the carpet beater we called "TRAPATCHKA"
IS THIS NAME KNOWN ALSO BY OTHERS OR
WAS IT A PARTICULAR NAME IN OUR FAMILY?
Paul Heger
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:59 PM, veni vici <venivici_at_inbox.com> wrote:
> 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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