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Show I 'Bo on the Road or Housewife in the Model Laundry, Ifs AM the Same on Wash Day out in the Open, Sept. - .l ' Me rub my duds on a waih-I waih-I board .' Sh'd say nol' What d'yuh take I us 'boes for, anvhow?" Sir Knight of the Railroad Tie-proceeded Tie-proceeded lo demonstrate With llr 'eye of a connolseur he selected an old l.'-.rd can from a nearby dump. Aj the pump near the section man'. shanty, he filled the can with water, bulk a little fire on the ground, and set tho can of water over It to heat. ROME-MADE PLUNGER The next step In the operation was th seleotlon with the same degree of care, of a tomato can from the same source of supply the dump. With the deftness of long practice he twisted off what remained of the lid Turning the can upside down he punched holes In the bottom of it. and In the circumference circum-ference for a distance of two inche-" from the bottom. A stick about three feet long eon veniently came lo hand anil wis wedged info the can. By this time the water was hot. He took off what part of his baggage" he consldi red to he In urgent need of treatment and tossed it Into the lard ran. Some flakes of laundrv soap he chipped off with his Jackknlfe Then With the three-foot three-foot stick, he began to work the perforated per-forated tomato an up and down In the lard can. sloshing ho clothes through the suds. A washing machine no less! Vow Mrs Housewife does the same thing She rebels from th washboard too She gets her a washing mai bine The only difference is the price anil the eleriric motor instead of the hobo's ho-bo's "elbow ' energy. r A NEW IDE V Somebody asked thl hobo In question, ques-tion, at his transient Job with the rail road construction gang where he got the Idea who Invented his "washing machine " He dtdnf know. "I've been In this game.' he said, "more'n 30 years, and it was an old rug when I started. " N'oi all modern electric washing machines use this same idea There are many which tw th clothes back nnd forth through the hot suds villi various movements Rut among th'-most th'-most popular are those which depend upon a plunger either to Uan.se the Tin- onlj differ lice I SCins to be the l Plot and the electric motor Instead Of "elbow" e:iTg. clothes by friction, or by the use of vacuum cupc which go up and down through the water. The force of the vacuum takes ihe place of friction. So while Mrs. Housewife in her modern laundry turns on the switch; or presses the button " Sir Knight of the Road and the Railroad Ties, turns on the switch- to his "elbow'' power nnd churns the tomato can up and down in the lard can And Ihcy both wash their clothes. |