HOW OUR NEW ALLY WASHES.
The Japanese rip their garments apart for every washing and they iron their clothes by spreading them on a flat board and leaning this up against the house to dry. The sun takes the wrinkles out of the clothes which thus acquire quite a lustre. The Japanese woman does her washing out of doors in a washtub not more than 6in. high. The hardest-worked washerwomen in the world are the Coreans. They have to wash about a dozen dresses at a time for their husbands and i they have plenty to do. The washI ing is usually done in cold water and ! often in running streams. The j clothes arc pounded with paddles ! until they shine like a white shirt j front fresh from the laundry,
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Lake County Press, Issue 1065, 21 May 1903, Page 3
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