RE: [Cz-L] RE: czernowitz-l digest: May 08, 2010

What I remember is washing hanging on a line on the balcony, and
occasionally carpets being hung over the edge and beaten with a
"trapatchka". I wonder what the people below the clouds of falling dust
thought about it! Cornel

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Subject: [Cz-L] RE: czernowitz-l digest: May 08, 2010

Re laundry. I must applaud and congratulate Mimi and Hardy and all on their
excellent memory (while also expressing my envy.) I rack my brain as much
as I can but can't conjure up pictures of laundry. I do recall the irons
into which we put coals but I may have seen such irons left around by folks
in Canada after we landed here in the summer of '39. Your mentions of a
washer-woman coming periodically rings vague bells but too vague to form
mental pictures.

I do recall my mother buying a "mangler" after we landed in Canada - a large
sheet-pressing machine that worked a bit like a newspaper's printing machine
with huge rollers into which bed sheets were fed to be pressed.

What I do recall from Cz is a section of our garden that was fenced off as a
working area. The servants would hang carpets there on a bar and beat them
with carpet beaters made out of wooden reeds.

When we give it some thought, we lived in a much cleaner environment in
those days and probably wore cleaner clothes. And dressing "properly" gave
us self respect and probably promoted better behavior. When I look around
today in most of the world, I see regression in all of these positive
aspects of life...perhaps even in the primitive, pre-technology way of
ironing which created more employment.

Andy Halmay,

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