a good many trips out
In inclement weather. power laun-
dry like this may be rented TO neigh
bors for. say. so cents a day they to
come to the place and do the work and
clean up the plant after they are
through. - Washington Cor Kansas
City Star
Taken Unawares.
Sir William Grantham was engaged
as a political speaker in the days be.
] fore he took his place on the bench
and when he was plain Mr. Grantham.
On one occasion, while he was deliver
ing an address, man got up in the
audience and shouted out eXcitcdly,
ITS lie" Thanks" said the future
! judge. IT'S lie"' shouted the ex-
! cited one again. You're Il gentleman,
said Mr. Grantham sarcaStically. IT'S
Il lie" burst out his opponent again,
carried away by his wrath, but the
/ general laughter which arose at his
answer recalled him to himself again,
and he sat down diScomttted.-Lond