. Eastern fruit. Fruit-culture; Farm life; Country life. 'n':RM FRIUT AND THK GREAT EAST The Rural Woman and Her Problems Woman's Real Needs, Interests and Viewpoints. A Department Designed to be Truly and Really Helpful. Edited by MRS. JEAN KANE FOULKE THE LAUNDRY PROBLEM. Of all the problems tliat beset the busy housewife on a farm ; the most diflicult is the iinibKin of the weekly wash. How to "lo it best and easiest.âat least cost in money and time and least wear and tear on her already overtaxed strengthâHow to RCt the washing over without mak- ing it a vtritalile &quo
. Eastern fruit. Fruit-culture; Farm life; Country life. 'n':RM FRIUT AND THK GREAT EAST The Rural Woman and Her Problems Woman's Real Needs, Interests and Viewpoints. A Department Designed to be Truly and Really Helpful. Edited by MRS. JEAN KANE FOULKE THE LAUNDRY PROBLEM. Of all the problems tliat beset the busy housewife on a farm ; the most diflicult is the iinibKin of the weekly wash. How to "lo it best and easiest.âat least cost in money and time and least wear and tear on her already overtaxed strengthâHow to RCt the washing over without mak- ing it a vtritalile "blue Monday" fi«r lurM-h" and lior luiuseliold arc some of luT (iHruulties. It is a difficult mat- ter to adjust even in a town house wluic hot and etdd water abound and stationary tubs are not regarded as luxuries but as part of a house. How impossible then does the prob- lem appear f«»r the rural woman who seltlom has even "running" water in her house, having usually to pump it from a well under the shed or porch, or possibly to dip if from a spring and carry it, in cither case, in buckets to the kitchen stove to heat. Again it must be lifted and carried to the tubs, (which must in their turn be emptied of the dirty water; fdled and put away) and the dirty water is fmally thrown into the i)tnnp drain or off the edge of the porch t»^ make the door yard a "sink of ; filth and mud where it will gradually seep back into the well thus helping to pollute the household water supply! To be sure washday is a necessity, but it need not be the bugbear and home destroyer that it is at present. The first essential however toward over- coming its discomforts is to get water running into the houseâf^r it is a- essential to ease in washing as it is to doing it thoroughly and well that there should be plenty of water for voaking. washing, rinsing and h<>cs her own wa-li- ing" is incalculable. Of course, where it is pos
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