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Show Primitive Methods of Washing. At Edinburgh the poorer classes still do their weekly laundering as it was done years ago. They convey their washing to the river, dump it into large tubs aud fill their tubs with water that has been heated in huge public kettles. Then the women pull off their shoes and stockings, and, holding their skirts well tip about their waists, get into the tubs and tread on the steaming liwen, thereby there-by squeezing all the dirt out of the several sev-eral pieces. This is so common a spectacle spec-tacle that the natives puy no regard to it at all, but visitors seem to consider it as one of the sights of Edinburgh, and but for the activity of the police the river-aide river-aide wonld be thronged with impertinent imperti-nent strangers every wash day. Eugen Fiold in Chicago News. ' :-' '''''' ;' : , ,' I'.'' '. |