The Washington herald., 1913-07-27
CONSERVATION REIGNS
THROUGH LAUNDRESSES
Mrs. Eskey Tells Neishbors Her Need
Of q Washwonan, and Has -Four
Of Them to Contend Against.
WAS FORCED INTO HOTEL LIFE

The tyranny of the lower classes is
cert'ny awful" said Mrs. Eskey when 1
tcame in the other day to borrow an extra
table for my Round Daughters whist.
1T cert'ny is" / sympathized. Il al
ways knew Mary was goin' to turn on
you." said.
1t amt Mary" says Mrs. Eskey. Its
,laundresses."
my dentists bill was outrageous, and
John says. Minnie. why don't you have
the laundry done in the house like you
used to. Minnie?' and figured 1t out and
1t was considerable I'd save. though /
have no end rough dry as 1t is. And So
started out that very day after John had
gone down to get that woman Mrs. Ham,
ilton has to do her washing: she says
she's elegant. and never wants to put
lye in the clothes. and not like the one
she had before who said 1t made her
nervous to iron the corners. Where
was L?
Yes. I'd been putin of sendin' the
laundry, and there was three weeks. and
| so i though that would be a good time
to start some one in. and SO 1 was goin'
out. and who should / meet but Anne
Speyer. who prides herself on bein' help
full. and she says. Mrs Eskey. 1 got just
in-law's.
Il told her distinctly that I wanted Mrs
Hamilton's woman. and she said that she
heard Mrs Hamilton's woman had ugly
streaks. and when she felt that way she
starched the stockings. but I bet Anne
Speyer just made that up, SO would take
her woman-she does hate to lose a
chance to be helpful.
''She said her sister-in-law's woman's
n Anna VI M u-ax he
said it-like Door Flinger-sounded more
vicious to me than starching stockings.
and told her distinctly I didn't want
her.
We'll, Mrs. Hamilton said her woman
came to her on Thursdays. and that was
the day I wanted. and wouldn't I take
another day. but said no. because I hate
the middle of the week SO. and would Just
as soon waste it having wash day. and
so / went right down and put an adver-
tisement in the papers.
"A woman answered right away. Built
like a gunboat, she was. but I don't like
puny ones. and SO I told her to come
next week. and I fixed the clothes in the
tub Wednesday night, and Thursday
morning she came before we were up. and
said to John, That's the sun our labor
in class's made of-sturdy and strong
and right on time.' and John and fig
But while We were sitting at break
fast I heard a terrible hullabaloo. and
I went down the laundry stairs. and there
was a little grasshopper of a woman with
plume four feet long on her hat, sayin'
to the gunboat that she was engaged to
do that washin' and she was goin' to do
il.
Who are your asked from the laun-
dry stairs.
That woman Just hung up her hat on
a nail and began to take OF her hair and
unroll her work dress out Of a package.
Mrs. Dorflinger-Miss Speyer said you
expected me-" says she, and looks dag
gers at the Gunboat
I'm engaged to do the wash and I've
give up the day and I'm here to do It."
says she.
Two Of them could have managed"
said Mrs. Eskey refiectively, but three!
1 was just recoverin' my breath to say
something about that helpful Anne Spey-
er when in marches a woman through |
the laundry door and says she's sent by |
Mrs. Hamilton. and Mrs. Hamilton said |
afterward she'd tried to get me on the |
but couldn't, and she had de- |
cided to change to Tuesdays. and SO sire |
just sent the woman around, and there |
they were. all three. and they began to |
jabber and holler, and that Door Flinger |
nerves weren't good that morning. any
way. and I couldn't make myself heard.
and finally I just backed up the sairs |
to let them fight 1t out-didn't dare turn |
because the Gunboat had hold of |
the washboard and looked as IL she'd |
whack me one with II, and they all said |
I'd have to pay all Of them, and when |
got upstairs just cried, and John said,
Ny goodness, Minnie
John went down and paid them all, and
sent them all away, he was so mad, and
after / got through cryin' I went down
and there wasn't a soul there, and all
that four weeks wash sittin' in the
tubs, and I had to do 1t all myself, and
when John came home was lynn down
was SO used up. and he hung II out,
and then he said. Never mind, Minnie,
but that's what you get for economixin'
and havin' anything to do with individI
Of the tyrannical working class
md he says that we'll close up the house
md go down to the Imperial for over
Sunday SOS I won't have to think Of
T just GOT EIeand Gates. wedding an
and I wired her right away
md told her whatever she did to send
Ter laundry out ! think advice is as good
! wedding present as any, don't you?"
Biologists have estimated. that the !
great German deposits Of potash salts
the only important ones in tire
world, will last at the present rate of