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Show What more can a washer do? p.g. blab liMlillili It did a fine job. ; In recent weeks, the waterway, completely draining .out of the ,!? By switching it to a different eve , was able to get it to drain and si dry. This method only lasted a or so though, and last Wednesday would not drain on any cycle My husband took it apart to sh it was fixable. He patiently sh0L me that there was a lot more wron than just the pump. It was almost ! replay of when we had to give Un B Red. The good service of the wash!8 over the past 21 years came to 2 mind, and I hung my head as silently nodded that the washer nJ go. It didn't take long to choose a ne washer. You might as well keen going with a winner. It arrive today. It's a good thing because wiS three children at home, two of whom are teenage girls, the washing pfe up kind of fast. You may be getting tired of mv eulogies to our car and now to our washer, but it has been like a good friend, faithful to the end. It is hard .to let it go. In conclusion, all I can say is I m glad it held out until the missionary was home before calling it a day Hurray, for the old washer. How can we get so attached to machines? diapers. Remember how they had to be flushed, soaked, pre-soaked, and washed with a good detergent and whitener and then rinsed and re-rinsed re-rinsed so that baby didn't get a sore bottom? Our trips to the sand dunes were always a special occasion but the washer did suffer after each of the trips. Sand filled every weave in the kids clothes and even after shaking them out good there was still always the grit of sand in the bottom of the washer when the cycle was over. Clothes from the sand dunes usually had to be washed twice. It was not the washer's fault. It did it's best with a mammoth chore. Boys have a way of sliding on their knees or on their side which leaves their jeans in sad shape. There are grass stains, blood stains, bug stains and food stains to wash out of jeans. Men and boys use their shirts and jeans for rags to wipe their hands on after baiting a fishing hook, after removing a fish from a hook, when working on the car, when pulling weeds, or after sliding into third: The good old washer took care of it all. With equal agility, it handled with care the dainty undies, nightgowns, nice blouses and frilly dresses of the females in the family. By MARCELLA WALKER Well, after 21 years our washer has died. It owed us nothing. The once-lovely, bronze Lady Kenmore has more than done its duty. It has survived the onslaught of five children, plus parents. It has survived sur-vived diapers, Levi's and old sneakers. What more can a washer do? We bought the washer in January of 1965. We were expecting our third child. We have only had two washers in all of our married life. The first was a used GE which we purchased when our first child was born. One day, in January 1965, it gave up the ghost. Water began running everywhere and I had no idea where to turn the water off. By the time I got a neighbor to come to the rescue, there was a considerable amount of water to clean up. The new washer was a godsend. It had a defective pump, however, and while it was still under warranty we had to have a new pump put in. We have never had to do a thing to it since, except our service contract allowed a yearly checkup and it got greased and oiled annually until we ,gave up the service contract when the washer was about 14 years old. The washer has seen a lot of miles. I remember the time I was sorting the clothes and checked the pockets in my young son's Levis and found dead worms. When questioned, he told me he was saving them to go fishing with Dad. The shriveled and very dead worms would not have made good bait, I'm afraid. That washer cleaned a lot of diapers'. When the children were small we only used disposable diapers on trips and stuff like that. The rest of the time we used cloth |