Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-10-08
1T IS UP TO YOU, NOW.

l the question of cooperative laundry for
Cedar City, which matter was understood to be in
the hands of the Home Economics Club of the B.
A. c. From the report that is published else
where in this issue of The Record by the commit
tee having the project in charge it will appear
plain that the ladies have gone as far as they can
in this matter, and are certainly entitled to vote
of thanks for the very complete and comprehen-
sive information they have collected together from
various sources. We move the adoption of the
report of the committee the acceptance of the
very generous offer made by the city and members
of the Commercial club of free site for the laun-
dry, and we propose that every head of family
owning his own home assess himself with not less
than $25 worth of the stock of the company, to be
paid in needed and called for, and that we send
the order forward for the machinery and equip
ment as early as possible, and then work to have
the building ready for its installation by the time
it arrives from Chicago.
1t is in keeping with the cooperative plan and
in the best interests of all concerned that the SUBJ
scriptions be kept comparatively small, as it will
be the aim, as we understand it, to make the fees
for Laundering reasonable as possible and meet
the operating expenses, running the laundry in
the interests of the stockholders in the company
This being the case, the ladies may enter our sub
scription to the stock in this amount. If rs heads
of families feel the same way about it, the laundry
is a sure go right now. All those who are in favor
may signify their willingness to join in the under
taking to Mrs K. H. Ryan, who is chairman of the
laundry committee.
Just close your eyes for a moment and draw
mental picture of your faithful help-meet on
washday-the most dreaded day of the week OF
toll and drudgery. We will represent in the pic
ture that there are five or six small members Of
the family and when the little mother has col
lected a full change of under garments, hosiery
several aprons or slips for the baby and little
girls likewise an allowance of shirts for the boys
with few pairs of overalls thrown in, the weeks
accumulation of bed linen, table linen, towels, anc
the under and outer garments for adults-by the
time it is all gathered together where is the WON
an that can contemplate it on the morning of wash
day without a quaking of the heart, and deep
drawn sigh.
1t makes us tired to even think of it, so we will
drop the curtain on the scene and draw it again
down at the Office, where the impatient husband
his dinner hour gone by, is growing cross anG
peevsh, as he waits momentarily for the telephone
summons to report for his midday meal. Finally
when your stock of patience has become com
pletely exhausted and you are feeling just like 6
bear in the spring time, you receive the long de-
of an appetizing nature served, but all the evil
dences of washday are about you, you suppress
your anger and indignation at being thus treated
manage to swallow enough of the "catch-as-catch
cam viands to check the uncomfortable gnawine
in the region of your stomach, and after empty
ing the washing machine, tub or two, providing
a fresh supply of wood you are glad to hurry back
to your business and leave the finishing to the
tired little wife. At evening time you return home
to find her completely exhausted, and hardly able
to keep up until the evening meal is prepared
Under these conditions, you watch her grow war
and pale, wrinkles seam her once fair, round face
and she becomes a faded flower-not all as re
suit of washday, but with this as one of the most
potent factors in producing the result.
Do we as men, as farmers, for instance show
the same consideration for the women in then
work that we do for ourselves? If we, the lords
of creation, were not more considerable of our
selves than of our wives, we would be cutting
our hay and grain with perhaps nothing better
than scythe or cradle; we would be threshine
our grain with fail for the threshing machine
bears just about the same relationship to the
threshing of your grain that the laundry does tC
the cleansing of your clothes, the only difference
being that the threshing has to be done only once
a year, while washing has to be done every week
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