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seem to tire. Iot even in our en-
liritened and happy land, where the frills
anM flounces and feminine fol'de-rols com-
peiyvomen to be clean only by the sweat of
theH
Ao ih Aojf jrb countries where
women wear garments unenhanced by thr
dressmaker's art do they seem to tire of
rubbing and drying and smoothing their
abbreviated habiliments.
It's man's nature to be clean and
woman's to keep him clean. And so the
old world runs its laundry establishment
unceasingly, whether it be in Trinidad or
'Holland, Venezuela or Mexico.
But the laundries of the planets are run
'in strange and diversified ways. They
don't starch and ruffle collars and ruffle
laces in many places near the antipodes
and nearer hornet
P
ICTUK3E to yourself the world'B great wash
days.
- In America, Holland, Mexico, Venexuela,
Switzerland, Holland, Trinidad, New Zealand
tiler you will find typical examples of clothes-cleaning.
' Supposing you were to take a globe-girdling tour,
and naturally you wouldn't want to be bothered with
trunks and such paraphernalia. Perhaps you'd take
only a suitcase. Now, you'd have to get your clothes
washed. Positively.
Suppose you were In Trinidad, and to your ques-
It' Uons About starched laundering the dusky skinned
4. - women returned vague ana mysurying replies. Bome-
fcow you learn 'tis washday In Trinidad! From the
town the women, In gaudy colored dresses, with bun
dles of gaudy colored clothing In their arms, wander.
And you follow.
Beyond Is a forest, and asphalt lakes lakes steam
Ins; with the hot, pitchy substance, smelling Intoler
ably. Yet the dusky-sklnned, sphinx-eyed women
make their way thence and lo, they begin to wash.
Tes, actually in the asphalt lake. But look closer.
That which sizzles and steams Is not asphaltum, but
water, hot, steaming water. In the bottom of the
lakes la the material of which they make public thor
oughfares In civilized countries; on the surface, water
of the right temperature. And so they rub and scrub
and wash the clothing. I,aundei them starch them?
NOW Jump on the witch s broom of your lmaglna-
0t turn and take a trip to New Zealand. It's washday
there,"
i'i Iiffaany other countries women fret and fume over
beatlnr water, and In the big cities they worry over
i km out. oc bo in iew z,eaiana. pgs
bills. Not bo In New Zealand. Nature, in n
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mign mooa, gives tne women water already heated.
EASY WITH HOT SPRINGS
1 They don't wear pretty clothing there. The women
. 4on't rejoice In laces and ruffles, nor do thev fret over
" pleated and shirred skirts, nor do they bother washing
; : ;nks In gasoline. No. Indeed. Bee them. A row or
Coarse, aarx-compiexionea women, with straggling,
fllsheveled hair. They don't use soap. They Just
throw the clothing Into the boiling pools, the natural
bot springs of the Island, and beat It with stones.
tlin thMr vrlnr ft mtt onY naA i. th. . ..
T '"NU'y- And the week's washing is over.
,v In Venozuela the women are a little more par
' f.r v, tlcular. There they also disdain tubs and washboards,
' Vj' and are content to knead their garments over nature s
i" Btreams.
. f 4 OuUide of the villages of the country are long
.- peels, where women usually engage In the family
Tihing.
Among the natives of Mexico they make It both
mash ana bath day. Some of thi natives are very
- poor, and as expedients arise from necessity perhaps
tha custom of washing the children while they wash
l.f clothing arose from the scantiness of bodily attire.1
' In some early day a family found that Its clothing
"was dirty. What were they to do? Dame Natures
Impulse to Keep clean arose In their crude, untutored
' ' hearts and they desired a wash. And a bath. Whv
not both at once? So that primitive famllv betook
-I Itself to the forest, where In a pool they doffed their
" . ' attire and washed the clothing.
-t go today it Is a familiar sight In Mexico to see
1 ' children bathing; thetnselves in . the same pool or
, stream In which the mothers wash their clothes.
