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Laundry Day

Before modern times, there was always a day sit aside to wash clothes. I almost feel guilty now that even I'm doing laundry. There is not really much to it. To separate the colors and the load on a machine that does everything for you. Similarly, the drying process is still easier. In fact, my clothes are doing for me in the machine as I write. The only task is folding, hanging and storing clothes. Ironing board, so Ironing in this house as we go. Or, in some cases you just throw the product back on the machine to de-wrinkle for us. However, in the old days Laundry was different, a tedious task that one day aside to sit.

I have always lived more primitive than most. During Twenty-five years had only water tank from the rain and heat in winter from two wood stoves. So I can relate only a hint how Sally must have lived, but only an indication. Even with a tank, we had running water. Sally can not afford running water.

Output is Sally Barnes, a woman born into slavery in Carter County in 1858. I had the good fortune of meeting her when she was eight. No, I'm not that old, but still enough to have known her. She died at age 110 in 1969. Driven by memories of her and her audience both for the elderly who have been investigating his life for a little over a year trying to fill the gaps.

When we moved here in late 1970 - to the farm, there was a pump house next to the house. This small house basically served as the home box to the pump that pumps water into the tank inside the house was built on the pump. This also served as the laundry room. There was an old wringer washing machine there, it looked pretty complicated to me. Only in the back of the pump house had two steel posts in the forms of "T wire hanging on. I grew up watching my mother hanging clothes on nice sunny days though had a dryer. Always smelled fresh. Who does not remember the freshness of his mother's clothes? Now, add chemicals to the illusion of freshness.

Well, it goes without saying that the idea will not wringer washer or a washing line. I did not even I have a clothespin. Moreover, the idea of leaving a warm and cozy, wood house fire with heating, in winter, to go to another building laundry was not attractive at all. This was enough to leave the wood to add to the fire. Although I do not like the idea of managing wet clothes in freezing temperatures, I dread even more the idea of what might get into the pump house in one day hot summer. So I went to the modern route despite warnings from my mother that we would have enough water to operate a washing machine. Given rainfall and check the water level every two days in the tank always got. In times of drought is always presented to the doors of my mother with my clothes.

Wringer washers addition can be dangerous. I've heard stories of broken arms and long hair getting caught in the wringer. Perhaps this is one reason why women in the past always wore her hair back, or breads.

Sally's life was a bit more complicated. I doubt if Sally was his life so complicated. After everything that does not really miss the comforts that have not experienced. They said they always did the laundry in the back porch in Lewis County. She used the old wringer washer and hung the clothes in the backyard, which caught the breeze of the river Ohio, which was only across the field. It was an art of using washers fashion. A certain amount of force was involved, and the ability and time to get your fingers caught in the wringer device. Everything about them was manual. There were two tubs, one for washing and another for rinsing. The water must be heated and fed by hand in tubs or running away from an outside faucet through a hose. Shavings of soap, made with a bar of soap and a knife, spread and mixed in a tub for cleaning the foam. The clothes are fed through the wringer, resembling two large rolling pin to remove excess water.

Washers first appeared in 1900 and has evolved over time. The former were the crank devices with a flywheel to help with the agitation of the clothing. By the power of 1920 were available. Nationally, gasoline engine work. This Sally is how did the laundry for almost fifty years.

One of the factors that alleviate the burden of laundry on the day was that people had less clothing at the time. I was told that Sally had the same pink dress to church on most Sunday in his later years. When I was young was her red silk dress days of the church. This was the case with most people. Also, the clothes are not washed as often as now. Worked Workwear all week and wash once a week, not every use, as now. You had your team during the week and Sunday or dress suit. Sally Day in closets and dressers are the clothes people of property. Cabinets came later in the houses. Then entire rooms were designated as dressing rooms. Then came the storage units. Therefore, in a sense that life was much simpler with respect to the possessions of the people.

Laundry day in the summer was not for clothes. While Sally worked on the back porch with clothing in the 1930s, 40 to early 50's, the neighborhood children had bars of soap and bathing in the stream, on the other side of the house of Sally. Afterwards, they were likely to end up watching Sally and help their homework was done, waiting for candy that had reserved for them. One lady told me that she and the other children loved growing up Miss Sally, who always had biscuits and jam it would give to them.

This washer wringer antique household was disappearing to be replaced by newer versions of the 1960's. The veterans were reluctant to give up them. In many respects were more efficient, using less water and get clothes cleaner. Many people still had wells and cisterns for water supply and had to be conservative. Power output of water from a rainwater tank was collected. All modern conveniences are just at the end of life Sally.

Something that had long forgotten came to mind as I write this .... something like a déjà vu experience. John Hartford wrote and sang a song, "Good old electric washing machine Circa 1943 -." At one point, despite that country music was not my gender, being this was one of my favorites. It must have been with me for a reason - one of those synchronicities, speaking of something to come, perhaps the writing of this piece. I certainly I never thought I could write about the washing machines. It is our life panned out in the little details? Such esoteric questions laundry day!

The wringer washer used in recent years was of high technology taking into account the early days of washing clothes County Carter. In his early years he had clothes in the stream. No endless hand wringing before hanging clothes to dry. An elderly lady showed me the place where his mother used laundry. This stream fed into the same creek just a few miles away where Sally would first laundry is done and bathed as a girl in the 1860's. She would have just used rocks at first clothing blows against them to remove dirt. Then came the invention wash board - a wooden frame hand holds a piece of corrugated tin. These are merely decorative elements is now hanging on the walls of some restaurants and in the homes of collectors of antiques.

Before turning to Sally Lewis County took clothing of people in a job. A lady said Sally never met, but remember their elders talk about how Sally's clothes are carried in a basket on her head. I asked him if he paid for this service. The lady, said: "No, no, people had no money at the time. likely exchanged for food or whatever it takes."

Sally's work Hard not really start until coming to an end came to the nineties. Ted began to take over many domestic tasks like cleaning and cooking. Ted was the last clan to which Sally lived past Bonzo, who cared for him as a child. Sally probably insisted on working as much as I could for as long as he could. Work drive was a fact of life and seemed to be automatic for her. The day I met her one hundred and three years, was mopping the floor. Therefore, not carried away by laziness easily.

Other days were not so good. An older man, now ninety-one, tells how once when she visited Sally decided stay in bed. He gave her a box of chocolate covered cherries. She was happy, and said, "Ah, thanks Coon."
He said: "His memory was fading. "He laughed," She called Coon. Coon was what they called my father. "

The bell just rang the dryer. My clothes are carried out.

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