Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-02

"Pub-a-dub-dub is the litany OF
the tub. supplanted in part by the
autiphony of washing IN
the modern American home. In
Italv and Sardinia o may greet
your linen being washed In puDiic
frouchs along the streets. and IN
ormaudy your clothes are dippeu
in howing streams, placed on rocks,
and pounded with paddles until o
have visions of your little a pus-
tons floating back to the moliuskS
Whence fhey came" says a bulletin
nf the National Geographic Society
from its Washington, d. c., mead
quarters.
"The round little Dutch woman's
wash-tub is to be found almost any
where you turn. Along the canais,
Mt the water troughs and boat land
ings the roly-poly, pink
mother washes the pink ana pIue
| cottons of her Adolf and whitening
in these stationary dish-pans ana
wash-tubs of hers.
.sBhIe Monday" Oncc a year
"There is only n blue Monoay
| a year in Abyssinia, n tnen the
women don't do the work. Both the
| women and men wear O robe Oh
| cotton wrapped about them. the Tor
| ner over q sort of night-goWn n
the latter over loose knee-trouSers.
| on the Eve of st. John the men do
| the small family wash for the year.
| They dig a hole in the ground by
the side of a stream n spread n
| niece of leather over the bottom or
Fit. They put the clothes in, sprinkle
them with a powder MADE from d
fruit resembling the Corinthlan
grape, and fill the hole with water
Then they tread back n forth up
on the clothes for an hour or So
working up a white foam which h
powder has generated. The wet
garments. which are said to be as
white as snow, ire rinsed IN II
fl wing stream.
I'm some remote parts o. SWltZer-
land wash-day but twice q
year. The Alpine peasant wcman Is
too busy working the crops ana
tending the cattle in the summer 70
do the washing, and in the winter
it is too cold, so h does 1t IN puiN
in the spring and fall. she taxes
her turn for several days among the
other women of the neighDorhoou
at the community tub, which is NIL
ed with water piped down from a
glacier. Nearby big copper kettles
are sizzling over fires built on the
ground in order that she may have
hot water to help loosen the dirt
which, in most cases, is thoroughly
ground into the garments. They do
not rub the clothes but, after soap
ing. throw them against an inclined
board.
Laundry a Semi-annual Event
"In parts of Germany the same
system is practiced. Long lines CT
boats may be seen coming down
the streams looking for a suitable
spot where the semi-yearly accumu-
lation of soiled clothes may be made
wearable again. There is usually at
the top of the Houses of these peo-
pie an aired loft in which the cloth
es are stored pending the coming of
wash-day and where lines are hung
to dry them when the deed has been
done.
AT intervals along the banks OF
rivers and streams in France n
may see the peasant women washing
their clothes on stones, and beating
them with wooden paddles. In Paris
along the Seine there are h 'ba-
teaux lavoirs' or large covered boats
where the washerwomen go to do
their work. In the city streets
there are everywhere the lavoirs
publiques' which are private estab-
lishments where, for a small sum-.
housewives can use the tubs. the hot
water, the wringer, and the drying
room. A veritable army of washer
women camps out along the River
Paillon at Nice, and having learned
that the visitors to the resort re-
quire that their clothes be white,
use strong soaps and acids, and
pound them with stones.
He Who Runs May See
Italy seems to have it's washing
out everywhere. Intimate garments
greet the visitor on the roadways