Show WASHERWOMEN AMASS FORTUNES fA nuu Oc Oft Oct t. t 3 The The laundry worn- worn of Madrid are probably the finest st their profession in the world Ns X Nacre Na N s sere ere else does the thi lIn linen n come hone hon clean b and it Is all ac- ac i d with cold water of tin tin- indo 8 of or KIn Alfonso Alfonso's 3 n t Ab n i week lIng l- l lug Ing Sundays may be seers ean a acre re after l' l acre of linen spread out tut to dr dry along the banks oC of the Man- Man In the tU turbulent bulent wafers ra ot of 1 I this creek for It is nothing more mor in spite of oC its sonorous name virtually Jally I all the for the million or 10 w Inhabitants of Madrid is done cone i iA A closer corporation than that of I Ithe the Madrid washerwomen can caa scarcely scarcely scarce scarce- ly be Some ome of those worling work work- ing ins here have been in the profession over fort forty years not always as past- past mistresses for they have to s serve an apprenticeship lasting nany years before be be- fore tore they are permitted to undertake work on their own account A woeful reception meets s any newcomer w coming m I n t. Ih t n t line Uno to wash All ti I i. i ip oj ui at In insults are hurled at h. h p b 1 y- y the regulars r her linen disappears is gs s sIf If b magic and is found again only after Jong ong search Any man not l anI an I ordinary dirty linen porter is In even oven I I worse case He Is splashed with will suds and is lucky if he escapes with his I II I clothing intact I The experienced laundry women assert as assert as- as sert sect no woman learns how to wash properly until she has passed forty I years ears of age Till then she must work as understudy to the others earning only the small pittance of 1 dally daily while doing so When she sets up for tor herself she at once takes apprentices I and rapidly amasses a modest fortune It s seems ems however they hey never neer retire to enjoy their riches for tor the call calI of the tub tuh i ia is too strong for them ever to Manzanares Manzanare a anar U r th final call tall comes A a I 1 |