By the way she talked this event > occurred when she was a teenager. If someone was sick, her mother had a > large cast-iron pot in the yard to boil water and wash the clothes. > > from home. If there was clothing to be ironed and there wasn't enough time > to do it, the wet clothing was rolled up, and placed in a spring box or milk > box in the creek.
My earliest real job (like not delivering papers) was in an industrial laundry. We rarely started a load late afternoon to avoid having wet clothing overnight - - we would at most load machines and leave them dry for a quick start the next day. If a load was started late, it would be washed and spun but left in the spin drier (a thing about the size of a Volkswagon) with the lid sealed for what looks like a similar reason to keeping washing in the spring box. Shows how the technology changes, not the action. I remember from when I was a kid (not THAT long ago) we had a "copper", a copper tub in an iron frame for boiling clothes. I vaguley remember it being used to boil jeans. I wish I had one now instead of the welded galvanised iron rubbish bin (trash can) I lug up onto my stove for large dye jobs. I do have one of the old stove-top irons, it makes a great doorstop; and a bronze iron stand which is an ornate frame the size of a sheet of writing paper -- I use for (you guessed it) my ironing, -C. ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
