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Show Old Men Washerwomen. Setting up in the laundry business is so simple that several old men In London Lon-don these days of the suffragettes art turning Into washerwomen. They buy an outfit of tubs, washboards, soap, starch, bleaches, flatirons and ironing boards. Then all they have to do is to go out and gather In the dirty linen. Some of the poor old men wash everything from stockings to shirt waists, making collars and cuffs look like those laundered at home. Others, not so skillful, draw the line on starched stuff and make a specialty of underwear, handkerchiefs, socks, soft shirts, nightgowns and pajamas. These old fellows do the work in their one living room, and make three to four dolars a week out of it, mayb more, If expert. |