A Washing Machine for Boys.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 6384, 27 November 1890, Page 3

A Washing Machine for Boys.

A writer in a contemporary says:—The idea of a washing.raachiae in connection with laundry work is not exactly original, but as applied to the cleansing of small boys and girls it is somewhat novel, and is carried out in the London Board schools in the following manner“ The victim stands upright in a sort of sentry-box, and has three minutes’ thorough soaping j then suddenly the world becomes a wild, weary waste of warm water, and from sides and top the purifying liquid pours in a gentle penetrating shower,” What a boon to tired mothers and school inarms generally, and what an excellent punishment for offending youngsters. Given a refractory or troublesome child, it is nolooger necessary to excite or fatigue yourself with the administration of corporal punishment. Put him in the washing machine, and if the first application does not reduce him to abject obedience, try a second ; but it is my opinion (remembering my own youthful horror of soap and water) that one application will be enough, and that on ordinary occasions the threat alone will suffice. I wonder how the soap is pat on in the sentry-box j perhaps by a number of small revolving brashes as in a knifooleaning machine, from whose pursuing attentions it is of course impossible to ♦icapo.”