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You stroll out to pluck a Sweet William in the park and lo! bandits attack you you are ambulanced to the hospital you marry your nurse; are divorced get squeezed while short on U. P. S. and D. O. W. N. S. stand in the bread line marry an heiress, take out your laundry and pay your club dues seemingly all in the wink of an eye.
It stood between Trennery's and Candlemas' Emporium, and it was even more interesting than the candy store. It had a red sign above the door with white letters which read: "Hop Sing Laundry." In the windows were parcels of shirts, tied with white string, with little slips of paper under the string.
The water used to bath at least a thousand men a day, as well as the wash water from the laundry attached to the bath house, was collected and treated with acid to remove the soap; the scum formed carried to the top all of the dirt, which was then filtered off by means of sacking, cinders, and sand.
The opinion of the National Supreme Court, which practically confirmed the passed New York laundry laws and made future laws for fair regulation for the women workers seem practicable, will be given after the account of women's work in laundries in New York.
The rooms are scrupulously clean; and the hospital sterilising chamber serves to disinfect the clothes, which, after being washed and labelled, are stored in a wardrobe and handed back to the owners when they leave the hospital. The prisoners have no trouble over them. A large supply of things for the patients is kept in the laundry. Clothing.
He proceeded two steps down the companion; then hurled this parting shot at the offending mate: "You oughter be 'ead of a laundry where the 'andle of the mangle turns a pianer-horgan as well work and play!" he concluded scornfully, as he disappeared from the musician's sight below. The mate whistled softly; then he stopped the offending instrument and conveyed it below.
That was a awful beatin'. An' Mr. Moody only a quiet little man that wouldn't harm a fly. Well, he won't find Billy Roberts a sissy by a long shot." That night, outside the laundry entrance, Saxon found Charley Long waiting. As he stepped forward to greet her and walk alongside, she felt the sickening palpitation that he had so thoroughly taught her to know.
Accompanied by Lena, I hurried away to Third Avenue. The laundry was near Twenty-seventh Street. As we approached I grew troubled and unaccountably expectant. When we reached it I understood my excitement and instantly became calm. For there stood Miss Oliver, gazing like one under a spell through the lighted window-panes into the narrow shop where the owner bent over his ironing.
Soap, starch, water, and bluing have their composite qualities and are analyzed, and no more interesting correlation is there than that of the laundry with the class-room. Although each Tuskegee girl is expected to become proficient in one trade at least, all are required to attend the cooking classes.
That makes thirty-two handkerchiefs, Madame Bijard; and two more, thirty-four." But Coupeau was not sleepy. He stood there wagging his body from side to side like the pendulum of a clock and chuckling in an obstinate and teasing manner. Gervaise, wanting to finish with Madame Bijard, called to Clemence to count the laundry while she made the list.
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