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Show ANOTHER OF WAR'S RESULTS Direct Connection Traced Between Great Conflict and the Annoying Scarcity of Laundresses. Ihis is from Alexandria, our neighboring neigh-boring city down the Potomac. Housekeepers there are having quite a time getting "help," especially some one to do the family wash. The necessity ne-cessity for clean clothes Is one which devolves upon civilized beings. Wars may come and wars may go, but the washtub aud washboard go on forever. Hut it has been hard to get a laundress laun-dress In Alexandria. War-time conditions condi-tions have enabled many who earned their living at the tub to turn to less arduous pursuits, with the result that there Is a scarcity of "wash Indies." The condition is one paralleled In Mary other cities. "Aunt Lucy," said one Alexandrian woman, addressing a colored womai. whom she hnd known for many years, "don't you know some one who can do my washing?" "No, ma'am I don't know no one," she said. The woman made a last attempt. "Won't you do It for me, Aunt Lucy?" she asked, with a winning smile. " 'Deed, chile," said Aunt Lucy, "I don't have to do no washing no more." "Why?" asked the woman. "Well, honey, hit Is jes like this," explained Aunt Lucy with a nice distinction dis-tinction : "De Civil war made us free. And dis here worl' war has made us Independent." Washington Star. |