' ' - - la most lands, half-civUftfed or civilised, women
,(fl tha washing. On their backs fall the burden of
the world's wash. , They bend over streams In Mexico
" i and over tubs in . Am.erlc.i . But In one country lo
" , and behold you-ho men actually do the week's wash
Ins;. - Blessed countryijor the women! What houss
wife must not pin Jlve within its golden boun-
fThs country Is ''Morocco fierce and tumultuous
' Morocco Morocco, of terrible brigands and turbaned
t Titi-ira. Of eourse. the men don't do all the washing
By any means, ior. in wouiu menu ior women th
dawning of a feminine-mttlennluin. But they do a
good deal, find they're experts on the job, too.
. Tbey don't uso tubs. However, they're partial to
soap. Picture' them to -yourselves a long row of
gaudily dressed men. in vari -colored turbans, march
Ing to th'rtTr-wtUi thelrwash. They lay ths gar-
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river and smoothed over a stone to dry,
And the washing Is over In Morocco, ,
But, one hears the men remonstrate, they dorfV
have such "washing" In Morocco as In more advanced
countries. Imagine, for Instance, any maq even
Moroccan bandit starching a collar or (Toning a
oleatcd shlrtl it s simply impossible, or course, In
the United States almond-eyed Chinamen wash for
the "Mellle Melllcans." The Chinese laundry is an
institution here. But while some Chinamen do some
kinds of clothing, you can't get all Chinamen t
launder every kind of garment.
So, after all, women are the real mistresses of tha
fine art of laundering. In Holland there's scarcely a
'woman who will not wash some of her clothing.
Housewifely women that they are, they. delight lu tha
work. Even wealthy women, with scores of servants,
go to the kitchen on washday and wash If only a
few handkerchiefs. Toung women, as soon as they
are able o learn, are taught the principles of laun
dering clothes. In Holland women wash in publlo OB
the Zuyder Zee.
Here It Is really refreshing to see the rosy-faced
buxom women! With skirts pinned up, sleeves rolled,
they busily wash along the river, soaping the clothing
and rubbing It until it is creamy with suds. How
tenderly and carefully they handle each garment:
how solicitous they are that every spot vanishes, and
only when it Is spotlessly clean do they pin the gar
ment on the line.
Then as they wash they gossip good-naturedly,
happily. Their laughter rings merrily along the river
ho, ho! for merriment reigns when it's washday on
the Zuyder Zee!
In Lucerne and other cities In Switzerland thers.
are public laundries. Housewives not wishing to
bother washing clothing In ihelr kitchens take their
baskets full of garments thero and wash them.
But It's In Japan that washday has lost its terrors
for women. Washday! Why, they've so little to
wash it's mere child's play. And the soft-skinned
little creatures of women delight In washing tha
dainty trltles with which they clothe themselves ah.
It Is a delight.
First, they have little bedclothlng to wash In
Japan. Very little. But, you say, are not the Jap
anese among the most cleanly people In the world?
And do they not sleep in beds?
Where are the sheets? There are bo sheets. And
the pillow-cases? There are no pillow cases. Tha
Japanese sleep on futons, folded during the day and
kept In closets, and for a pillow they use a tiny
cylinder covered with a small cover of the size of a
pocket handkerchief, which Is discarded as soon as
ft Is dirty. How about towels, napkins, handker
chiefs? They are of paper, Nelthen tablecloths nor
napkins are used. Then, you say, what's the use of
washday? Ah, don't forget the bright beflowered ,
kimonos, the pretty obis, or Bashes, .the tabl, or very
short stocking, and ' the fragile and, ethereal under- '
garments that remind one of sylphs rather than.svoin
en of flesh and blood. So. after all, washday Is a
necessity even In the fragrant lanJ of the cherry
blossoms. But It's not conspicuous In the back
.yards those wonderful miniature par)cs you may sea
the glowing robes and fleecy fancies; lying on bushes
or hung on pieces of twine.
-, Washday in Japan! ' Washday, without suds and
-steaming boilers! Is it not beautiful, to contemplate?
It has been said that clothing is the urse of civiliza
tion, that for the complexities of attire the world o
washing-women fume and sweat ap, so needlessly.
But In Japan land of magic, magic of flowers ana
women's eyes the little women hf-Ve become necro
mancers of the art of washing. And they rnaka
washday a poem pretty, free of tubs, steam and the
rubbing of boards, and rather a day full of soft sug
gestions of ethereal undergarment and fleecy fancies;
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